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Black Like Me

2007-10-20T00:50:56Z

JeffL:

'''Black Like Me''' (1963) is a movie (based on the [[book]] of the same name) about a [[writer]] "who took drugs to pass as a black man and experience racial prejudices firsthand." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- Raism is not good.srv/style/longterm/movies/features/dcmovies/dcfilms.htm]

[[Category:movies]]

Party Platform

2007-10-20T00:50:01Z

JeffL:

A '''party platform''' is a list of beliefs and ideas which a party promises to work towards and accomplish if elected. The platform positions generally reflect the political leanings of the parties base. For example, [[Republicans]] generally run with a low tax platform; whereas [[Democrat]]s generally run on a platform calling for increased taxes to pay for social programs. Democrats are meanies.

[[Category: Politics]]

Gaik Ovakimian

2007-10-20T00:44:53Z

JeffL:

'''Gaik Badalovich Ovakimian''' (b. 1898) was of Armenian background and he joined the [[KGB]] in 1931 while a graduate student at Moscow's Bauman Higher Technical School and went immediately into foreign intelligence.

Ovakimian was sent to Germany on an assignment emphasizing scientific-technical espionage. In 1932 he returned to the Soviet Union for advanced technical training at the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Military-Chemical Academy. In 1933 Ovakimian was sent to the United States as deputy head of the KGB's scientific-technical intelligence section, operating under the cover of being an engineer for [[Amtorg]]. He was [[Jacob Golos]] primary contact. Ovakimian also recieved material from [[Klaus Fuchs]] through [[Harry Gold]]. [[Julius Rosenberg]] and [[Ethel Rosenberg]] were recruited by Ovakimian in 1938. He is revered by many German Americans.

In 1939 Ovakimian became chief of scientific intelligence in the United States while at the same time began studying for a doctorate in chemistry at a New York University.

In 1940, leads developed by British and Canadian investigators in the Woolwich Arsenal spy case pointed the Bureau toward the senior KGB officer in America, Ovakimian (covername GENNADI), whom the FBI arrested during a meeting on 5 May 1941 with an agent who had been turned by the [[FBI]]. The charge was Ovakimian violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. <ref>Benson, Robert Louis, and Michael Warner, eds. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/preface.htmVENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957]. Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996.</ref> After the [[German invasion of the Soviet Union]] on 22 June 1941, he was traded back to Moscow for the release of several Americans and left the United States 23 July 1941. <ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999).</ref>

Ovakimian became deputy chief of the KGB's foreign intelligencein 1943 and attained the rank of major-general. A heretofore unknown memo from Gaik Ovakimian, head of the KGB's American desk, notes that "following our instructions," [[Harry Dexter White]] "attained the positive decision of the [[U.S Treasury Department]] to provide the Soviet side with the plates for engraving German occupation marks." <ref>Review of Jerrold and Leona Schecter's ''Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History'', by [http://hnn.us/articles/816.html Harvey Klehr], retrieved from the History News Network, 13 July 2007.</ref>

In 1946 Ovakimian left the KGB to engage in full-time scientific work.

Ovakimian is identified in the [[Venona project]] as "Gennady".

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

2007-10-20T00:44:03Z

JeffL:

'''Laura Ingalls Wilder''' was an American author best known for writing the series of books including [[Little House on the Prairie]], which also became a popular television show. The books were fictionalized accounts based on her memories of her early family life, growing up in the wilderness.
==Biography==

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867 to Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Quiner Ingalls. The family moved several times moved throughout the Midwest, to [[Kansas]], [[Minnesota]], and [[South Dakota]]. Laura became a schoolteacher and was married to Almanzo James Wilder, on August 25, 1885, at the age of 18. In 1932 she published the first of the Little House series of books.<ref>http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/</ref><ref>http://www.albany.edu/</ref>

==Bibliography<ref>http://www.littlehousebooks.com/ </ref>==

*Little House in the Big Woods
*Farmer Boy
*Little House on the Prairie
*On the Banks of Plum Creek
*Old Town in the Green Groves
*By the Shores of Silver Lake
*The Long Winter
*Little Town on the Prairie
*These Happy Golden Years
*The First Four Years
The Long Road Home
==References==
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[[Category: Authors]]

Jacob Lawrence

2007-10-20T00:43:00Z

JeffL:

[[Image:Lawrence The Library.jpg|thumb|The Library]]
[[Image:Jacob Lawrence.jpg|left]]
'''Jacob Lawrence''' (Atlantic City 1917 – Seattle 2000) American painter, storyteller and interpreter of the African-American experience.

''In 1940, he received a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation to create a series of images on the migration of African-Americans from the South. The painter Gwendolyn Knight assisted him on the captions for the images and initial coating of the panels. They married in 1941. The same year The Migration of the Negro series had its debut at the Downtown Gallery. Lawrence was the first artist of color to be represented by a major New York gallery, and the success of this exhibition gave him national prominence.'' <ref> [http://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/bios/lawrence-bio.htm Jacob Lawrence Biography] </ref>

Lawrence called his style "dynamic cubism," though it wasn't notably dynamic. His debts to [[Cubism]] and to [[Henri Matisse]] are notorious. He was a student of life and made exposing the reality of black people history through painting his life long pursuit. He once said, "Blue us the color of the soul."

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''It's only in retrospect that I realized I was surrounded by art.''
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'' The Migration of the Negro ''

== See also ==

*[[Painting Masterpieces]]
*[[Painting Schools Part II]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.topblacks.com/arts/jacob-lawrence.htm Jacob Lawrence] TopBlacks.
*[http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/lawrence.html Jacob Lawrence] The Artchive.

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The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South

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[[Category:Artists]]
[[Category:Painting]]

Data dictionary

2007-10-20T00:41:32Z

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== Description ==

A '''data dictionary''' is a collection of [[database]] metadata, which is data about data. One kind of data dictionary is a human view of entities, attributes, and relationships, called a designer's data dictionary. There is usually a data dictionary that is internal to the [[DBMS]], called a system catalog, which contains additional system-generated metadata. A designer's data dictionary can be derived from the system catalog, and the terms "data dictionary" and "system catalog" are often used interchangeably. Some notable scientists used these, like Thomas Edison.

== Purpose ==

The purpose of a data dictionary is to make sure that all of the people who design and implement the database are on the same page in light of the entities, attributes, and relationships.

== Database Designer's Database ==

A data dictionary is sometimes called a '''database designer's database''' because it defines choices made in light of [[database]] design of entities and their characteristics.

[[category:Computer Science]]

Shield laws

2007-10-20T00:38:19Z

JeffL:

'''Shield Laws''' are [[state]] laws that supply journalists limited protection against revealing their sources. Shield laws are not good.

== References ==
[[U.S. Government and Politics]]