| | Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Puts the Financial System at RiskIn late 1999, a Republican congressman held a party in Washington to celebrate the passing of new legislation destined to have a profound effect on Wall Street and the entire financial industry in the United States. Despite the date on the law, the principle upon which it was based actually had been a cornerstone of the... | | Encyclopedia of Civil War ShipwrecksOn the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded,... |