The 60-foot-wide wood, steel, and concrete structure known as the boardwalk in Atlantic City is about 4.5 miles long.
It continues on another two miles into Ventnor City, south of Atlantic City. The first boardwalk in Atlantic City was built in 1870.
Instituted in 1897 and celebrated on June 14, Flag Day marks the day in 1777 that the Continental Congress adopted the “Stars and Stripes” as the American flag.
The New York Times adopt the slogan, “All the news that’s fit to print” in 1896, when it was purchased by Chattanooga Times newspaper publisher Adolph Ochs. Known until 1857 as The New York Daily Times, it was founded in 1851 as a Whig newspaper. Under its first editor, Henry Jarvis Raymond, the Times was…
The practice of using economic means to achieve foreign policy goals is known as “dollar diplomacy”. It was first associated with President William Howard Taft (served 1909-13) and his Secretary of State Philander C. Knox.
During World War I (1917-18), Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the Navy.
It happened in 1913 by way of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard M. Nixon, and George Bush, are several vice presidents that have been elected president. This is besides those who first gained the office when their predecessors died or resigned.