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...House. The survey has also collected data on occupations, education and housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific: in 1850, data collectors were instructed to "ascertain if there be any person in the family deaf, dumb, idiotic, blind, insane, or pauper." The 1870 Census distinguished between farmers and "farm laborers" and between housekeepers and those just "keeping house." (Enumerators were also instructed to "use the word huckster in all cases where it applies.") Until the Civil War, surveys differentiated free people...
...That’s a pretty heavy thing to realize for a black person,” Gates said. “There are painful things and there are joyous things, but that’s what our past is, it’s a combination of tragedy and triumph...
Indeed, I confess that I dread seeing the human misery of Gaza in person, eating the contaminated and inferior food grown in a wrecked environment, drinking the saline, contaminated, and infected water, and walking through hospitals starved of medicines and surgical equipment. Research in a place like Gaza is inherently risky. But the work of academics like myself is important, both to me personally and to such disparate fields as public health and strategic analysis. I understand that travel to a land under siege and ruled by force is dangerous. But I accepted these risks. Why did the U.S. government...
Driscoll said he hopes that at least 200 people will come to Uno’s for the event tonight, which would garner $400 for Habitat if each person buys a $10 entrée. He pointed out that any drinks purchased during tonight’s karaoke time at Uno’s will also generate funds for Habitat...
...Josiah Quincy has this spirit about him and every single person who lives in this House feels it,” said Quincy resident Honor S. W. McGee ’10. “He took a stand and said ‘get your act together,’ and so we proudly eat cake and celebrate his life...