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Jackson Bunn October 19, 2017 Presidential Powers The date was June 17, 1972. One example of when a president used the powers that he has is when president Gerald Ford, he pardons former president Nixon. President Nixon had to resign because of the Watergate scandal, but because Nixon was a former president ford pardoned him. Some more information is that the Watergate scandal was when the president hired people to break into the Watergate Hotel where the democrats held all of their…

Did you know in 1938, Henry Ford accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the Nazi’s regime’s highest medal for a foreigner? Henry Ford may have been the first to make an affordable and reliable car for America, and many people looked up to him for it, so did the Nazi’s, but they looked up to him for a different reason. He wrote and published anti-Semitic writings. Henry also expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and Germany. Ford accepted many achievements, some were not ones that…

This is part of a whole week dedicated to a genre in this case I am going to write about documentaries and to be more specific I am going to to focus of one of the most prominent and important filmmakers of this genre. His movies are controversial and at the same time they have raised more money than any other maker of this craft. He is may be an unorthodox director, but he knows how to get across the message he wants to display. This was the first movie this mogul of documentaries did.…

MyDavey Bulletin – RC – Jeffrey Matheney – Nov/Dec 2016 Suggested Hed: TBD Art RC - Jeffrey Matheney 1.JPG Cutline: –After 33 years at Davey, Jeffrey Matheney retired on January 1st, 2015. Now, he spends his days making home improvements, dabbling in woodwork and riding his Harley. Growing up on a tree farm in Indiana, Jeffrey Matheney planted his first sapling when he was only five years old. At that moment, with his hands covered in dirt, Matheny knew he wanted to work outside for the rest…

The story of bicycling in the United States begins in the years just after the Civil War. In the mid-1860s, French mechanics working in blacksmith and carriage shops helped develop machines known as “velocipedes” (from the Latin words velox pedis, or “swift of foot”). Early champions hailed the new technology largely for its utility. Calling it the new “poor man’s horse,” such early “velocipedestrians” promised an end to transportation dependency. The new machines gave individuals a safe,…

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1. J.P. Morgan- He was a banker who brought stability and rationality to the national economy. He integrated railroads, insurance companies, and banks to make business run with more ease. John D. Rockefeller- He was a an oil tycoon who created his monopoly by taking control of all of his competition. Andrew Carnegie- He made his fortune by incorporating the Bessemer Steel Process into his steel manufacturing business. He donated a university, because he believed it…

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The invention of the car was the innovation of the horse drawn buggies that people in the 1800's used. The first car was a three-wheeled motorized vehicle patented by Karl Benz. It was called the Motorwagen, which had its own throttle system, spark plugs, gear shifters, a water radiator, a carburetor and other fundamentals to the automobile. Karl Benz based his invention of the car from other transport inventions. Although Karl invented the first car, there were so many other inventions that…

“I was 22 years old when it happened, and when you’re 22 years old, politics don’t really mean a whole lot to you. I didn’t really understand what Watergate was about, I basically just knew that the Republicans broke into the Democratic National Headquarters during election time in 1972. I remember that when the hearings were going on that I was driving back from Florida and listening to the hearings on the radio, just trying to understand what I was even hearing. At the time of Nixon resigning,…