Prices have fluctuated over time and the historical Census and Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) have meticulously documented the ebb and flow of the housing market. WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE 50 YEARS AGO IN AMERICA, COMPARED TO NOW IN 2024 Read on to see the average cost of homes in the deca...
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...
aged motherhood in the US has fueled an expansion of the state federal welfare system and brought cries for welfare reform from lawmakers. G. With its high rate of births, the US now ranks alongside Indonesia and parts of South America and only modestly ahead of Mexico, India, and ...
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...
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...
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...
aunts, and grandparents are there to step in. If a relationship between a father and a child ruptures, others can fill the breach. Extended families have more people to share the unexpected burdens—when a kid gets sick in the middle of the day or when an adult unexpectedly loses a job...
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. ...
2. Mitchell Mitchell (1908, pp. 63-88) describes his own series, acknowledging that his data source, the Weeks Report of the 1880 Census, "…is far from being an ideal source of information" (p. 65). Mitchell rejects all series in the Report that either are not expressly annual ...
The ABC was an electrical computer that used more than 300 vacuum tubes for digital computation, including binary math and Boolean logic, and had no CPU (Central Processing Unit) (was not programmable). On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC...