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4 hari yang lalu · Join us on August 15th at 6 PM for our final summer lecture Dr. David A. Smith will share the remarkable story of George Dewey, one of the most influential officers in the U.S. Navy between the Civil War and World War II.
3 hari yang lalu · Dewey was one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founding thinkers of functional psychology. His paper "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology", published in 1896, is regarded as the first major work in the (Chicago) functionalist school of psychology. [ 11] .
5 hari yang lalu · The War of 1812 grew out of British impressment of U.S. seamen and other grievances. The overwhelming size of the British navy made possible a damaging blockade of all principal U.S. ports. It also enabled the British to capture and burn Washington, D.C., and to attack Baltimore, Maryland, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and various coastal towns, ...
1 hari yang lalu · When Hawaii was annexed, the Crown Lands were seized by the United States government. The Queen gave George Macfarlane her power of attorney in 1898 as part of her legal defense team in seeking indemnity for the government's seizure of the Crown Lands.
3 hari yang lalu · The decisive naval battle of the Spanish-American War, the Battle of Manila Bay, took place there on May 1, 1898, when Commodore George Dewey’s U.S. fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet off Cavite.
4 hari yang lalu · The Madison Square Park Dewey Arch. Image via Library of Congress. Curiously, Madison Square had also been the location of another temporary arch in 1899 called the Dewey Arch, which was built by...
3 hari yang lalu · Kevin Feige, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy and Lauren Shuler Donner produce with Louis D’Esposito, Wendy Jacobson, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, George Dewey and Simon ...
