Family History Library
The collections include the following record types: Birth, marriage, and death records Church records Probate (land) and court records Cemetery records Town, county, city, family, and other histories City directories Military records Naturalization and migration records Many other records Available records are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog Ways to Access the Family History Library Records: 1. The records contain the names of more than 3 billion deceased people from over 110 countries including the United States, Canada, and countries in the British Isles, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
Many of these virtuoso musicians were not good sight readers and some could not read music at all, never the less their playing thrilled audiences and the spontaneous music they created captured a joy and sense of adventure that was an exciting and radical departure from the music of that time. We hope it will combine the best of books and audio recordings, into valuable and enjoyable tool for appreciating this music and the men and women who produced it
Where's Crosley Now? Crosley Field
The sight of that bright-green grass would hit you, and you'd think you'd walked into another world." Paul Sommerkamp Crosley Public Address Announcer "Crosley Field was the best. Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Di Maggio, Mantle, Gehringer, Kaline, all the way down to Alan Trammell and Sparky Anderson, they were all right out there." When you come in the place, you go through narrow, winding corridors up to your seat
The KKK in the 1920s
"American Intelligence," outfitted in red, white, and blue, unshackles women from "false modesty" in bathing costumes and from the prejudice against smoking. How the Department of Justice discovered upwards of 60,000 of these organized agitators of the Trotzky doctrine in the United States is the confidential information upon which the Government is now sweeping the nation clean of such alien filth
Niki with Princess Anna (Miriam Hopkins) Strangers May Kiss (1931) In this pre-Code MGM melodrama, the film was changed from the plot of the original Ursula Parrot novel upon which it was adapted by John Meehan. In a conventional happy ending after Jerry was job-transferred to London, she selflessly returned and was reconciled to her husband where he was working in Paris
Stock Market Crash of 1929: Overview and History
Stock prices fluctuated throughout September and into October until the massive drop on Black Thursday.Black Thursday - October 24, 1929On the morning of Thursday, October 24, 1929, stock prices plummeted. In the 1920s, many invested in the stock market.The Stock Market BoomAlthough the stock market has the reputation of being a risky investment, it did not appear that way in the 1920s
They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality. Another unrelated 'wolf-man' film was She-Wolf of London (1946), with June Lockart as Phyllis Allenby, an innocent young girl in London - and the alleged perpetrator of gruesome murders
Chronology of Events - Historical Data - The NIH Almanac - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Capitol, NIH and NASA signed a memorandum of understanding that will help American scientists use the International Space Station to answer questions about human health and disease. The launch of private and government programs to improve care and increase awareness, including NIDDK's National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP), likely also had an impact
However, Radhakrishnan's comment is an attempt to deny the Hegelian interpretation of Hinduism's "contentless" experience, affirming instead that intuition is the plenitude of experience. Just as Radhakrishnan sees his ranking of religions as affirming the relative value of each religion in terms of its proximity to Vedanta, the institution of caste is a social recognition that each member of society has the opportunity to experiment with his or her own spiritual consciousness free from dogmatic restraints
Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 American States
These students wrote up the primary accounts, which were then edited and amended by Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont, who is solely responsible for its contents and any errors or omissions. American eugenic laws and practices implemented in the first decades of the twentieth century influenced the much larger National Socialist compulsory sterilization program, which between 1934 and 1945 led to approximately 350,000 compulsory sterilizations and was a stepping stone to the Holocaust
Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS ApplicationsAn open source application by definition is software that you can freely access and modify the source code for. Canes distributed at the 1893 World Fair in Chicago contained rolled up maps of the city and fair grounds, providing walkings with a novel way to maintain their bearings.Over the decades, innovators continued to come up with interesting ways for users to track their movements on a map
Speaking of the Atlantic Ocean, the 1920s also saw the first solo transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, one year after Robert Goddard successfully launched his first rocket. To help promote their products, studios printed paper advertisements such as movie posters and lobby cards to entice audience members with tantalizing stills from the film
1920s Icons Movie Stars Greta Garbo Louise Brooks Royals
Duke and Duchess of Windsor 1936 In this wedding day image the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson wears a full length gown in palest blue (said to match her eyes) and designed by Mainbocher. The British monarch King Edward the VIII abdicated his throne to his brother who became George VI and who was also the father of the present Queen Elizabeth
1920's Womens Fashions
Many women turned to fashion as a vocation in order to support their fatherless families in the case of war widows, or to earn extra income to spend on the new luxuries. Hats, shoes, stockings, handbags, dresses and jewelry all came together in perfect harmony to create a unique and elegant style that can only be appreciated when seen in real-life or in color illustrations
To encourage women to play a greater part in politics, the National American Woman Suffrage Association reorganized itself as the nonpartisan League of Women Voters. Strikes in the steel, mining, and railroad industries failed, in part because the government used not only troops to end the strikes but also injunctions, which are court orders that prohibit specified actions
The 1920s - Also known as the Roaring Twenties
What was it like to live in the 1920's? Learn about flappers and sheiks, evolving women's fashion in both clothing, hairstyles and jewelry, silent movies, popular music including jazz, politics, religion, and the Stock Market crash of 1929 that heralded the end of the boom-times, and the following depression years. Discover what it was like to live under Prohibition when speakeasies and organised crime flourished, learn how to dance the popular 1920s dance the Charleston, along with how to make a genuine 1920's dress or create an authentic 1920's hairstyle
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