Engineer Richard Spikes received a patent for directional signals in cars. Tweet
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Quote Of The Day
“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” -Donna Hedges Tweet
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Jan Ernst Matzeliger invented a shoemaking machine that increased the speed of making shoes by 900%. In 1992, the United States made a postage stamp in his honor. Tweet
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“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” -Author Unknown Tweet
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“At one time a lot of us hoped that all it would take was to convince the white majority of the simple truth and justice of our cause, and the day of equality would dawn. That was the faith that created and sustained the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. The movement […]
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“Much of the hypocrisy of Americans on the subject of race seems to be unconscious. Perhaps self-deception would be a better word for it. Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. Whites are furious when they are accused of it, as the […]
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During World War II, Percy Julian created a fire-extinguishing foam, which put out oil and gasoline fires. He named his invention, “AeroFoam.” He created it from a soy protein. Tweet
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” -Barbara Jordan Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: Evergreen Contract
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, an Evergreen Contract is “a contract which renews itself from year to year in lieu of notice by one of the parties to the contrary.” Tweet
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