Inauguration Day was moved to January 20, with the Oath of Office to be administered at noon, when Congress ratified the 20th constitutional amendment in 1933. Reasons cited included the improved roads and transportation, the unpredictability of March weather, and the desire to reduce the time tha...
On January 7, 1789, the electors were chosen for the firstU.S.presidential election. (George Washington was elected president on February 4.) By an act of Congress on January 23, 1845, the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November was designated Election Day for future presidential...
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If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison. A federal judge in April ruled him enough of a flight risk and danger to the community to deny his request for pretrial release.Behind Sabol’s visit to Washington in January was a belief in something that was not...
Diokno, a former chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, was one of the speakers in the webinar “Essential Truths on the Martial Law Years” hosted by the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission on Sept. 21, 2021. Times have changed and history is being...
See, 31 years and I’m still learning, too, to over-communicate. Also, none of this was taught nor do I see it discussed much in the world out there. I think Peter and I work not because we are opposites but because we make the other person want to become a better version of ...
A Historic Inauguration for our Community Ruby KatzFebruary 6, 2025Comment On January 24, in Annapolis, Dalya Attar (D) was sworn in as senator for the 41stDistrict in the Maryland State Senate. Previously a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, where she was the firstfrumperson to se...
made a stronger whole. I loved this vision for us. I knew we had problems. I was not blind to them. Rather, I chose to look away from them and instead naively believed we would overcome them someday. And I kept feeling maybe we were inching closer to that day. Lured by a glorious...
In a sea of lowest-common-denominator Chinese Yamaha clones and European and Japanese luxury scooters, Genuine stood out for their practicality, reliability, durability, and affordability. The last piece of the puzzle was the dealer network, and again, no one, even Piaggio, compared to McCaleb-...
Five years after Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight, Amelia Earhart became thesecond person to make the voyage. She was also the first woman to attempt the journey, flying from Newfoundland, Canada to Londonderry in Northern Ireland. In 1937, just five years after her historic journey, the...