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2,000 | The Linux kernel is a widely ported operating system kernel, available for devices ranging from mobile phones to supercomputers; it runs on a highly diverse range of computer architectures, including the hand-held ARM-based iPAQ and the IBM mainframes System z9 or System z10. Specialized distributions and kernel forks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,001 | There are several industry associations and hardware conferences devoted to maintaining and improving support for diverse hardware under Linux, such as FreedomHEC. Over time, support for different hardware has improved in Linux, resulting in any off-the-shelf purchase having a "good chance" of being compatible. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,002 | In 2014, a new initiative was launched to automatically collect a database of all tested hardware configurations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,003 | Many quantitative studies of free/open-source software focus on topics including market share and reliability, with numerous studies specifically examining Linux. The Linux market is growing, and the Linux operating system market size is expected to see a growth of 19.2% by 2027, reaching $15.64 billion, compared to $3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,004 | Linux kernel is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. The GPL requires that anyone who distributes software based on source code under this license must make the originating source code (and any modifications) available to the recipient under the same terms. Other key components of a typical L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,005 | Torvalds states that the Linux kernel will not move from version 2 of the GPL to version 3. He specifically dislikes some provisions in the new license which prohibit the use of the software in digital rights management. It would also be impractical to obtain permission from all the copyright holders, who number in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,006 | A 2001 study of Red Hat Linux 7.1 found that this distribution contained 30 million source lines of code. Using the Constructive Cost Model, the study estimated that this distribution required about eight thousand person-years of development time. According to the study, if all this software had been developed by conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,007 | In a later study, the same analysis was performed for Debian version 4.0 (etch, which was released in 2007). This distribution contained close to 283 million source lines of code, and the study estimated that it would have required about seventy three thousand man-years and cost (in dollars) to develop by conventional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,008 | In the United States, the name "Linux" is a trademark registered to Linus Torvalds. Initially, nobody registered it, but on August 15, 1994, William R. Della Croce, Jr. filed for the trademark "Linux", and then demanded royalties from Linux distributors. In 1996, Torvalds and some affected organizations sued him to hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,009 | The Free Software Foundation (FSF) prefers "GNU/Linux" as the name when referring to the operating system as a whole, because it considers Linux distributions to be variants of the GNU operating system initiated in 1983 by Richard Stallman, president of the FSF. They explicitly take no issue over the name Android for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,010 | A minority of public figures and software projects other than Stallman and the FSF, notably Debian (which had been sponsored by the FSF up to 1996), also use "GNU/Linux" when referring to the operating system as a whole. Most media and common usage, however, refers to this family of operating systems simply as "Linux",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,011 | , about 8% to 13% of the lines of code of the Linux distribution Ubuntu (version "Natty") is made of GNU components (the range depending on whether GNOME is considered part of GNU); meanwhile, 6% is taken by the Linux kernel, increased to 9% when including its direct dependencies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097297 |
2,012 | Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious and highly ranked un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,013 | The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,014 | the Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.9 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Harvard's endow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,015 | Harvard's founding was authorized by the Massachusetts colonial legislature, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust"; though never formally affiliated with any denomination, in its early years Harvard College primarily trained Congregational clergy. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,016 | Throughout its existence, Harvard alumni, faculty, and researchers have included numerous heads of state, Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, members of Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and Fulbright Scholars; by most metrics, Harvard ranks at the top, or near the top, of all universities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,017 | Harvard was established in 1636 in the colonial, pre-Revolutionary era by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1638, the university acquired British North America's first known printing press. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,018 | In 1639, it was named Harvard College after John Harvard, an English clergyman who had died soon after immigrating to Massachusetts, bequeathed it £780 and his library of some 320 volumes. The charter creating Harvard Corporation was granted in 1650. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,019 | A 1643 publication defined the university's purpose: "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." The college trained many Puritan ministers in its early years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,020 | and offered a classic curriculum that was based on the English university modelmany leaders in the colony had attended the University of Cambridgebut also conformed to the tenets of Puritanism. While Harvard never affiliated with any particular denomination, many of its earliest graduates went on to become Puritan cler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,021 | Increase Mather served as Harvard College's president from 1681 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, marking a turning of the college away from Puritanism and toward intellectual independence. