Redstone, Telopea, a heritage-listed house at 34 Adderton Road, Telopea, New South Wales; Presbytery of Redstone; Redstone, Calgary, a neighbourhood in the northeast quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; People. Brent Redstone (b. c. 1951), American heir and businessman; Michael Redstone (1902–1987), American businessman

Michael S. Hart (1971) Despite the extensive earlier history, several publications report Michael S. Hart as the inventor of the e-book. In 1971, the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois gave Hart extensive computer-time. Seeking a worthy use of this resource, he created his first electronic document by typing the United States Declaration of …

Shari Ellin Redstone (born April 14, 1954) is an American media executive with a background in numerous aspects of the entertainment industry and related ventures. She currently serves as the non-executive chairwoman of Paramount Global (formerly known as ViacomCBS) and president of National Amusements; she formerly served as the vice-chairman of CBS Corporation and …

Sumner Murray Redstone (né Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate.He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom which was dissolved in 2019 (a year before Redstone's death) and was the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National …

The company was founded by Michael Redstone in 1936 in the Boston suburb of Dedham as Northeast Theater Corporation, operating a chain of movie theaters in the region. Fifty years later in 1986, when the founder's son Sumner Redstone joined the company, it was renamed National Amusements. That year, the company acquired Viacom, a former CBS subsidiary syndicating …

Redstone Old Fort — or Redstone Fort or (for a short time when built) Fort Burd — on the Nemacolin Trail, was the name of the French and Indian War-era wooden fort built in 1759 by Pennsylvania militia colonel James Burd to guard the ancient Indian trail's river ford on a mound overlooking the eastern shore of the Monongahela River (colloquially, just "the Mon") in what is …

MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks publishing tabloid-style news items about digital music and artists, songs, services, and technologies. It is better known for its original incarnation as a legal, free music-sharing service, named after the popular music file format MP3, popular with independent musicians for promoting their work. That service was shut down on …

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of …

Années 1970 et 1980. En 1971, Michael Hart créait le projet Gutenberg dans le but de numériser une grande quantité de livres et de créer une bibliothèque virtuelle proposant une collection de documents électroniques en libre accès [3].Par ce projet, Hart souhaitait initier de nouvelles pratiques de diffusion (et, éventuellement, de lecture), différentes du papier.

Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3 (spacecraft commander of the first manned Gemini mission), Apollo 1 (spacecraft commander); died aboard Apollo 1 ... Michael P. Anderson * (1959–2003) February 3, 2004: George W. Bush: STS-107 (died aboard Columbia) Kalpana Chawla * (1962–2003) February 3, 2004: