This became something of a game: What else has changed? What else isn't there anymore? I would repeat this intentional trip down memory lane more than 20 times during a two-week visit that summer to this commun
Is the Homestead Act still in effect? Does the federal Immigration Act commandeer the states? Did the Indian Wars negate treaties? Was there an 1880 census for Indian Territory? Did the Shawnee take back land after Dunmore's War? Did the Sioux fight the Blackfoot Indians? Did Oglala Lakota...
Prior to the establishment of the Spanish colony in 1565 CE, there is no indication that wheat was grown in or regularly brought to the Philippines, even though the grain was a fixture of Chinese and Japanese agriculture (Betts et al.2014:166; Crawford2011:S337-S339; Long et al.2018:274...
programs, but there wasn't enough memory to contain them all at the same time, then it was necessary to have some technique for storing the inactive programs. There was also the question of long-term archival; that is, being able to store programs and data for use sometime in the ...
The setting for this series is Laramie, Wyoming and the era the 1870s. Laramie had a population of 828 in the 1870 census and 2,696 in the 1880 census. The
Was there an 1880 census for Indian Territory? Was the East India Company real? Did the East India Company trade in the Caribbean? Was Nazi Germany an aristocracy? The Scythians and Xiongnu were [{Blank}] societies. Was the East India Company corrupt? Was the Code of Hammurabi Indian? Did...
It is interesting to know that there is some indication for killing cattle at a very advanced age. If the cattle was kept only for food purposes, the inhabitants would have killed these animals at an early age, possibly around the age of three when the meat is tender and in plenty. It...
In principle, there could be any number of intermediate levels, between the "sampled product" and the overall CPI. In practice, historical CPI series for periods earlier than a certain date—for the United States, series antedating World War I—omit several of the levels in the above ...
000 of them within the limits of the United States. In 1870, the number had dwindled to 383,000. In 1878, there were but 275,000, and the supervisors of the census, in 1880, will hardly report more than 250,000. At this ratio they would be extinct by A.D. 1900. This is ...
In the process of developing the series, various data sources for this purpose are described, considered, and assessed. These fall into three groups. First, there are consumer-expenditure surveys, which could emanate from the BLS, other government agencies, or private parties. Second, there are ...