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Ima Hogg - Wikipedia

Ima Hogg has been the source of "unfortunate name" or "worst baby name" jokes, lists, and contests, including the incorrect lore that Jim Hogg had named his two daughters "Ima Hogg" and "Ura Hogg". Similar unfortunate baby names en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg

according to United States Census records include Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut, Ima Hooker,[15] Ima Weiner, Ima Reck, Ima Pain and Ima Butt. Ima Hogg was born in Mineola, Texas in 1882 to Jim Hogg and Sarah Ann "Sallie" Stinson. She was the second of four children, including

brothers William Clifford Hogg (1875–1930), Michael Hogg (1885–1941), and Thomas Elisha Hogg (1887–1949) She received the seventh annual Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award[On June 28, 1900, Louise du Pont married Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1869–1950), a wealthy man and a

renowned yacht-racer and expert marksman of the Boston Brahmin Crowninshield family.[1] There were no children by the marriage. The Crowninshields had homes in Marblehead and Boston, Massachusetts; Boca Grande, Florida; and the original du Pont family estate, Eleutherian Mills,

north of Wilmington, Delaware. When the DuPont Company ceased its operations along the Brandywine in 1923, it was decided that the houses and surrounding properties would be offered to the descendants of their original owners. Louise's father, Henry A. du Pont, purchased

Eleutherian Mills, and the 52 acres it was on, for her. Louise and her father came to an agreement that she would live in the house at least part of the year. From that point on, Louise and Frank resided at Eleutherian Mills during the spring and fall months.
The home had been

abandoned by Louise's grandmother, Louisa Gerhard du Pont, after an explosion at the DuPont mills in 1890.

She was also involved with historic restoration in Virginia, particularly the Kenmore Association, of which she was a regent. She was a founding trustee of the

National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1949 and was vice-chairman of the board in 1953. In recognition of her services to historic preservation, the National Trust instituted an annual award, the Louise Evelina du Pont Crowninshield Award

The National Trust for Historic Preservation's former headquarters of 35 years, the Andrew Mellon Building, located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The National Trust moved its headquarters to the Watergate complex in 2013.

McCormick Apartments, also known as Andrew Mellon Building, Mellon Apartment, or 1785 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, is a landmark apartment building on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., whose inhabitants once included Andrew W. Mellon. It is the home of the American Enterprise

Institute. The Andrew Mellon Building was built by Stanley McCormick, heir to the International Harvester fortune, in 1915 and completed in 1917. Washington-based Jules Henri de Sibour was architect of the building. This was one of the first Washington apartment buildings for

luxury living. The structure was meant to fit in with other Beaux-Arts buildings in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. After 1941, the building was used for offices and eventually partitioned. The property was conveyed by deed from Katherine Dexter McCormick to the American Council

on Education on March 31, 1950. Later the property was conveyed to The Brookings Institution on January 2, 1970. Finally, the building was sold to the National Trust for Historic Preservation on October 28, 1976.[The Institution's founder, a philanthropist Robert S. Brookings

(1850–1932), originally created the formation of three organizations: the Institute for Government Research, the Institute of Economics (with funds from the Carnegie Corporation), and the Robert Brookings Graduate School affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis. The

three were merged into the Brookings Institution on December 8, 1927. In 1952, Robert Calkins succeeded Moulton as president of the Brookings Institution. He secured grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation that put the Institution on a strong financial

basis. He reorganized the Institution around the Economic Studies, Government Studies, and Foreign Policy Programs. In 1957, the Institution moved from Jackson Avenue to a new research center near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. National Academy of Sciences/National Research

Council, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University's now-defunct Food Research Institute[6] and the Brookings Institution, then became interested in adult education and lifelong learning, an obvious follow-on to

Carnegie's vision for libraries as "the university of the people". Washington University was conceived by 17 St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack of institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow and

Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfather of the poet T.S. Eliot, led the effort. In 1922, a young physics professor, Arthur Holly Compton, conducted a series of experiments in the basement of Eads Hall that demonstrated the "particle" concept of electromagnetic

radiation. Compton's discovery, known as the "Compton Effect," earned him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927.[24]
During World War II, as part of the Manhattan Project, a cyclotron at Washington University was used to produce small quantities of the newly discovered element

plutonium via neutron bombardment of uranium nitrate hexahydrate. The plutonium produced there in 1942 was shipped to the Metallurgical Laboratory Compton had established at the University of Chicago where Glenn Seaborg's team used it for extraction, purification, and

characterization studies of the exotic

Begins production of two chemicals that would go on to play a key role in the history of pain relief: morphine and codeine

1942
Purified and provided all of the uranium oxide used by the Manhattan Project (U.S.), which developed the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction

In October 2020, Mallinckrodt, filled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while facing more than $1 billion in costs from lawsuits over its role in fueling the opioid crisis. Throughout its history, Washington University in St. Louis has received a large number of donations from

the Mallinckrodt family and corporation, including a posthumous endowment by Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. on behalf of his father to the Washington University School of Medicine Radiology Department resulting in the creation of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.[13] Both Edward

Mallinckrodt Sr. and Jr. served as members of the Washington University Board of Trustees. The elder Edward also made significant donations to his alma mater, Harvard University, and to the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Harvard University disclosed today that, as a result of a

merger agreement, a bequest by an alumnus 15 years ago had become what is believed to be the largest single gift in the history of American education.
Harvard said that its approximately 1.5 million shares in Mallinckrodt Inc. would be worth $77 million when Avon Products

acquired the St. Louis-based chemical and health care products company this month.
As a result of the takeover, Harvard and Washington University, which re-ceived 767,172 shares from the same donor, will get a total of more than $115 million.
Edward Mallinckrodt Jr., the

company's chairman, left the shares as part of a trust to Harvard in 1967, shortly after his death. At the same time, he gave 767,172 shares to Washington University. Under the terms of Mr. Mallinckrodt's trusts for the two schools, they have been receiving dividend income for

the last 15 years. The trust, run by four Mallinckrodt directors, was ended this month as part of the Avon deal, Avon Is Paying $50 a Share

Stock in Mallinckrodt Inc. had jumped from $30 a share a year ago to $45 after repeated rumors of takeover bids. Avon is paying $50 a

share for the company, which was started by Mr. Mallinckrodt's father.

The largest single previous known gift directly to a university was made by Robert W. Woodruff, a retired chairman of Coca-Cola, who gave Emory University in Atlanta three million shares of Coca-Cola stock,

worth $100 million, in 1979.
Last fall a Connecticut industrialist, Edwin C. Whitehead, arranged to donate an independent institute for biomedical research that will be built next to the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for $127 million.

In March 2016, Cerberus Capital Management paid $435 million in cash for preferred stock in Avon Products. In January 2020, Natura &Co closed the acquisition of Avon Products, Inc. The Natura &Co[26] group also includes Natura, Aesop, and The Body Shop, and with the acquisition

of Avon has created the world's fourth-largest pure-play beauty company.

UEBT is a membership-based organisation that was created in May 2007[3] in Geneva, Switzerland. It was conceptualized in response to multiple developments. First of all, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) acknowledged that additional efforts were needed to reach out to

the private sector. Finally, UEBT built upon efforts initiated by the BioTrade Initiative of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established to provide a forum where the developing

countries could discuss the problems relating to their economic development. The organisation grew from the view that existing institutions like GATT (now replaced by the World Trade Organization, WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank were not properly

organized to handle the particular problems of developing countries. Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, UNCTAD was closely associated with the idea of a New International Economic Order (NIEO).
The first UNCTAD conference took place in Geneva in 1964

He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela. The group was initiated by English philanthropist Richard Branson[6] and musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel,

together with anti-apartheid activist and former South African President Nelson Mandela. Mandela announced the formation of the group on his eighty-ninth birthday on 18 July 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Andhra Pradesh-born Bandla will be one of the six space travellers

aboard ''VSS Unity'' of Virgin Galactic, scheduled to take off to space on July 11 from New Mexico alongside the founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson.

The spaceship was unveiled on 19 February 2016, as Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson had projected in November 2015; ground and flight testing commenced thereafter.
VSS Unity is the second SpaceShipTwo to be completed; the first, VSS Enterprise, was destroyed in a crash

in late October 2014.[