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The Supreme Court: Using Illegal Communication

Using Illegal CommunicationThe Supreme CourtFighting for FreedomsUsing Illegal CommunicationProtecting PornographyPreventing Children from Accessing Pornography on the InternetAllowing Cross…

Warren Avis Biography

businessmanDied: April 24, 2007 (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Best Known as: founder of Avis car rental company Founder of the Avis car rental chain, the second largest…

Cyrus Tang

entrepreneurBorn: 1930Birthplace: Chiangsu Province, China Tang moved to the United States in 1950 and attended Widener University and the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1960 he helped found…

Harvey Leibenstein

economistBorn: 1922Birthplace: Yanishpol, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. Having emigrated to Canada as a child, he attended Northwestern University to study economics then went on to teach at Illinois Institute…

Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr.

chemical engineerBorn: 2/3/1926Birthplace: Indianapolis, Ind. Virgil Trice earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University in 1945. He also received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from…

Bernard Oliver

Born: 1916 Pulse Code Modulation. Oliver and Shannon developed the first high-speed digital transmission system based on coded electronic pulses, making digital telephone systems and compact discs…

Claude Shannon

Born: 1916 Pulse Code Modulation. Oliver and Shannon developed the first high-speed digital transmission system based on coded electronic pulses, making digital telephone systems and compact discs…

Cloning Milestones

Scientists hope that the advances in the cloning process can bring back animals that are nearly extinct Cloned bull named Got AP Photo/I.Lopez 1938 Cloning envisioned…

America's Weird Museums

Curious Collections America's Weird museums by Laura Hayes Arts & Entertainment | American History Gruesome | Medical Marvels | Curious Collections | Really Weird Science Really…