Delaware

The Constitutional Convention rejected the absolute federal negative on June 8. Only the delegates from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia unanimously supported it. Delaware’s votes were evenly divided, and the other states voting (CT, NY, NJ, MD, NC, SC, and GA) all disapproved. This defeat, however, was not the end of the debate over the federal negative at the Convention. The limited version of the negative lived on in the working draft of the Constitution, which granted Congress the…

Nathaniel Grow wrote an article in Fangraphs (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-impending-battle-over-the-future-of-televised-baseball/) discussing a court case that could change the future of televised baseball and thus have a significant impact on MASN and the Orioles. As he explains in his article, the plaintiffs in this case — Garber v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball —, claim that MLB shouldn’t be allowed to assign its teams exclusive local broadcast territories and that every team…

place. In the real world many parents make sacrifices for their kids, such is the case for a mother in Delaware who decided to sell her baby for $15,000 in order to afford a trip to Disney World with her other children. Daily Mail Reporter writes “A mother accused of selling her newborn son for $15,000 to afford a trip to Disney World has pleaded guilty along with her baby's intending buyer. Delaware mother Bridget Wismer, 34,…

Edward Hicks was an active Quaker who had devoted much of his time using his paintings for religious purposes and the advancement of religion. Some of his work include The Residence of David Twining (1846), The Cornell Farm (1848), Washington at the Delaware (1849), Noah’s Ark (1846), and Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (1847). He is best known for the painting The Peaceable Kingdom (1834) and had been inspired by William Penn’s tract The Holy Experiment and the theme of its message. The painting…

large telecommunications company operating in Quebec and Ontario under the name Cogeco Cable Canada and in many parts in the United States under the Atlantic Broadband name such as Western Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Florida and Maryland/Delaware. It is the 11th largest cable operator in North America and is still growing. It provides two-way broadband fiber network services to most residential and business areas with…

Murdering Wilmington with “Murder Town” As chemical capital of the world, founding city of DuPont, Murder Town, tax-free area, and corporate base for 64% of Fortune 500’s top companies, Wilmington, Delaware possesses many monikers that generate interest in tourists. After all, what sane person would not enjoy a nice trip experiencing such a great corporate center? Even ABC desires a personal tour with its decision to produce the show “Murder Town”, stylized after the label resulting from the…

Make-a-Bed is a manufacturing and distributor plant which is located in three different States Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. The president of the firm wishes to contract a cost-effective method, which he deems potential through facility combination and streamlining of the manufacturing process. For this process to take place the company advertised for a consultant or industrial engineer to oversee. John saw this job opportunity and applied for it, with his conditions as a solo…

The movie Fight Club takes place in Wilmington, Delaware and starts off with a narrator, whose name is unknown, that works for an auto insurance company. He suffers from insomnia and his doctor refuses to prescribe him medication for it. Instead he suggests that he attends a support group for testicular cancer victims. Once the narrator attends the support group, he realized that it gives him some sort of emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He quickly becomes addicted to attending…

On May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education was decided unanimous by the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP’s chief counsel, argued the case before the Supreme Court. The decision was based upon the inherently unequal “separate but equal” clause and violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the court, also stating basing facilities upon race create inferiority among African American children that proved to be damaging to…

Many people in the early 1600’s to the 1900’s hunted on Sundays. However, Sunday hunting was banned over two-hundred years ago in 1903. Many citizens want to legalize Sunday hunting in West Virginia because people can fish, buy alcohol, and have picnics on Sunday’s, but cannot hunt on Sunday? Researchers say that is Sunday hunting is leagalized, decrease in church attendance will not happen. Also, large wildlife will increase duringthe years of Sunday hunting (“Kleek”.) In addition, people who…