A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Techcrunch that the Branch Media team will be joining the company, and emphasized that it was a talent acquisition – this is known as an “acqui-hire.”

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• Hursh Agrawal
• Alexsander Akers
• Caroline Alexander
• Libby Brittain
• Andrew Flockhart
• Jason Goldman
• Cemre Güngör
• Ian Ownbey
• Julius Tarng

Meet the team here!

Branch is a way to host great conversations, and to bring people together to talk to each other.

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Branch (formerly Roundtable) raised $2M in seed funding in March of 2012 from:

• SV Angel
• Lerer Ventures
• Rick Webb
• Lucas Nelson
• Ryan Freitas
• David Tisch
• Obvious Corporation
• betaworks
• BoxGroup

The poverty rate in 1965 was a staggering 17%

US Department of State on the Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), which was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States during the fall of 1963

The Test Ban Treaty of 1963 prohibits nuclear weapons tests “or any other nuclear explosion” in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water. While not banning tests underground, the Treaty does prohibit nuclear explosions in this environment if they cause “radioactive debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the State under whose jurisdiction or control” the explosions were conducted. In accepting limitations on testing, the nuclear powers accepted as a common goal “an end to the contamination of man’s environment by radioactive substances.”

President Kennedy signs the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the Treaty Room at the White House.

Information on the Alliance for Progress

Growing out of the fear of increased Soviet and Cuban influence in Latin America, the 1961-69 Alliance for Progress was in essence a Marshall Plan for Latin America. The United States pledged $20 billion in assistance (grants and loans) and called upon the Latin American governments to provide $80 billion in investment funds for their economies."

A key element of the Alliance was U.S. military assistance to friendly regimes in the region, an aspect that gained prominence with the ascension of President Lyndon B. Johnson to power in late 1963 (as the other components of the Alliance were downplayed).

From the U.S. Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th, 1976:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.