The 1860 census of Cumberland County shows that John Buie and his family were living in Manchester, a mill village named after the great manufacturing city of northern Britain. All of Buie’s children, ages 6 to 19, were listed as “factory operatives” by the census taker, and must have...
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On June 18, the Permanent Appointment Act was signed into law and capped House membership at the level taken from the 1910 Census, and enacted a procedure to automatically reapportion House seats every 10 years. [Pictured: President Hoover addresses the House of Representatives on Feb. 22, ...
Forecasters expect La Niña to form in the coming months, but what does that mean for Texas? What is La Niña? According to NOAA, La Niña is the cooler phase of a weather pattern known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with El Niño being the warmer phase. La Niña de...
Census Bureau, California’s Hispanic population increased by 11 percent between 2010 and 2020 and now comprises over 39 percent of the state — a plurality. Meanwhile, the state’s Asian population increased by 25 percent, and now represents over 15 percent of the state (and this is not ...
Bloomfield, a town with a tiny population of 221 people (as of the 2010 census), recorded the state's most unbearably cold temperature in 1933. Normally, the average temperature during winter in the state ranges between 2 degrees to 12 degrees. ...
The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the Baby Boomers. The Silent Generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019...
What the table does not show is the reason why the responsible party undertook the survey. These reasons are discussed here. The 1929 survey was part of a study of consumption expenditures and savings in the aggregate and also disaggregated by area (urban families and rural families, with ...
Section I describes the structure of any CPI, in terms of the ingredients of the CPI. Section II describes the official U.S. CPI series, and section III does the same for unofficial—private or state—original series. Section IV establishes the criteria to be used to select component series...
As it turns out, nope, it's not. Because in order to tie Minnesota's All-Time Record Low, the mercury will have to dip all the way to 60 degrees BELOW ZERO. That's right, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Land of 10,000 (Frozen) Lakes was -60 F, which happened up ...