From what university was Timothy Leary fired?
Timothy Leary was fired from Harvard.
He and fellow professor Richard Alpert were fired for LSD experiments with students.
The following are on denominations of U.S. paper currency: One dollar—George Washington Two dollars—Thomas Jefferson Five dollars—Abraham Lincoln Ten dollars—Alexander Hamilton Twenty dollars—Andrew Jackson Fifty dollars—Ulysses S. Grant One hundred dollars—Benjamin Franklin
The State of Tennessee, represented by prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, won its 1925 case against John Thomas Scopes in the Scopes trial. John Thomas Scopes was a high-school biology teacher charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution. Despite the efforts of defense attorney Clarence Darrow, Scopes was convicted and fined $100. However, an appeals…
The emergency communications link, also called “hot line”, between Washington and Moscow was installed in 1963 to reduce the possibility of accidental nuclear war.
Although John F. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes to Nixon’s 219, the popular vote was very close. Kennedy won by 118,550 votes, which represented 2/10 of 1 percent of the popular vote.
During the Revolutionary War years, 90 percent of Americans were farmers. By World War II, the number had shrunk to 15 percent. Today fewer than 3 percent of the population are farmers.
William Howard Taft, at a top weight of 352 pounds was the heaviest U.S. president.