Stephen Francis Lynch (born March 31, 1955) is an American politician. He has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. He is a Democrat representing Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
Lynch ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2013 special election for the U.S. Senate but lost to Ed Markey.
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist, economic historian and world-systems analyst. His best known works helped developed the world-systems approach. He published bimonthly commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.
He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019.
Wang Buxuan
Wang Buxuan (5 February 1922 – 31 August 2019), also known as Bu-Xuan Wang and Pu-Hsuan Wang, was a Chinese thermal physicist and educator. He was known for engineering thermodynamics in China. He created the engineering thermodynamics program at Tsinghua University in 1957. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Ali Wong
Alexandra Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American actress, comedian, producer, and writer. She is known for her Netflix stand-up specials "Baby Cobra" and "Hard Knock Wife," as well as her television appearances in "American Housewife", "Are You There, Chelsea?", "Inside Amy Schumer", and "Black Box".
She also wrote for the first three seasons of the sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat". In 2019, she starred in "Always Be My Maybe".
Ramona, Oklahoma
Ramona is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.
Rosston, Oklahoma
Rosston is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.
West Hartford, Connecticut
West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is about west of downtown Hartford. The population was 63,268 at the 2010 census.
Simsbury, Connecticut
Simsbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 23,511 at the 2010 census.
Sant'Abbondio (disambiguation)
Sant'Abbondio is the name of two places in Europe:
Terlton, Oklahoma
Terlton is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.
Railroad classes
In the United States, railroads are Class I, II, or III, depending on how big they are. The Surface Transportation Board decides how big the railroads need to be to be in the classes.
There are six US Class I freight railroad companies. Canada has two Class I freight railroads. Both of the Canadian companies have trackage in the US. Mexico has two Class I freight railroads, one with trackage in the US. The national passenger railroads in the US and Canada, Amtrak and Via Rail, are both Class I.
In the United States, the Surface Transportation Board says a Class I railroad is a railroad that gets $250 million or more in revenue every year. It was 1991 when they said it had to be at least $250 million. In 2012, $452,653,248 is how much it would be. In 2011, the Association of American Railroads says that Class I railroads had to get at least $433.2 million.
In Canada, a Class I rail carrier is a company that has earned at least $250 million (CAD) in revenue for each of the previous two years.
Class I railroads are some of the most efficient kinds of transportation. They move a ton of freight almost 500 miles with each gallon of diesel fuel ( to move ).
In 2013, eleven railroads in North America were Class I. In the United States, Amtrak and seven freight railroads are Class I based on 2011 measurements released in 2013.
A Class II railroad in the United States takes freight and is mid-sized in terms of revenue. , a Class II railroad is a railroad with that earns more than $37.4 million but less than $433.2 million in revenue for at least three years in a row. Switching and terminal railroads are can't be Class II railroads.
A Class III railroad earns less than $20 million (1991 dollars) in revenue every year.
University Press of Kansas
The University Press of Kansas is a publisher in Lawrence, KS that represents the six state universities in the US state of Kansas: Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University (K-State), Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas (KU), and Wichita State University.
The press was created in 1946. There were big changes in 1967 and 1976. Today, it operates as a consortium with representation from each of the participating universities. The press is on the west part of the KU campus.
The press mostly publishes books about American politics and military history. They also publish books about the region around it.
Shivamogga
Shivamogga is the capital of the Shivamogga district in Karnataka. It was earlier called Shimoga.
It is located in India.
University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. It was created in 1941. The press is controlled by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Nebraska system. UNP mostly publishes non-fiction books and academic journals. They publish in both print and electronic editions. The press has strong publishing programs in Native American studies, Western American history, sports, world and national affairs, and military history.
UNP has published more than 4,000 books and 30 journals. They publish more than 150 new titles each year, making it the 12th biggest university press in the United States. Since 2010, two of UNP's books have received the Bancroft Prize, the highest honor given to history books in the U.S.
Missouri River Valley
The Missouri River Valley outlines where the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At long, the valley drains one-sixth of the United States. It is the longest river valley in North America. The valley in the Missouri River basin includes river bottoms and floodplains.
Mount Oread
Mount Oread is a hill in Lawrence, Kansas. The University of Kansas is on it. It is on the water divide between the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers. It was named after the Oread Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. The hill was first called Hogback Ridge by many Lawrence residents until the Oread name was chosen in 1866.
For emigrants going west by wagon train on the Oregon Trail, "The Hill" was the next big topographical challenge after crossing the Wakarusa River near today's Haskell Indian Nations University.
The United States Geological Survey says that Mount Oread is about above sea level. Downtown Lawrence is about above sea level. Mount Oread was whereWilliam Quantrill's raid into Lawrence on August 21, 1863, during the American Civil War, happened. The campus of the University of Kansas (KU) is on Mount Oread.
Samuel C. Pomeroy
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century. He was in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. Pomeroy was also in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.He also was the mayor of Atchison, Kansas from 1858 to 1859. He was also the second president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and the first president to oversee any of the railroad's construction and operations. Pomeroy succeeded Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the railroad on January 13, 1864. He was a Republican.
Samuel C. Pomeroy was born on January 3, 1816 at Southampton, Massachusetts. He was a student at Amherst College. Pomeroy was against the politics of slavery. In 1854, he joined the New England Emigrant Aid Company. That fall, he led a group of people to Kansas to help create the city of Lawrence.
On April 4, 1861, the Kansas legislature elected Pomeroy (along with James Lane) to be one of Kansas's first senators.