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The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and resting place of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States (1945–1953), his wife Bess and daughter Margaret, and is located on U.S. Highway 24 in Independence, Missouri. It was the first presidential library to be created under the provisions of ...
Gary J. Shapiro is an American author and lobbyist who is the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association.Shapiro is the author of the books Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation (2019), Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses (William Morrow, 2013) and The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American ...
The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including ...
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. [1] He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. Shapiro served in the Pacific Theater as a United States Army company ...
The library also collects and maintains oral histories of the industry. History. The original research library (named the Academy Library) was established in 1928, a year after the founding of AMPAS. In 1936, Margaret Herrick began serving as the head librarian, holding her position until 1943. Dedicated to AMPAS' mission of broadening the film ...
"James Shapiro is the winner of the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2006", BBC Four. James Shapiro: Passion and Prejudice: The Lessons of Oberammergau Archived 2005-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, Great Lecture Library (biography; mp3-download available for a fee), July 15, 2002.
Astrophysics Source Code Library. The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is an online registry of scientist-written software used in astronomy or astrophysics research. The primary objective of the ASCL is to make the software used in research available for examination to improve the transparency of research. [1]
Shapiro was a founding member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in 1930 (AAPA) and between 1935 and 1939 served a term as its secretary and subsequently as vice-president (1941–42). He served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1948, and president of the American Ethnological Society from 1942 to ...