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Susan Francia: winner of gold medals as part of the women's 8-oared boat at 2008 Olympics and 2012 Olympics; Augustus Goetz (1904–1976), Penn College class of 1925 and Penn Law class of 1929: competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1928 Summer Olympics [204] [205] [206]
Charles Lindbergh, accompanied by his wife Anne, flew a Lockheed Model 8 Sirius from Los Angeles to New York in 14 hours, 45 minutes and 32 seconds, a new transcontinental record. [ 61 ] Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford , and her personal pilot C. D. Barnard completed a record-breaking flight of 9,000 miles in a Fokker F.VII , made from Lympne ...
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 [1] (26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7) is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce and consequently prohibits unfair monopolies. It was passed by Congress and is named for Senator John Sherman, its principal author.
In particular, women were given voting rights in local elections by Act no. 1580 on 3 April 1930 and a few years later, in 1934, full universal suffrage. [8] His government carried out a policy of Turkification, trying to create a homogeneous, unified and above all secular nation under the Turkish banner.
Agile practitioners use their free will to reduce the "leap of faith" that is needed before any evidence of value can be obtained. [41] Requirements and design are held to be emergent . Big up-front specifications would probably cause a lot of waste in such cases, i.e., are not economically sound.
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," [22] which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, [23] including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million.