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Background [ edit ] The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power (since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors) and by small states who increased their power ...
The Tampa Bay area has a long association with amateur and professional baseball. Tampa and St. Petersburg were among the first hosts of Major League Baseball spring training in the 1910s, the Tampa Smokers and St. Petersburg Saints were two of the founding members of the minor league Florida State League (FSL) in 1919, and several other communities in the area also hosted FSL teams in the ...
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African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. To best understand African American culture, one must first understand who African Americans are. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [34] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [35] broken down, [36] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [37] and blended into one group on the North ...
A study published in 2013 however, states that "the best estimate for the industrial-era (1750 to 2005) direct radiative forcing of atmospheric black carbon is +0.71 W/m 2 with 90% uncertainty bounds of (+0.08, +1.27) W/m 2" with "total direct forcing by all-black carbon sources, without subtracting the preindustrial background, is estimated as ...