Her father, a New York City firefighter and Vietnam-era veteran, was killed in a motorcycle accident when she was a teenager. She recalled, "When I sat at his funeral, the one thing that was burned into my heart was when the military honored him. And then they handed my mother a fo...
At his death in July of 1940, Robert Pershing Wadlow weighed 220 kg (490 pounds). At six months old, Robert weighed 30 pounds. A year later at 18 months, he weighed 62 pounds. by the time he was eight years old he had reached a height of six feet, two inches and weighed 195 pou...
Located in western Minnesota along the South Dakota border, Lac qui Parle County is a rural area originally part of the Dakota tribe and settled by the French in the early 1800s. The county was established in 1871. Many prominent buildings were built in the county going into the 20th centur...
Leslie lived in Reno, Nevada. Born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Leslie received her Bachelor's degree from Sonoma State University in 1977 and her Master's degree in 1979 from University of Nevada, Reno in Spanish Language and Literature. Leslie also served as a Peace Corps volunteer....
Mom received loving care from the Sister Servants of Christ the King at a 40-bed,basic-care facility (场所) in Edgeley, North Dakota. She lived in a simple room, spent most of her day doing simple things, and seemed to be "all right," considering that dementia (痴呆) had set in. ...
Unfortunately, their newly wedded bliss would be short-lived. Eight months after the wedding, Rod's younger brother Kevin, who wished the couple "endless years of love, health and happiness," at their wedding, lost his battle with leukemia at the...
The daughter of David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach, Hayley Hasselhoff, used to steal the spotlight from her parents as a spirited little girl. She’s since stepped out of her parents’ shadow completely with TV roles (she was the lead in the short-lived and woefully underrated seriesHuge) and...
but the part nearly went to the Parks and Recreation alum. “This is what longevity, experience and recovery give you. There are no accidents,” Lowe said to Variety in February 2021 of passing on Grey’s Anatomy for the short-lived series Dr. Vegas. “Whatever decision you come to...
As a girl growing up on theRosebud Indian Reservationin South Dakota in the 1970s, Connie Brushbreaker sometimes saw her mother,Tillie Black Bear, beaten by the man who lived with them. It typically happened when Black Bear’s partner, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux...
From there, they headed to Tennessee, and then on through North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota and Wyoming before returning to Southern Oregon. While they’d love to take Frankie out of the US and perhaps visit Canada at some stage, they’re put off by ...