There was no mention of Easter. I also tried to locate any of the men he served with, by posting on Air Force message boards. No luck. I learned that many Air Force records had burned in 1973, in a fire at a huge federal archive in Saint Louis. The commanding officer of the 76...
Only 0.1% of Iowa, the lowest total in the 50 states, is owned by the federal government. Historically typical of Iowa was the prairie. Covered a little more than a century ago with grass higher than the wheels of the pioneers' prairie schooners, or covered wagons, the prairies gave way...
"It may, we think, be taken as a settled fact that by the commencement of the twentieth century, the Indian, especially in his nomadic condition, will have ceased to be a disturbing factor in the West. The tribes are diminishing in a very rapid ratio. In 1860, there were somewhat more...
there’s no extended family at Thanksgiving. It’s just a young father and mother and their son and daughter, eating turkey off trays in front of the television. In the final scene, the main character is living alone in a nursing home, wondering what happened. “In...
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 ...
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 ...
JGeocoder is a free, open source geocoder implemented in Java. It assigns geocoordinates to postal addresses using the Federal Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data. It was abandoned by Jay Liang in 2008 and resurrected by the New York State Senate in late 2012. ...
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 ...