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,022 | In the 19th century, Enlightenment ideas of reason and free will were widespread among Congregational ministers, putting those ministers and their congregations at odds with more traditionalist, Calvinist parties. When Hollis Professor of Divinity David Tappan died in 1803 and President Joseph Willard died a year later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,023 | Charles William Eliot, Harvard president from 1869–1909, eliminated the favored position of Christianity from the curriculum while opening it to student self-direction. Though Eliot was an influential figure in the secularization of American higher education, he was motivated more by Transcendentalist Unitarian convict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,024 | In 1816, Harvard launched new programs in the study of French and Spanish with George Ticknor as first professor for these language programs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,025 | Harvard's graduate schools began admitting women in small numbers in the late 19th century. During World War II, students at Radcliffe College (which, since its 1879 founding, had been paying Harvard professors to repeat their lectures for women) began attending Harvard classes alongside men. In 1945, women were first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,026 | Since 1971, Harvard had controlled essentially all aspects of undergraduate admission, instruction, and housing for Radcliffe women; in 1999, Radcliffe was formally merged into Harvard. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,027 | In the 20th century, Harvard's reputation grew as its endowment burgeoned and prominent intellectuals and professors affiliated with the university. The university's rapid enrollment growth also was a product of both the founding of new graduate academic programs and an expansion of the undergraduate college. Radcliffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,028 | The student body in its first decades of the 20th century was predominantly "old-stock, high-status Protestants, especially Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians," according to sociologist and author Jerome Karabel. In 1923, a year after the percentage of Jewish students at Harvard reached 20%, President... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,029 | President James B. Conant led the university from 1933 to 1953; Conant reinvigorated creative scholarship in an effort to guarantee Harvard's preeminence among the nation and world's emerging research institutions. Conant viewed higher education as a vehicle of opportunity for the talented rather than an entitlement fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,030 | Between 1945 and 1960, admissions standardized to open the university to a more diverse group of students; for example, after World War II, special exams were developed so veterans could be considered for admission. No longer drawing mostly from select New England prep schools, the undergraduate college became accessib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,031 | Drew Gilpin Faust, who was dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, became Harvard's first female president on July 1, 2007. In 2018, Faust retired and joined the board of Goldman Sachs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,032 | On July 1, 2018, Lawrence Bacow was appointed Harvard's 29th president. Bacow intends to retire in 2023, and on December 15, 2022, it was announced that Claudine Gay will succeed him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,033 | Harvard's main campus is centered on Harvard Yard ("the Yard") in Cambridge, about west-northwest of downtown Boston, and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. The Yard contains administrative offices such as University Hall and Massachusetts Hall; libraries such as Widener, Pusey, Houghton, and Lam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,034 | The Yard and adjacent areas include the main academic buildings of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including the college, such as Sever Hall and Harvard Hall. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,035 | Freshman dormitories are in, or adjacent to, the Yard. Upperclassmen live in the twelve residential housesnine south of the Yard near the Charles River, the others half a mile northwest of the Yard at the Radcliffe Quadrangle (which formerly housed Radcliffe College students). Each house is a community of undergraduate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,036 | Also in Cambridge are the Law, Divinity (theology), Engineering and Applied Science, Design (architecture), Education, Kennedy (public policy), and Extension schools, as well as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Radcliffe Yard. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,037 | Harvard Business School, Harvard Innovation Labs, and many athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located on a campus in Allston, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,038 | a Boston neighborhood just across the Charles River from the Cambridge campus. The John W. Weeks Bridge, a pedestrian bridge over the Charles River, connects the two campuses. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,039 | Plans include new construction and renovation for the Business School, a hotel and conference center, graduate student housing, Harvard Stadium, and other athletics facilities. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,040 | In 2021, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will expand into a new, 500,000+ square foot Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,041 | The SEC will be adjacent to the Enterprise Research Campus, the Business School, and the Harvard Innovation Labs to encourage technology- and life science-focused startups as well as collaborations with mature companies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,042 | The schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health are located on a campus in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, about south of the Cambridge campus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,043 | Several Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research institutes are also in Longwood, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Additional affi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,044 | Harvard owns the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, the Concord Field Station in Estabrook Woods in Concord, Massachusetts, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,045 | Harvard is governed by a combination of its Board of Overseers and the President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as the Harvard Corporation), which in turn appoints the President of Harvard University. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,046 | The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the largest Harvard faculty and has primary responsibility for instruction in Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Division of Continuing Education, which includes Harvard Summer Scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,047 | Joint programs with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology include the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, the Broad Institute, The Observatory of Economic Complexity, and edX. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,048 | During the recession of 2007–2009, it suffered significant losses that forced large budget cuts, in particular temporarily halting construction on the Allston Science Complex. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,049 | Harvard's ability to fund its degree and financial aid programs depends on the performance of its endowment; a poor performance in fiscal year 2016 forced a 4.4% cut in the number of graduate students funded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,050 | Endowment income is critical, as only 22% of revenue is from students' tuition, fees, room, and board. