The Chicago Reader is a newspaper that is published in Chicago, Illinois, in the US. It is a tabloid. It was founded by college students from Carleton College in 1971.
Dewey Defeats Truman
"Dewey Defeats Truman" was a famously incorrect headline on the front page of the "Chicago Tribune". It was published on November 3, 1948.
It happened the day after incumbent United States President Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over Republican challenger and Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
Savings and loan crisis
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 1,043 out of the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States. It lasted from 1986 to 1995. In 1996, the General Accounting Office estimated the total cost to be $160 billion, including $132.1 billion taken from taxpayers.
The man behind the crisis was Charles Keating. He was sentenced for his involvement of the crisis. Some people blame Ronald Reagan for the crisis because he signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which some might think was a direct result of the crisis.
Chinatown, Chicago
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. It is a ethnic neighborhood for Chinese cultures. This is the second oldest Chinatown behind, Chinatown, San Francisco.
Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi.
Lewis &amp; Clark College
Lewis & Clark College is a private university in Portland, Oregon. The school was formed in 1867, and has about 3,600 students, and about 150 teachers.
The college started in 1867 in Albany, Oregon as part of the Presbyterian Church. At that time is was called Albany Collegiate Institute. The first class graduated in 1873. In 1905 the school changed its name to Albany College and started giving Bachelor of Arts degrees. The school opened a campus in Portland in 1934. The Portland campus was very popular, so the school decided to move there. The school opened a much larger campus in Portland in 1942, and renamed the school Lewis & Clark College, to honor the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1966, the school stopped being part of a church and became a secular school.
In 2013 Lewis & Clark College had 2,039 undergraduate students and 1,553 graduate students. The school has 29 majors. The most popular major is Social Science. 64% of students who apply to the school are accepted. In 2013 tuition was $41,928 a year. 60% of students are female, and 40% of students are male. The school does not have any fraternities or sororities.
Some notable graduates of the school are:
Jim Bolger
James Brendan "Jim" Bolger (born 31 May 1935) is a New Zealand businessman and politician for the National Party. He was the 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand. He served as Prime Minister from 2 November 1990 to 8 December 1997.
Bolger was born in Opunake, Taranaki. He is a Roman Catholic and has been married to Joan Riddell since 1963. They have nine children.
Bill Henry
William Rodman "Bill" Henry (October 15, 1927 – April 11, 2014) was an American professional baseball left-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1952 and 1969. All the teams he played for were: the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, the Cincinnati Reds, the San Francisco Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Houston Astros. He was born in Alice, Texas.
Henry died from a heart attack on April 11, 2014 in Round Rock, Texas. He was 86.
Aracataca
Aracataca is a city in Magdalena, Columbia. The city is known for being the birthplace of Gabriel García Márquez.
Round Rock, Texas
Round Rock is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. As of 2010, 99,887 people live in Round Rock.
Aulis Rytkönen
Taavi Aulis Rytkönen (5 January 1929 – 16 April 2014) was a Finnish footballer. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952.
He was born in Karttula, Finland.
He played for Finland at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He also worked as national coach from 1975 to 1978. He was chosen Finland's Player of the Year in 1949, 1950, and 1952.
Rytkönen died in Helsinki, Finland, aged 85.
Karttula
Karttula used to be a city in Finland. It was merged with another city Kuopio in 2011.
Alice, Texas
Alice is a city and county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas.
Harry Brearley
Harry Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) was an English metallurgist who invented stainless steel, that is, steel which does not rust.
Brearley was born in Sheffield, England, the son of a steelworker and his wife. He left Woodside School at the age of twelve to enter as a labourer in his father's steelworks. Later he got the post of general assistant in the company's chemical laboratory.
For several years, in addition to his laboratory work, he studied to specialize in steel production techniques and related chemical analysis methods.
In 1908, two of Sheffield's principal steelmaking companies agreed to jointly finance a common research laboratory (Brown Firth Laboratories). Harry Brearley was asked to lead the project.
After leaving Brown Firth, Brearley joined Brown Bayley's Steel Works, also in Sheffield. He became a director of the firm in 1925.
In 1941 Brearley created a charitable trust The Freshgate Trust Foundation, a grantmaking charity operating in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
In the troubled years immediately before World War I, arms manufacturing increased greatly in the UK. There were problems due to erosion (excessive wear) of the internal surfaces of gun barrels. Brearley began to research new steels which could better resist the erosion caused by high temperatures. He began to add chromium to steel, which was known to raise the material’s melting point, as compared to the standard carbon steels.
The research concentrated on quantifying the effects of varying the levels of carbon (C, at concentrations around 0.2 weight %) and chromium (Cr, in the range of 6 to 15 weight %).
In order to do examine the alloys, a metal sample is treated. For a carbon steel, a dilute solution of nitric acid in alcohol is sufficient to produce the required effect. Brearley found that the new chromium steels were very resistant to chemical attack.
Up to that time carbon-steel knives rusted if they were not polished. Only expensive sterling silver or EPNS cutlery avoided the problem. With this in mind, Brearley tested his chromiun steel with food acids such as vinegar and lemon juice. The results were very promising.
At first, Brearley called the new alloy "rustless steel". The better-sounding "stainless steel" was suggested by Ernest Stuart, a local cutlery manufacturer.
The first true stainless steel, a 0.24wt% C, 12.8wt% Cr ferrous alloy, was produced by Brearley in an electric furnace on 13 August 1913. He was subsequently awarded the Iron and Steel Institute's Bessemer Gold Medal in 1920. The American Society for Metals gives the date for Brearley's creation of casting number 1008 (12.8% chromium, 0.44% manganese, 0.2% silicon, 0.24% carbon and 85.32% iron) as 20 August 1913.
Almost all research projects into stainless steels were interrupted by the 1914–18 War. The work was taken up again in the 1920s. Brearley had left the Brown Firth Laboratories in 1915, but the research continued under the direction of his successor, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. It is Hatfield who is credited with the development, in 1924, of a stainless steel which even today is probably the widest-used alloy of this type, the so-called "18/8", which in addition to chromium, includes nickel (Ni) in its composition (18wt% Cr, 8wt% Ni).
Reigate
Reigate is a town in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England. About 22,000 people live in the town. Reigate's postcode is RH2.
Karachi-Bela Division
Karachi-Bela Division (Urdu:کراچی-بلا) was a former Administrative division of Pakistan. It used to be part of the Las Bela (princely state).
Into the Storm (2014 movie)