On this day in 1787, Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, structuring settlement of the Northwest Territory and creating a policy for the addition of new states to the nation. The members of Congress knew that if their new confederation were to survive intact, it had to resolve the statesâ competing claims to western territory.
Energizer Bunny. It was 1989 at St. Louis, and the team of Energizer, DDB Chicago Advertising, and All Effects, a special effects company, were in the midst of creating a marketing ploy that would rival that of its competitor, Duracell.
Although cloning a mammal from an adult cell was thought to be difficult, even unattainable by many scientists, some of Gurdon s frogs were among the first clones to be created from adult cells [1]. In 1997, Dolly the sheep was born at the Roslin Institute in a city near Edinburgh, Scotland [1].