Parker, Dick
One great way to secure funding for an institution was to demonstrate that there was a need for one, and asylums may have seen the census as a way to do that. The New York Public Library Map showing, in five degrees of density, the distribution of the population of the United States,...
A March 2000 Census Bureau survey showed that Mexico accounted for more than a quarter of all foreign-born residents of the United States, the largest share for any country to contribute since 1890, when about 30 percent of the country's foreign-born population was from Germany. 选项: 答案...
This is the land of the Massa-adchu-es-et, the Nipmuc, and the Pawtucket, a place known in American history as Thoreau’s home, though he moved to Walden after a community of free Black people had already been homesteading there for decades. Jumping into deep water has been my favorite...
A March 2000 Census Bureau survey showed that Mexico accounted for more than a quarter of all foreign-born residents of the United States,the largest share for any country to contributesince 1890, when about 30 percent of the country's foreign-born population was from Germany. ...
However, there still had not been enough time for an appropriate gestation of the new reality. When Bishop Lamy arrived at Santa Fe to begin his new ministry, Juan Felipe Ortiz of Santa Fe–the Episcopal Vicar for Bishop Zubiria, explained that the clergy of New Mexico could not yet ...
At the same time there are personal changes happening at a psychological and spiritual level. Today, for the first time in human history, people who are interested in an inner life have access to every esoteric tradition in the world. Access to information about personal growth is enormous. ...
Iowa's climate is continental—northwest winds drive the mercury down below 0℉ (−18℃) in winter, and in the summer hot air masses bring oppressive heat; there are violent thunderstorms, hail, and occasional droughts. Floods have periodically inflicted great losses of life and property, nece...
The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population, so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data. The winner was Herman Hollerith, whose Punch Card Tabulating Machine used an electric curren...
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 hardly probable, but they will be so few as to be of very little importance. There are natural laws which would bri...