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The institute was founded in January 1977 in San Francisco, California; [ 1 ] named at the suggestion of cofounder Rothbard after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. [ 8 ][ 9 ] In 1981, Murray Rothbard was removed from the Cato Institute by the board. [ 10 ]
US$412.66 million (2016) [1] Number of employees. 10,500 (January 2016) [2] Website. www.catofashions.com. The Cato Corporation is an American retailer of women's fashions and accessories. [3] The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. As of January 2016, the company operated 1,372 stores under the names Cato, Cato Plus, It's ...
Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (better known as Cato the Younger) (95–46 BC), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.
Johan Norberg. Johan Norberg (Swedish: [ˈjûːan ˈnûːrbærj]; born 1973) [1] is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, devoted to promoting economic globalization and what he describes as classical liberal positions. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001), Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016), and ...
Octavius Catto. Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, in a prominent mixed-race family, he moved north ...
Cato Networks was founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel by Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Checkpoint and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, a co-founder of networking company Incapsula. [2] [4] Cato was initially funded with a $20 million Series A from U.S. Venture Partners and Aspect Ventures. [5] Kramer became CEO, and Shatz became president and COO. [1]
De agri cultura[a] ([deː ˈaɡriː kʊlˈtuːraː]), also known as On Farming or On Agriculture, is a treatise on Roman agriculture by Cato the Elder. It is the oldest surviving work of Latin prose. Alexander Hugh McDonald, in his article for the Oxford Classical Dictionary, dated this essay's composition to about 160 BC and noted that "for ...
Marcus Porcius Cato (/ ˈkeɪtoʊ /, KAY-toe; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Latin: Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. [1] He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work on the history of ...