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BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Chester Dawson |
Kiichiro And Eiji Toyoda: Blazing The Toyota Way The two cousins thought they had the makings of a great company. But on that day in 1938 when Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Corp., instructed his understudy, Eiji, to build a factory, neither realized they were about to make history.   |
D-Lib
May 2004
Jeanette Zerneke |
D-Lib Featured Collection May 2004: ECAI Iraq Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) constructed a website to bring together the available digital cultural heritage resources on Iraq, that covers a 10,000-year period of history, and includes profiles of 70 major historic sites and 50 empires and eras. |
Science News
May 15, 2004 |
From the May 12, 1934, issue Dean of American Medicine Defined New Public Health... New Thymus-Gland Extract Speeds Sex and Growth... Triple-Weight Hydrogen Made From Deuterium Atoms... |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2004 |
Wall Street's Origins Yes, there used to be a wall on Wall Street. Learn the history of Wall Street and how it got its name. |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Walt Disney: He Built A Better Mouse "Never forget that it all started with a mouse," Walt Disney was fond of saying, and in a sense that was true: The company that today bears his name rose to prominence with Mickey Mouse, a character the onetime commercial artist first sketched on a 1928 train trip from New York to Los Angeles. |
Science News
May 8, 2004 |
From the May 5, 1934, issue Big Pipes Are Used in Boulder Canyon Project... Chemical Barrier Holds Toxin From Reaching the Brain... Remote Volcanic Eruptions May Affect Weather... |
Civil War Times
May 7, 2004
Edward G. Longacre |
Major General J.E.B. Stuart: Last Stand of the Last Knight Major General J.E.B. Stuart posted his horsemen at Yellow Tavern -- between Union attackers and Richmond -- and waited for the collision. It would come with a deadliness he could never have imagined. |
Civil War Times
May 7, 2004
Howard Westwood |
Mr. Smalls: A Slave No More When opportunity knocked, an imaginative Charleston slave sailed himself, his family, and some friends to freedom -- and set to work for the Union cause. |
Reason
May 2004
Amy H. Sturgis |
Not the Same Old Hickory The contested legacy of Andrew Jackson: Commentary on the book, The Passions of Andrew Jackson. |
Reason
May 2004 |
25 Years Ago in Reason Qotes from 25 years ago: Surviving the Blackboard Jungle... Shooting Down the Conspiracy Theory... etc. |
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