WebThe Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and colloquially known as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 …

WebFacebook's initial public offering came on May 17, 2012, at a share price of US$38 ($45.00 in 2021 dollars).The company was valued at $104 billion ($123 billion in 2021 dollars), the largest valuation to that date. The IPO raised $16 billion ($18.9 billion in 2021 dollars), the third-largest in U.S. history, after Visa Inc. in 2008 and AT&T Wireless in 2000.

WebLaws restricting noncommercial ownership/use of mechanical & digital games of chance This is a list of potential restrictions and regulations on private ownership of slot machines in the United States on a state by state basis.

WebMadeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright was the first woman to hold that post.. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the …

WebMount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains, located on the tripoint boundary of the Philippine provinces of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga, all in Central Luzon on the northern island of Luzon. Its eruptive history was unknown to most before the pre-eruption volcanic activity of early 1991. Pinatubo was heavily eroded and …

WebIrises is one of several paintings of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and one of a series of paintings he made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.. Van Gogh started painting Irises within a month of entering the asylum, in May 1889, working from nature in the hospital …

WebThe Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the …

WebAjit Varadaraj Pai (/ ə ˈ dʒ iː t ˈ p aɪ /; born January 10, 1973) is an American lawyer who served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He has been a partner at the private-equity firm Searchlight Capital since April 2021.. The son of Indian immigrants to the United States, Pai grew up in Parsons, Kansas.He is …

WebBiography Early life and background. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 into a Gujarati Hindu Modh Bania family in Porbandar (also known as Sudamapuri), a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the British Raj.His father, Karamchand …

WebAT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. One of its subsidiaries was the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), …