Founded in 1993, Netscape Navigator was the dominant web browser of the 1990s. At one point, the company had over 5,000 employees maintaining its application. However, Netscape was no match for Microsoft, which released Internet Explorer shortly after Netscape. By 1998, thecompany was acquiredby...
General Motors (GM) is an American multinational company founded in 1908. By the 1931 to early 2000s, GE was among the most successful companies in America, and yet as thefinancialcrisis hit in 2008, General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on June 8, 2009, after losing...
Founded in Harlem in 1948, Carver was once the “jewel in the crown” of Black American savings banks. WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Advertisement Toni Morrison’s new book, “The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations,” is divided into three sections: The Foreigners ...
Year: 1981 Polio survivor and punk rock singer Ian Dury was not impressed or amused when the United Nations designated 1981 as the "Year of the Disabled." In direct response to the superficial gesture, Dury and co-writer Chaz Jankel crafted this purposefully offensive tune. The BBC reacted ...
“In slightly more dangerous pursuits we clambered in the understructure of the old foot bridge which spanned the river from Main to Dorsey streets. An historic landmark, it was torn down in 1926 after the town hall fire. “In the winter we could al...
Carhartt beanie– I treated myself to a cashmere beanie one year (while it was on sale) and then lost it before the spring, so I replaced it the following year, and lost it again. I refused to buy another. I got one Carhartt beanie as a gift and then a second because I wanted an...
My first car was a 1964 Pontiac Lemans. Bought used for $450 is was the most beautiful vehicle I’d ever laid eyes on. Bucket seats and a three-speed on the floor made it a lot of fun to drive. The only problem was that here in North Dakota winters can get very cold, which this...
It happened just after midnight on Aug. 20, with the temperature hovering at around 80 degrees. The bullets hit 20-year-old Gregory Taylor while he sat in a brown Pontiac at the curb in the 5700 block of Cates Avenue. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Barnes Hospital. The other vict...
Kard was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris. The start-up raised €3 million in January this year from Kima Ventures, Jean-Pascal Beaufret, Jambu Palaniappan, Francis Nappez, Julien Lemoine, Jason Dorsey and David Amsellem. For its US service for teens, its waiting list is already ...
This period also coincided with the continued conquest of Indigenous people. It was a time of Indigenous people's resistance to colonial projects, including wars and shifting alliances, such as Pontiac's Rebellion and the Iroquois Confederacy. ...