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Daily Almanac for Thursday, December 23, 2021; Day 357 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. The transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor material, usually with at least three terminals for connection to an electronic circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor’s terminals controls the […]

Daily Almanac for Tuesday, December 21, 2021; Day 355 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangulargrid of white- and black-shaded squares. The game’s goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words […]

Daily Almanac for Monday, December 20, 2021; Day 354 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. ‘Sale of Louisiana’) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 […]

Daily Almanac for Saturday, December 18, 2021; Day 352 of the Year

COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18. It […]

Daily Almanac for Saturday, December 11, 2021; Day 345 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed “Joltin’ Joe“, “The Yankee Clipper” and “Joe D.” was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Sicilian Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one […]

Daily Almanac for Friday, December 10, 2021; Day 344 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Ralph Johnson Bunche (/bʌntʃ/; August 7, 1903 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. Among black Nobel laureates he is the first African […]

Daily Almanac for Thursday, December 9, 2021; Day 343 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS John Jacob “Jay” Berwanger (March 19, 1914 – June 26, 2002) was an American college football player and referee. He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the following year the award was renamed the Heisman Trophy); the trophy is awarded annually to the nation’s most […]

Daily Almanac for Wednesday, December 8, 2021; Day 342 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state that spanned Eurasia during its existence from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a federal union of multiple national republics; in practice its government and economy were highly centralized until its final years. The country was a one-party state (prior to 1990) governed by the Communist Party of […]

Daily Almanac for Sunday, November 5, 2021; Day 339 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested […]

Daily Almanac for Friday, December 3, 2021; Day 337 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Illinois (/ˌɪləˈnɔɪ/ (listen) IL-ə-NOY) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area. Chicago is the state’s largest city and the fifth largest city in North America, with the capital in Springfield, […]

Daily Almanac for Sunday, November 28, 2021; Day 332 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio “barn dance” on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.), it is the longest-running radio […]

Daily Almanac for Saturday, November 27, 2021; Day 331 of the Year

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Wilton Norman Chamberlain (/ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn/; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player who played as a center, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los […]