General Cornwallis continued the British policy of aligning with disaffected slaves in the South who were largely Royalist. This policy may have engendered opposition from those slaveholders and others who were not slaveholders who perceived emancipation of the slaves as a threat to their way of life.
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. To congratulate him, American President Bill Clinton wrote, You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come. Kilby is also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he has the pa
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