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Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
The Tariff Act of 1930, more commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, was a protectionist U.S. law signed by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930, that raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. Sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, the act was intended to s...
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Isabelle Johnson
Isabelle Jonette Johnson (1901–1992) was a pioneering American painter who became one of Montana's first modernist artists, and her family ranch in Stillwater County has since been transformed into the renowned Tippet Rise outdoor sculpture park. After studying at Columbia University and being selected...
Tropics
The tropics are the region surrounding the equator where the Sun can shine directly overhead, bounded by the Tropic of Cancer (23.4°N) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.4°S), which mirror Earth's axial tilt. Because the Sun remains high in the sky all year, this zone receives the most so...
New Jersey
New Jersey is a small but densely populated state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern US, ranking as the fifth-smallest by land area yet the most densely populated, with over 9.5 million residents (2025 estimate) and every county classified as urban; its capital is Trenton and its largest city is
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a massive warship that functions as a mobile, seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck to launch and recover aircraft, and has evolved from early 20th-century balloon platforms into nuclear-powered supercarriers carrying dozens of fighters. As the largest weapon system ever creat...
NOAA Hurricane Hunters
The NOAA Hurricane Hunters are specialized aircraft operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that fly directly into hurricanes to collect vital data for forecasters and scientists. Based at the Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, the fleet includes two Lockheed WP-3D Orion tur...
PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4), developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, launched on November 15, 2013, as the successor to the PS3, competing in the eighth generation against the Xbox One and Wii U. Moving away from the complex Cell architecture, it featured a powerful AMD x86-64 APU (peaking at 1.84 teraflops) and empha...
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, a seaside resort in New Jersey located on Absecon Island, is famously nicknamed the "Las Vegas of the East Coast" and served as the inspiration for the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly, which uses its street names. Incorporated on May 1, 1854, the city gr...
Extreme heat warning
An extreme heat warning is a notice issued by the U.S. National Weather Service when dangerously hot conditions are expected, typically within 24 to 36 hours. On March 10, 2025, the agency renamed it from "Excessive Heat Warning" to "Extreme Heat Warning" based on a 2018 public survey. These warnings a...
Pokémon
Pokémon is a massive Japanese media franchise—spanning video games, anime, trading cards, and more—set in a universe where humans co-exist with powerful creatures, making it the world's highest-grossing media property despite its core target audience of children aged 5 to 12. The franchise began with role-playing games...
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American filmmaker celebrated for his surreal, dramatic, and often disturbing psychological realism. After studying social anthropology and film at Harvard and directing at the AFI Conservatory, he made his debut with Pi (1998), which won h...