Historic counties in the UK serve as a focus for local identity, and cultural institutions are often organized by historic counties.
The exception in both cases was the 2002 election, when Republicans under Bush’s leadership won the popular vote by 4.6 points — 4.3 points more than they had won it in the 2000 House elections. But the circumstances of that 2002 midterm election were extraordinary: One year after the Sept...
and specified that all years that can be divided by four are leap years, with the exception of century years, which would have to be divisible by 400 to be considered leap years — so while 2000 was a leap year, 2100 and 2200 will not be. ...
I realized it was a unique opportunity for me to have documented this historic moment, not about just any other person, but a successful American woman of color, the first female vice president of the U.S. These are photographs that I’m going to cherish for a very long time. On that...
A year ago today, I woke up, confirmed I hadn’t imagined the fresh hell of election night, and started sobbing. It broke me that the America my 3-year-old daughter was growing up in and that I was about to bring my unborn son into had endorsed Trump’s dark vision. I couldn’t...
the surprising 2019 presidential election in Argentina. Analysis of the raw and re-weighted data from longitudinal surveys performed before and after the elections reveals clear biases related to mis-representation of the population and, most importantly, to social-desirability biases, i.e., the ...
Central to the tradition is the community's size. Since it got its start in 1960, the voting bloc swelled to 37 people at its peak in the 1980s. Ahead of the election in 2020, with just four anticipated voters, a dispute arose about whether the process could move forward. ...
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Her father, Viktor Knavs, worked as a car salesman, and her mother, Amalija Knavs, was a children's clothing designer. "I think I can say [Novo Mesto] was too small for her," childhood friend Mirjana Jelancic told theAP. "Even as a child, she dreamed of moving," even saying that...
The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt signaled the start of one of the most transformative eras in American history. Elected on the promise of financial and social reform, FDR would go on to become the longest-serving president in history, the architect of the New Deal, the founder of Americ...