Chicago, Illinois - of Greenville to the United States for a military post. In 1803, Fort Dearborn was built and remained in use until 1837 except between 1812 and 1816 when it was destroyed in the Fort Dearbon Massacre dring the War of 1812. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated as a town with a population of 350. Chicago was granted a city charter by Illinois on March 4, 1837. The opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848, allowed shipping from the Great Lakes through Chicago to the Mississippi River and so to the Gulf of Mexico. The first rail line to Chicago, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad was completed the same year. Chicago would go on to become the transportation hub of the United States with.
Sears - Sears Sears, Roebuck and Company was founded in Chicago, Illinois as a catalog merchandizer in 1873. Their "stores" were more akin to pickup centers than actually places to shop, though it was possible in larger outlets to do so. The primary vending method was to send catalogs to huge lists of people. These customers would order items, which would then be sent by mail or parcel post, or other shippers for larger items, directly to the home or business of the consumer. Or the items could be picked up at the Sears Store in a nearby town. The Sears, Roebuck catalog was sometimes referred to as "the Consumers' Bible." The catalog also entered the language, particular of rural dwellers, as a euphamism for toilet paper. In.
J.D. Tippit - was assigned to the US 17th Airborne Division where he served until June 20 1946. Tippit was married to Marie Frances Gasaway on 26 December 1946 and had three children. That same year he went to work for the Dearborn Stove Company. He went to work for the Sears and Roebuck Company in March 1948 and worked in the installation department until September of 1949 when he moved to Lone Star, Texas and attempted cattle farming. He attended a Veterans Administration vocational training school at Bogata, Texas from January 1950 until June 1952. He was then hired by the Dallas Police Department as a patrolman on July 28 1952. He served capably and was cited for bravery in 1956 for his role in disarming a fugitive. On November 22, 1963 Tippit.
Donald J. Carty - Donald J. Carty was the chairman and CEO of AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, from 1998 to 2003. Born in Montreal, Canada, he attended Queen's University and Harvard Business School. He worked for Air Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway before joining American, although he returned to Air Canada from 1985 to 1987. At American, he served as controller, and later as executive vice president for finance and planning under CEO Bob Crandall. In April of 2003, Carty and his executive board struck a cost-cutting deal with American's labor unions, intended to mitigate AMR's upcoming $1 billion first-quarter loss. The deal unraveled several days later, when unions learned that AMR executives were keeping $41 million in retention bonuses. Several AMR board members, most notably University of Oklahoma president David.
Challenge Records - Records was a record label put out by the Sears-Roebuck Company. Issues were drawn from other labels in the late 1920s. Banner, Gennett and Paramount Records were drawn from; there were surely others. Sears also had the Silvertone label; and the same recording of "Black Bottom" by Joe Candullo & his Evergreens Orch. exists. Around 1929 Sears did away with Challenge and Silvertone, replacing them with Conqueror Records until World War II. List of record labels.
Conqueror Records - active from about 1926 through 1942. The label was sold through Sears Roebuck & Co and other chain stores and catalogues. The record sleeves state that the proper playing speed for Conqueror Records is 80 rpm. Conqueror was originally owned by the Plaza Music Company, then became part of the American Record Corporation family of labels. Most of the issues are of standard dance tunes and popular songs of the era, although there is also some interesting jazz, including recordings by Louis Armstrong. The audio fidelty of Conquerors is about average for the era, pressed in to somewhat below average shellac. List of record labels.
Theodore von Kármán - of the Aeronautical Institute at the University of Aachen. He stayed there until 1930 (interrupted by service in the Austro-Hungarian army 1915-1918, where he designed an early helicopter). Apprehensive about developments in Europe, in 1930 he accepted the directorship of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and emigrated to the United States. In 1936, with Frank Malina he founded a company Aerojet to manufacture JATO rocket motors. In 1944 he helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (now a part of NASA, and became the first chairmain of the Scientific Advisory Group in 1946, which studied aeronautical technologies for the Army Air Force. He also helped found AGARD, the NATO aerodynamics research oversight group (1951), the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (1956), the International Academy of Astronautics.
Culture of Japan - is more familiar in the West. Again in Japan, inter-relationships between people are heavily influenced by "obligation" and "duty" in a way that is no longer true in the more individualistic and free-wheeling West. Finally, generalised conceptions of morality and desirable behaviour are relatively under-developed in Japan, where particular obligations to family, school, friends tend to guide behaviour. (See Japanese customs.) Because of strong correlation between Japanese culture and language, the Japanese language has always played a significant role in Japanese culture. Nemawashi, for example, indicates consensus achieved through careful preparation. It reflects the harmony that is desired and respected within Japanese culture. Japanese popular culture Japanese popular culture not only reflects the attitudes and concerns of the present but also provides a link to the past. Popular films, television programs,.
