The census report found that median household income, adjusted for inflation, was $51,017 in 2012, down about 9 percent from an inflation-adjusted peak of $56,080 in 1999, mostly as a result of the longest and most damaging recession since the Depression.
J. R. R. Tolkien was a professor at England's Oxford University and a respected scholar of medieval literature.But he is best known as the author of the fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.At the age of three he moved with his mother to Sarehole, a village outside Birmingham, England.. R. R. Tolkien was a professor at England's Oxford University and a respected scholar of medieval literature.
Some of the all time favorite books he has written are âGreen Eggs and Hamâ, âFox in Socksâ, âOh, the Places Youâll Goâ, and âHow the Grinch Stole Christmasâ. The classic story âGreen Eggs and Hamâ was written because of a bet. His editor, Bennett Cerf, bet him fifty dollars that he couldnât write a book using only fifty simple words. Ted proved to his editor and the world that he could. His editor never paid him the fifty dollars.