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,051 | Since the 1970s, several student-led campaigns have advocated divesting Harvard's endowment from controversial holdings, including investments in apartheid South Africa, Sudan during the Darfur genocide, and the tobacco, fossil fuel, and private prison industries. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,052 | In the late 1980s, during the divestment from South Africa movement, student activists erected a symbolic "shantytown" on Harvard Yard and blockaded a speech by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,053 | The university eventually reduced its South African holdings by $230 million (out of $400 million) in response to the pressure. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,054 | During the 2018–2019 academic year, Harvard granted 1,665 baccalaureate degrees, 1,013 graduate degrees, and 5,695 professional degrees. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,055 | Harvard is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and a preeminent research university with "very high" research activity (R1) and comprehensive doctoral programs across the arts, sciences, engineering, and medicine according to the Carnegie Classification. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,056 | With the medical school consistently ranking first among medical schools for research, biomedical research is an area of particular strength for the university. More than 11,000 faculty and over 1,600 graduate students conduct research at the medical school as well as its 15 affiliated hospitals and research institutes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,057 | The Harvard Library system is centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard and comprises nearly 80 individual libraries holding about 20.4 million items. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,058 | According to the American Library Association, this makes it the largest academic library in the world. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,059 | Houghton Library, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and the Harvard University Archives consist principally of rare and unique materials. America's oldest collection of maps, gazetteers, and atlases both old and new is stored in Pusey Library and open to the public. The la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,060 | The Harvard Art Museums comprise three museums. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum covers Asian, Mediterranean, and Islamic art, the Busch–Reisinger Museum (formerly the Germanic Museum) covers central and northern European art, and the Fogg Museum covers Western art from the Middle Ages to the present emphasizing Italian ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,061 | Among overall rankings, the "Academic Ranking of World Universities" ("ARWU") has ranked Harvard as the world's top university every year since it was released. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,062 | When "QS" and "Times Higher Education" collaborated to publish the "Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings" from 2004 to 2009, Harvard held the top spot every year and continued to hold first place on "THE World Reputation Rankings" ever since it was released in 2011. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,063 | In 2019, it was ranked first worldwide by "SCImago Institutions Rankings". It was ranked in the first tier of American research universities, along with Columbia, MIT, and Stanford, in the 2019 report from the Center for Measuring University Performance. Harvard University is accredited by the New England Commission of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,064 | Among rankings of specific indicators, Harvard topped both the University Ranking by Academic Performance (2019–2020) and "" (2011), which measured universities' numbers of alumni holding CEO positions in "Fortune" Global 500 companies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,065 | According to annual polls done by The Princeton Review, Harvard is consistently among the top two most commonly named "dream colleges" in the United States, both for students and parents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,066 | Additionally, having made significant investments in its engineering school in recent years, Harvard was ranked third worldwide for Engineering and Technology in 2019 by "Times Higher Education". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,067 | The Undergraduate Council represents College students. The Graduate Council represents students at all twelve graduate and professional schools, most of which also have their own student government. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,068 | Harvard College competes in the NCAA Division I Ivy League conference. The school fields 42 intercollegiate sports teams, more than any other college in the country. Every two years, the Harvard and Yale track and field teams come together to compete against a combined Oxford and Cambridge team in the oldest continuous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,069 | Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in the annual football meeting, which dates back to 1875. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,070 | The Harvard Gazette, also called the Harvard University Gazette, is the official press organ of Harvard University. Formerly a print publication, it is now a web site. It publicizes research, faculty, teaching and events at the university. Initiated in 1906, it was originally a weekly calendar of news and events. In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,071 | When the "Gazette" was a print publication, it was considered a good way of keeping up with Harvard news: "If weekly reading suits you best, the most comprehensive and authoritative medium is the "Harvard University Gazette"". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,072 | In 2010, the "Gazette" "shifted from a print-first to a digital-first and mobile-first" publication, and reduced its publication calendar to biweekly, while keeping the same number of reporters, including some who had previously worked for the "Boston Globe", "Miami Herald", and the Associated Press. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,073 | Over more than three and a half centuries, Harvard alumni have contributed creatively and significantly to society, the arts and sciences, business, and national and international affairs. Harvard's alumni include eight U.S. presidents, 188 living billionaires, 79 Nobel laureates, 7 Fields Medal winners, 9 Turing Award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,074 | The perception of Harvard as a center of either elite achievement, or elitist privilege, has made it a frequent literary and cinematic backdrop. "In the grammar of film, Harvard has come to mean both tradition, and a certain amount of stuffiness," film critic Paul Sherman has said. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,075 | Harvard permits filming on its property only rarely, so most scenes set at Harvard (especially indoor shots, but excepting aerial footage and shots of public areas such as Harvard Square) are in fact shot elsewhere. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426501 |