Silver Spring, Maryland - spring. Culture Silver Spring hosts the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Culture Center, on Colesville Road. The theatre showcases American and Foreign Films. Discovery Communications, a company that has wielded considerable influence in cable and satellite programming, has its headquarters on the same street. Silver Spring has many churches, synagogues, temples, and other religious institutions. History The Blair and Lee families are irrefutably tied to Silver Spring's history. In 1840, Francis Preston Blair, with his daughter, Elizabeth, and his horse Selim discovered the spring, flowing with chips of mica. Two years later, the 20-room mansion Silver Spring was built on a 250-acre country homestead situated just outside of Washington, D.C By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair, who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln, and represented Dred Scott before the United.
Software engineering - resembles marketing, sociology, or voodoo, more than traditional engineering with its responsibilities to society at large and the perils of legal liability with failure to protect the public interest. Response: Every profession manages expectations, including all forms of engineering. This may happen at different levels. Software Engineering focuses on the immediate requirements, whereas other engineering fields tend to solve problems that are typically long-ranged. Moreover, "responsibility to the society" means meeting the expectations of the general public, which can be considered a customer. Poor Requirements: Criticism: The requirements for most projects are incomplete or inconsistent. Some customers have little previous experience in writing requirements for a software project. Other customers really do not know what they want, and say "I'll know it when I see it" (IKIWISI). Even experienced customers who.
Supertone Records - record label of the 1920s. Supertone records were marketed by Sears, Roebuck & Company. List of record labels This is a stub article. You can help improve it..
Robert Simpson (store founder) - Simpson started up his own store and in 1872 he opened a pioneer department store in Toronto that eventually expanded into a major national chain. In 1894, the company began issuing catalogues that are still produced today under the Sears (Sears-Roebuck) name. Originally the giant U.S. Sears company formed a partnership called Simpson-Sears but would later take over the complete operations. Robert Simpson died in 1897 and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto..
WLS - stand for World's Largest Store after its original owner, Sears, Roebuck. The station operates on an AM frequency of 890. It is now owned and operated by the radio division of the American Broadcasting Company. Sears opened the station in 1924 as a service to farmers and subsequently sold it to the Prairie Farmer Magazine, which continued that orientation through 1960. It was the scene of the American Barn Dance, which featured Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, and George Gobel, and which was second only to the Grand Ole Opry in presenting country music and humor. The station also experimented successfully in many forms of news broadcasting, including weather and crop reports. Its most famous news broadcast was the report of the Hindenburg disaster by Herbert Morrison. In 1960, the station became.
Morgan Stanley - split off from JP Morgan in order to comply with the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act. On February 5, 1997 the company announced a merger with Dean Witter Discover and Company, the spun-off financial services business of Sears Roebuck. The merged company was briefly known as "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover & Co. " until 1998 and then "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co." until late 2001. Philip J. Purcell, who had headed Dean Witter Discover, has been chairman and chief executive officer since the merger..
List of automobile manufacturers - Mercury Other US auto makers Ace Motor Corp AC Propulsion Aerocar Ajax Allen Allstate Ambassador American Electric American Motors American Voiturette Company Anderson Electric Car Company (later Detroit Electric) Anhut Motor Car Company Apperson Armstrong Electric Auburn Austin Automobile Avanti Baker Electric Beaver Bobbie Kar Briscoe Motor Company Briggs-Detroiter Brush Motor Car Company Buffalo Electric Chalmers Chandler Chaparral Checker Cab Church Cleveland Electric Clenet Cole Colonial Columbia Electric Columbia Motors Commerce Consolidated Motor Company Cord Automobile Courier Crawford Automobile Crosley Crow-Elkhart Cunningham Day Automobile Company Dayton Electric Davis Del Mar De Lorean Demotcar De Soto Detroit Automobile (1899-1901) Detroit-Dearborn Detroit Electric Diplomat Doble Dort Durant Duryea Duesenberg Electrakar Electric Carriage and Wagon Company (1896-1897) becomes Electric Vehicle Company Electric Vehicle Company (1897-1909) becomes Columbia Electrobat E-M-F Company Essex Everitt Excelsior Excaliber.
