Search results for "Poll" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In a recent BBC poll, Venn was voted as the third greatest mathematician of modern times, narrowly beaten by Sir Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 04:30, 3 May 2024
- status with Muslims and again had to pay the poll tax. Buddhists had the starker choice of conversion or expulsion. David Morgan, Medieval Persia ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Stanton, Frank Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 - December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- In an American Institute of Architects' poll, the Chrysler Building came in first place as 90 percent of them placed the building in their ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- It was named #88 in the 1995 Centenary Poll of the 100 Best Films of the Century in Time Out Magazine. The film was also voted one of the ten ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- athletic competition. In 1950, an Associated Press poll among sportswriters voted Thorpe the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century, while ...24 KB (3,676 words) - 21:00, 3 April 2024
- coveted, in Gone with the Wind, and a radio poll named Davis as the audience ... She was listed in the annual "Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- the rights of Southern states to impose a poll tax),John H. Buchanan and ... Act was unconstitutional, and he supported poll taxes, literacy tests for ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- finances by attempting to divide the taille or poll tax more equally, by abolishing the vingtième d'industrie, and establishing monts de piété ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes. Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery. He spent ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- official count differed markedly from exit poll results which gave Yushchenko ... announcing on the basis of its exit poll that Yushchenko had won. Beginning ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- * Number One World Musical Personality in the NME Poll (UK) 1960 * Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member 1994 * Grammy Winner Best Rock Instrumental ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- as Alfred Reginald Brown, but later, by deed poll, changed his name to Radcliffe-Brown. As a child he developed tuberculosis, which left his lungs ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Problems emerged during implementation of the poll tax to fund local ... contest. After her resignation, a MORI poll found that 52 percent agreed ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- the tax system at the time--a direct capitation (poll tax)--was highly regressive, especially given the fact that there was a dichotomy in eighteenth ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 13:24, 27 January 2023
- absence of capital punishment, the lack of a poll-tax and land tax, and the presence of a strongly embedded caste system. Most citizens abstained from ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- a magazine aimed at libraries, organized a poll to determine the Swedish books ... |valign="top"|In 1998, a poll to determine the most important ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- She says that he tripled the poll-tax and pillages churches for their wealth. ==Death== When Al-Mutawakkil began to show favor to his second son ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- court lawsuits to stop discriminatory poll taxes. It also reinforced ... php?newsid=32459]. "Harris Poll Finds Public Support for Medicare ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 19:47, 24 May 2024
- More recently, an Associated Press poll conducted in 1999 ranked Budge fifth, following Laver, Sampras, Tilden, and Borg. And in 2006, a panel ...15 KB (2,399 words) - 17:17, 30 January 2024