2,076 | Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which would later become Marvel Comics. He was the primary creative leader for two decades, lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,077 | In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writers/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created iconic characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,078 | Following his retirement from Marvel in the 1990s, Lee remained a public figurehead for the company, and frequently made cameo appearances in films and television shows based on Marvel characters on which he received an executive producer credit, which allowed him to become the highest grossing person in film of all ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,079 | Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, in Manhattan, New York City, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia ("née" Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue. Lee was raised in a Jewish household. In a 2002 interview, he stated when asked ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,080 | Lee's father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression. The family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Lee had one younger brother named Larry Lieber. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,081 | Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of writing the "Great American Novel" one day. He said that in his youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center; deliver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,082 | From 1945 to 1947, Lee lived in the rented top floor of a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan. He married Joan Clayton Boocock, originally from Newcastle, England, on December 5, 1947, and in 1949, the couple bought a house in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island, living there through 1952. Their daughter Joan Celia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,083 | The Lees resided in the Long Island town of Hewlett Harbor, New York, from 1952 to 1980. They also owned a condominium on East 63rd Street in Manhattan from 1975 to 1980, and during the 1970s they owned a vacation home in Remsenburg, New York. For their move to the West Coast in 1981, they bought a home in West Hollywo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,084 | The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education, and the arts. Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and the arts. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,085 | Lee donated portions of his personal effects to the University of Wyoming at various times, between 1981 and 2001. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,086 | In 2017, POW! was acquired by Camsing International, a Chinese company, during the period Lee was caring for his terminally ill wife and dealing with his own failing eyesight. Lee filed a lawsuit against POW! in May 2018, asserting that POW! had not disclosed the terms of its acquisition by Camsing to him. Lee stated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,087 | Lee's lawsuit contended that POW! took over his social media accounts and was impersonating him inappropriately. POW! considered these complaints without merit and claimed that both Lee and his daughter J.C. were aware of the terms. The lawsuit was dropped in July 2018, with Lee issuing the statement: "The whole thing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,088 | Following Lee's death, his daughter J.C. gathered a legal team to review the legal situation relating to Lee's intellectual property from his later years. In September 2019, J.C. filed a new lawsuit against POW! in the United States District Court for the Central District of California not only related to recent events... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,089 | In June 2020, Judge Otis D. Wright II dismissed J.C. Lee's lawsuit against POW! Entertainment, declaring it "frivolous" and "improper", sanctioning J.C. Lee for $1,000,000, and sanctioning her lawyers for $250,000 individually and severally. The court also gave POW! Entertainment the right to make a motion to recover l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,090 | On January 10, 2018, the "Mail Online" alleged that Lee was accused by a small number of nurses of sexually harassing them at his home in early 2017. Lee denied the allegations and claimed that the nurses were attempting to extort him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,091 | In April 2018, "The Hollywood Reporter" published a report that claimed Lee was a victim of elder abuse; the report asserted that, among others, Keya Morgan, Lee's business manager and a memorabilia collector, had been isolating Lee from his trusted friends and associates following his wife's death in order to obtain a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,092 | Another figure in the alleged abuse was Lee's former business manager Jerardo Olivarez, who was introduced to Lee by J.C. after his wife's death. Lee filed suit against Olivarez in April 2018, calling him one of several "unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists" that approached him during this period. Acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,093 | In September 2012, Lee underwent an operation to insert a pacemaker, which required cancelling planned appearances at conventions. Lee eventually retired from convention appearances by 2017. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,094 | On July 6, 2017, Joan Boocock, his wife of 69 years, died of complications from a stroke. She was 95 years old. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,095 | Lee died on November 12, 2018, just one month before his 96th birthday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being rushed there for a medical emergency earlier in the day. Lee had previously been hospitalized for pneumonia in February of that year. The immediate cause of death listed on his death certif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,096 | Roy Thomas, who succeeded Lee as editor-in-chief at Marvel, had visited Lee two days prior to his death to discuss the upcoming book "The Stan Lee Story" and stated "I think he was ready to go. But he was still talking about doing more cameos. As long as he had the energy for it and didn't have to travel, Stan was alwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,097 | With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division belonging to pulp magazine and comic-book publisher Martin Goodman. Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean was Goodman's wife, was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,098 | His duties were prosaic at first. "In those days [the artists] dipped the pen in ink, [so] I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009. "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them". Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
2,099 | Lee graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later, using the pseudonym "Reel Nats". His first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in "Mystic Comics" #6 (August 1941). Other characters he co-created during this period, called the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 |
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