The National Archives is required by law to wait seventy-two years before making the actual census forms public, which means that every ten years genealogists get an enormous infusion of fresh data to pore over for clues to family history — name, race, education, occupation, place of birth, and location, as well as who lived in the house, including servants.
Before you can say "obsessive-compulsive disorder" or look up apophenia (the experience of seeing connections where none exist), Walter finds himself seeing the number 23 in every combination everywhere he turns: indoors and out, on street signs and in his personal history, name and anniversaries.
Two questions required users to assess a single patient's history ("Name the symptoms that have gotten worse since patient x's last visit" and "For patient x, which symptom has been at or above the critical threshold throughout the recording period?").
In one of the great twists of twists, Commissioner David Stern, who originally handed Sprewell the longest suspension in league history, named him to the team.
(If you think about it, this doesn't do a bad job of explaining recent Stanley Cup history — names like Cam Ward and Nikolai Khabibulin come to mind).
With a picture of her son pinned to her chest, Mrs. Terry, 72, toured the Border Patrol station — only the second in the agency's history named after a fallen agent — on Tuesday.
This selection of drawings spanning six centuries has compelling works on paper by some of the more resonant names in Western art history, names like Tiepolo, Boucher, Ingres, Géricault, Beardsley, van Gogh, Mondrian and others.
The society will showcase elements of its permanent collection — including such star exhibits as George Washington's inaugural chair — in a new permanent installation, the Robert and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History, named after its principal donors.
Two Academic Chairs The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced the establishment of the ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. chair in American history, named for the distinguished historian, left, who was a member of the City University's faculty from 1966 to 1994.
But the people who live here have an unlikely ally: a soft-spoken professor of economic history named Mohammed El Faiz, who is on a mission to regreen the medina and wants to use the lessons of the past.
The Bank One Corporation, rocked by a series of management blunders and earnings shortfalls after one of the biggest mergers in banking history, named James Dimon as its chairman and chief executive yesterday.
