Charles Mingus,born in Nogales, Arizona in 1922, was a bassist, pianist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist. He was one of the most important jazz composers of the 20th century. Kerri Struggymnast,Tucson US Famous People Learn history through the biographies of the famous people from your sta...
John C. Phillips, a Republican lawyer, defeated George Hunt in the 1928 election. His accomplishments include the following: establishing the Bureau of Criminal Identification; establishing free county libraries; and creating the Colorado River Commission. Like most Republicans in 1930, during the Great...
” They were married in London last June, Arizona in a 1930s-style bias-cut slip by Alice Temperley, the simplest dress the designer has ever made. “She didn’t want any ornamentation,” Temperley says. “It was all about their day, and marrying Boniface; she wanted the dress to be ...
A standout success was with the Boys State program, an American Legion initiative that started in the 1930s. In the past, managing registrations and collecting necessary information for this program was a cumbersome process involving paper forms and manual data entry. However, with the implementatio...
Researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) published their latest report. When men expressed their opinions with anger, people considered them more believable. But when women expressed anger, they were viewed as more emotional and, thus, less convincing. In other words, a man could benefit ...
In addition to tours, exhibits, stargazing and a chance to peer through historic telescopes, the observatory that discovered Pluto in 1930 is opening the new Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC) this fall. One of the most advanced astronomy centers anywhere on the planet, the ADC ...
Lewis Wayne Walker served as the associate director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum from 1954 to 1970. Walker had been exploring the Baja California Peninsula and the Gulf of California since the late 1930s and first visited Isla Rasa in 1946. Located approximately 640 km south of the head...
During the migrations, the people traveled back and forth throughout the area and used caves as food caches and for ceremony. The blowhole was an important power-seeking spot and would remain so today if it were not so accessible to the general public. The Zuni people continue to pray and...
In addition to tours, exhibits, stargazing and a chance to peer through historic telescopes, the observatory that discovered Pluto in 1930 is opening the new Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC) this fall. One of the most advanced astronomy centers anywhere on the planet, the ...
From extensive factual studies undertaken in the early 1930's, including the famous Wickersham Report to Congress by a Presidential Commission, it is clear that police violence and the "third degree" flourished at that time. [Footnote 5] [446] In a series of cases decided by this Court long...