List of department stores - 6 Saudi Arabia 7 Spain 8 Sweden 9 Switzerland 10 United Kingdom 11 United States of America Canada Canadian Tire Eaton's - defunct 1999, acquired by Sears Canada Hudson's Bay Company - a.k.a "The Bay" Kmart - closed Canadian stores in 1998 Sears Simpson's - merged with Sears Towers - sold out to Zellers in 1990 Wal-Mart Woodwards - Western Canada, defunct 1993 Woolco - sold out to Wal-Mart in 1994 Woolworth - closed Canadian stores in 1992 Zellers Finland Stockmann,Helsinki Sokos,Helsinki Anttila,Helsinki France Le Bon Marche Galeries Lafayette Au Printemps La Samaritane Netherlands Bijenkorf (part of Vendex KBB) Hema (ditto) Vroom & Dreesmann (ditto) Puerto Rico Bargain Town New York Department Stores, known popularly as La New York. Saudi Arabia Al Hamada Spain Corte del Inglés Sweden Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm.
List of Indians - citizen) Mass Media Aniruddha Bahal, writer and Tehelka journalist Deepak Chaurasia, consulting editor and anchor, Doordarshan News M J Akbar, chief editor, Asian Age Prannoy Roy, president, NDTV Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, research coordinator, Doordarshan Sanjay Pugalia, director, STAR News Veer Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times Movies Also see: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners Directors Ismail Merchant, Producer and director, Howard's End Mani Ratnam - Anjali, Roja, Bombay, Dil Se Manoj Night Shyamalan - Sixth Sense, Signs Mira Nair - Salaam Bombay, Kama Sutra, Monsoon Wedding Raj Kapoor - Actor and Director, Awaara, Sangam, Shri 420, Mera Naam Joker Ram Gopal Varma - Rangeela, Satya, Company Satyajit Ray - Oscar for lifetime achievement, Pather Panchali Shekhar Kapoor - Masoom, Mr. India, Bandit Queen Shyam Benegal Subhash Ghai Actors Aamir Khan - Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak,.
List of Amiga games - Waves -- Altered Beast -- Alternate Reality -- Ambermoon -- Ambermoon -- Amberstar -- Amiga CD Football -- Amiga Karate -- Amnios -- Anarchy -- Anarchy -- Ancient Art of War in the Skies -- Ancient Battles -- Ancient Battles -- Ancient Domains of Mystery -- Andromeda Mission -- Another World -- Antago -- Antares -- Apache -- Apache Flight -- APB -- Apidya -- Apocalypse -- Apprentice -- Aquanaut -- Aquaventura -- Arabian Nights -- Arachnophobia -- Arcade ClassiX -- Arcade Fruit Machine -- Arcade Pool -- Archer Maclean's Pool -- Archipelagos -- Archon -- Archon 2 -- Arctic Fox -- Arena 2000 -- Arkanoid -- Arkanoid 2 -- Armada -- Armalyte -- Armour-Geddon -- Armour-Geddon 2 -- Army Moves -- Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation -- Arnie -- Arnie.
List of famous pairs - paired; the two lowest orders of angels. Christopher Columbus & Queen Isabel (colleagues) Click & Clack (colleagues; entertainers) ("the Tappet brothers") (Tom and Ray Magliosi) Coat & tie (proverbial/idiomatic; equipment; complementary) (The two required articles constituting formal dress) Conservative & Labour (opposing factions) Corned beef & Cabbage (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food) Proverbial lower-class Irish entree Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon (colleagues) (crossword puzzle authors) Crips & Bloods Pierre & Marie Curie (colleagues; couples; scientists) Currier & Ives (commercial partners) (lithographers) Cut & Paste (technical; complementary) Cyril & Methodius cytosine & thymine (complementary) (DNA base pair) D Dallas & Fort Worth (geographical; juxtapositions; twin cities) Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill Damon & Pythias (mythological/legendary; companions) Danger Mouse & Penfold David & Goliath (mythological/legendary; Biblical; rivals/opponents) Death & Taxes.
Houston, Texas - 1.5 1980's to Present Day 2 Geography and Climate 3 Demographics 4 Areas of the city 4.6 Suburbs 5 Transportation 5.7 Airports 5.8 List of Major Freeways 6 Economy 7 Famous Events 7.9 List of Major Companies 8 People and culture of Houston 8.10 List of famous and infamous people raised in Houston 9 Religion 10 Law and Government 10.11 List of Mayors 11 Historical Events 11.12 Murders and disasters 12 Sports Teams 13 Museums not located in the Museum District 14 Journalism 14.13 List of Newspapers 15 Education 15.14 Colleges and Universities 16 Houston in film and TV 17 External Links 18 Sources History Houston's Turbulent Beginning John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen were seeking to build a city right after the Texas Revolution. On August 1836, they purchased.
