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U.S. Supreme Court: What Exactly Is It?   George Washington, 1st President of USA. The US Supreme Court is the highest of the ranking of the federal courts in America and is the head of the judicial branch. The U.S. Constitution is basically the father of all laws of the U.S. and looks over the constitutionality of the laws they approve. The Supreme Court was officially established in 1789, which was followed by the Constitution gave congress the right to decide the organization of the supreme court. Using the Judiciary Act of 1789, which was signed by the first president George Washington, which said it would be made up of six justices who had to serve on court until they died. The very first was West vs. Barnes, which was a simple case involving a farmer who owed debt to a family. One fun fact about the U.S. Supreme Court is that John Marshall, a court justice, is one of two justices on American currency. You can read more about how the Supreme Court started  here.  Ever sin

Where Did Facebook Come From? Facebook is hands down the largest and most used social media platform on the web. Valued in 2018 at over 100 billion dollars, where did this spectacular piece of technology come from? In 2004 at Harvard University, a young Mark Zuckerberg created 'The Facebook' in just three weeks time, all by himself. Within the first few weeks, everyone at Harvard had a facebook account. The term 'Facebook  me' became a household slang at Harvard University. But it didn't stop there. After finding huge success at Harvard, Zuckerberg expanded his empire to colleges all across the nation. Roughly a year after the release of Facebook, almost every college student in the nation had an account. A little less than a year after that, Facebook was then available to anyone across the planet aged 13 years or older. One decade later,  Facebook was valued at 104 billion dollars, but that wasn't the end. Zuckerberg had to fight two separate lawsuits at the s

Where did wireless phones come from? The first wireless phones were only in cars and trucks back in 1946. They were invented by Bell Laboratories. It was a complicated system, and throughout New York, only 12 calls could be made at a time, given the size of the city. Years later in 1962, what they called the "Madira Senator" was invented, which is what we would call a modern day boom box. Before Steve Jobs came out with the very first iPhone, all phones were connected to the wall with a plug, or had a giant antennae coming out of the top of the phone. In 2007, the first ever iPhone was released. Four years later, when Jobs passed away, the company was left to his two partners, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Since then, phones have left arguably the biggest impact any piece of technology has left yet. Since his death, more than five new versions of the iPhone have been released, the most recent being the iPhone being the most recent. His company, 'Apple', has expande