Toronto is a prominent centre for music,[32] theatre,[33] motion picture production,[34] and television production,[35] and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media ou
however, was still a part of Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas until the conclusion of the Mexican–American War in 1848, when these lands were ceded to the United States. From 1812 to 1821, Kansas was part of the Missouri Territory. The Santa Fe...
with similar districts developing in the Black neighborhoods in East and North Nashville. In 1912, the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial and Normal School was moved to Jefferson Street.[31] The first Prince's Hot Chicken Shack originated at the corner of Jefferson Street and 28th Avenue...
In 1950, about 1,000 personnel were transferred from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Redstone Arsenal to form the Ordnance Guided Missile Center (OGMC). Central to this was a group of about 200 German scientists and engineers, led by Wernher von Braun; they had been brought from Nazi Germany to th...
[80] National Grid, Texas Instruments and Carlsberg.[81] In 1974, Princess Benedikte of Denmark opened Northampton's Carlsberg brewery, the first outside Denmark.[82] The University of Northampton is also a major employer, as is St Andrew's Healthcare, a national mental health charity. St ...
California. In 1962, Haggard completed his first single, "Skid Row," on Bakersfield's Tally label. In 1965, he went on to sign with Capitol Records.[95] Most of Haggard's early songs reflect his time spent in prison, farming, and working blue collar jobs in Southern California, including...
and Texas, as well as Missouri and Tennessee. Henry J. Kaiser's representatives recruited sharecroppers and tenant farmers from rural areas to work in his shipyards. African Americans were part of the Great Migration by which five million persons left the South, mostly for the West, from 1940...
Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, supervised the installation.[65] In September 2010, a sculpture of three giant light bulbs was erected in Brno, in front of the theatre.[66] The first Edison light bulbs in the Nordic countries were installed at the weaving hall of the Fin...