Washington's National Park Fund was founded in 1993 by a group of enthusiastic parks people who wanted to establish support for our beautiful parks in Washington State. As a non-profit organization, the Fund is the official non-profit partner supporting Mount Rainer, North Cascades, and Olympic...
Over 100 years ago, the future leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), including Chen Duxiu, founded the first communist organization in Shanghai. At that time, many young people went to the office of La Jeunesse(《新青年》)magazine -the center of the New Culture Movement- to look...
Florence Realtor® and broker of Pee Dee Elite Realty, Keon Aldrich, has been named 2025 president of South Carolina REALTORS® (SCR). The historic nomination marks the first time a black… Read More Posted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: on-the-move, residential...
2. The Vjosa River,one of the last wild rivers in Europe,has been declared a national park by the Albanian government,making it the first wild river park on the continent. Home to more than 1,000 animal and plant species,the river flows for 270 kilometers,from Greece,through Albania and...
In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in several states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic ...
First postmaster of Santa Cruz; started the first foundry there; built the first wharf; founded the first Protestant church. Died in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Calif., August 15, 1905 (age 86 years, 258 days). Interment at Santa Cruz Memorial Park, Santa Cruz, Calif. John Porter ...
With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth ...
Equal Rights Party: 1872 Humanitarian Party: 1892 Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the United States. Woodhull was known for her radicalism as a woman suffrage activist and her role in a sex scandal involving a noted preacher of the time, Henry Ward Beec...
People living near Nepal's Chitwan National Park. WWF said that it does not tolerate any brutality by its partners. “Human rights abuses are totally unacceptable and can never be justified in the name of conservation,” the charity said in a statement. But WWF has provided high-tech enforce...
where she founded a school for African-American girls. She advised several U.S. Presidents from Coolidge to Truman, serving as FDR’s advisor on minority affairs. A friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, she founded the National Council of Negro Women and served as the president of the National Associat...