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e. This page provides instructions and advice for setting up a new WikiProject and for using the various resources that community members have developed for organizing WikiProjects' efforts. A WikiProject is a group of people who want to work together to improve Wikipedia. The WikiProject is the people, not the pages they use to coordinate ...
t. e. Boy building a model airplane, Texas, 1942 (photograph by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration) " Do it yourself " (" DIY ") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals ...
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The Works Progress Administration ( WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [ 1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
The Harbor Development Commission, a joint advisory board set-up in 1917, recommended that a bi-state authority be established to oversee efficient economic development of the port district. [9] The Port of New York Authority was established on April 30, 1921, [10] through an interstate compact between the states of New Jersey and New York.
After more than two hours, Planning Board members decided they needed more time to discuss the long list of stipulations for approval of the project. 'Dark day in Bernardsville’s history:' Board ...
A bulletin board system ( BBS ), also called a computer bulletin board service ( CBBS ), [ 1] was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user could perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and ...
[2] On April 10, 1861, the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts signed a charter for the incorporation of the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Society of Natural History" which had been submitted by William Barton Rogers, a natural scientist. Rogers sought to establish a new form of higher education to address the ...
The Eugenics Board of North Carolina (EBNC) was a State Board of the U.S. state of North Carolina formed in July 1933 by the North Carolina State Legislature by the passage of House Bill 1013, entitled "An Act to Amend Chapter 34 of the Public Laws of 1929 of North Carolina Relating to the Sterilization of Persons Mentally Defective". [1]