Iowa is the lowest paid state on mainland U.S.A. with an average RN salary of $52,540 â not so great if you live there! The large variation can in part be explained by simple supply and demand influences.
Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.; February 1, 1948 â August 6, 2004) was an American musician and composer. Influenced by singers such as Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson, James started singing in doo-wop and R&B groups as a teenager in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859) was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S., paving the way for future inventors of color to gain exclusive rights to their inventions. Born in 1791, Jennings lived and worked in New York City as a tailor and dry cleaner. He invented an early method of dry cleaning called dry scouring and patented it in 1821âfour years before Paris tailor Jean Baptiste Jolly refined his own chemical technique and established what many people claim was historyâs first dry cleaning business.