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When did you start work on the project?

The Lizardman - Frequently Asked Questions
I began contemplating and designing aspects of it as early as 1990. The first real work I had done (my first tattoo sessions) came 4 years later in 1994 after much consideration and design work.

How did the Veterans History Project start?

Frequently Asked Questions: About the Project (Veterans Hist...
The United States Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000. The authorizing legislation (Public Law 106-380), sponsored by Representatives Ron Kind, Amo Houghton, and Steny Hoyer in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senators Max Cleland and Chuck Hagel in the U.S. Senate, received unanimous support and was signed into law by President William Jefferson Clinton on October 27, 2000.

Who invented Golden Rice and how did the project start?

Golden Rice - FAQ
The inventors of Golden Rice are Ingo Potrykus, Professor emeritus of the Institute for Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich), and Professor Peter Beyer, of the Centre for Applied Biosciences, University of Freiburg, Germany with co-workers (Ye et al 2002). The search for a Golden Rice started off as a Rockefeller Foundation inititative in 1982. After years of research by various research groups a meeting of experts was convened in New York in 1992.

How did the my.umich Project start, and who is working on it now?

my.umich.edu Project FAQ
In fall 1999, Jose-Marie Griffiths, University Chief Information Officer (CIO) initiated a project to develop a Web environment that would present personalized information, services, and resources to University audiences. Current project team members come from Information Technology Central Services (ITCS). Consultants from Apple Computer, Inc. have also worked on the project.

Why did you start this project?

gNewSense Official Website | FAQ / FAQ
We started this project to provide an Ubuntu based free software distribution without non-free binary blobs in the kernel. Neither Debian nor Ubuntu are fully free. Ubuntu installs non-free software by default. Debian provides non-free software through its repositories and includes non-free kernel drivers. See 1 2

Why did Linspire start the Freespire project?

FAQ Category: About Freespire and The Freespire Project - Fr...
Linspire has been a long-time supporter of many open source projects, such as: Debian, Mozilla/Firefox, Nvu, Lsongs, Lphoto, libipod, ReiserFS, GAIM, KDE, KDE-look, Kopete, K3B, and so on. (Visit www.linspire.com/opensource for a complete listing.) Linspire wanted to extend that work to the entire operating system by creating a community-driven project to help us with our work. Work that goes into Debian, Ubuntu, Freespire, and so on, all finds its way into our commercial Linspire product line.

Kiwikku: Sora is a lazy bum. Oops! Did I just quote Kairi?

Kiwikku got their homepage at Neopets.com
You wander through a study with books stacked almost to the cieling. You make your way to giant oak desk which has a green kyrii sitting behind it, shuffling through some papers. She looksup at you and takes off her reading glasses. "Ah! guest! Glad you came. I got your call that you wanted a good book, did you not?" You nod. The kyrii smiles. "Well then!" She slams a huge dusty book in front of you. "Here's some good reading. It'll help you on your neoboard travels.

Did Census 2000 count Americans overseas?

Census 2000, Frequently Asked Questions
For Census 2000 the Census Bureau included overseas counts in the census using definitions and procedures similar to those used in 1990. U. S. military and federal civilian personnel stationed overseas and their dependents living with them were included in the overseas population counts and the Census 2000 apportionment counts. Included in these counts were members of the U.S. Armed Forces on military vessels assigned to a home port in a foreign country and their dependents overseas with them.

When did the project start and how did it develop?

The RFID Ecosystem Project - FAQ - University of Washington,...
The project started in 2006. The first 6 months were spent investigating various RFID technologies in order to identify those that best suited our needs. We were looking for an RFID reader and tags that could be used to track people and their belongings in everyday environments. For example, we wanted our system to be able to track tags embedded in participants' textbooks, backpacks, or cell phones while they walked through the Allen Center.

When did James start acting?

JamesMarsters.com
In fourth grade after performing as Eeyore in "Winnie The Pooh." He found acting fun and that he had a talent for it and was hooked from then on. back

How did circumcision start in the first place?

Frequently Asked Questions about NOHARMM & Circumcision
Lengthy but worthwhile scholarly articles on the anti-sexual origins and history of human genital mutilation are found in James DeMeo's The Geography of Genital Mutilation, James W. Prescott's Genital Pain vs. Genital Pleasure, and Karen Ericksen Paige's The Ritual of Circumcision. Many people believe that circumcision began with the Jews as a hygienic ritual. This is not correct. This belief results from us projecting a 20th Century rationale (hygiene) onto an ancient sacrificial blood ritual.

When and how did FAA start?

FAA Frequently Asked Questions
Food Addicts Anonymous was founded in December of 1987, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Our founder is a wonderful woman named Judith C. We are very grateful to Judith for starting our "Familyship." FAA was started so that we could have a place in which to discuss foods that bother us and to address our disease as an addiction, not just as an emotional or compulsive overeating problem. Initially, it might seem like your meals are completely different from what you would feed your family.

Why did Propecia get off to a bad start?

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - NHI
Propecia launched around the same time as Viagra (jokes and media coverage), which is unfortunate since Propecia can benefit a much larger percent of the population and is very safe. No. It can work all over, as long as the balding is not complete. It has the potential to work wherever there are miniaturized (fine) hairs. It is just that the crown has a longer phase where the hairs are in their transitional state. That is why it is important to treat the front early on.

How did you start?

Kurdish Human Rights Project - FAQ - Frequently Asked Questi...
KHRP was established in 1992 in response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Caucasus and elsewhere. Kurds were being subjected to ethnic cleansing programmes throughout the regions, accompanied by mass killings, displacement and prohibitions on their culture and language. They faced suspicion of harbouring separatist sympathies everywhere, simply by virtue of their ethnic origin.

When did you first start making PageKits?

ELATED frequently asked questions
We first had the idea for producing Web page templates to complement our Web clipart (then called ButtonKits) way back in 1997. We started out with Space, Homebase and Stripes, and they proved to be a big hit. We've never looked back!

So when did you start the website?

Backstreets.com: FAQ List
Back in 1995 — the Solo Acoustic tour for Tom Joad was the first Boss activity we covered on the web. At the time, we called our site "The Backstreets Highway" (jeez, was there really a time when the superinformationhighway references were clever? Oh, probably not) at an AOL-hosted URL that was hard to remember. Like http://members/aol.com/somethingsomething.... Would've used Backstreets.com, but that was taken by some porn company at the time. No kidding.

Q3: When did Medicare start?

Social Security history Frequently Asked Questions
Medicare was passed into law on July 30, 1965 but beneficiaries were first able to sign-up for the program on July 1, 1966.

When did AI research start?

Basic Questions
After WWII, a number of people independently started to work on intelligent machines. The English mathematician Alan Turing may have been the first. He gave a lecture on it in 1947. He also may have been the first to decide that AI was best researched by programming computers rather than by building machines. By the late 1950s, there were many researchers on AI, and most of them were basing their work on programming computers.
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