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His posthumous son Arthur Barrett and grandson Lucas Barrett were electrical engineers and ran the firm of Baily, Grundy and Barrett in Cambridge. Birthplace: London, United KingdomCarroll Rosenbloom Dec. at 72 (1907-1979) Carroll Rosenbloom (March 5, 1907 – April 2, 1979) was an American...
Fiorina is the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard (she was booted from the company), and she then was the campaign advisor for John McCain in 2008. She ran for Senate in California, and lost. Fun fact: When running for Senate in 2010, Fiorina produced two of the most strange and offensive ...
troops) the Confederates managed to break the Union line. As McDowell’s Federals retreated chaotically across Bull Run, they ran headlong into hundreds of Washington civilians who had been watching the battle while picnicking on the fields east of the river, now making their own hasty retreat...
John Wilkes Booth lived during the time of Abraham Lincoln who was a lawyer and founding member of the Republican Party. Lincoln was anti-slavery and ran for president during a time of great political turmoil over the issue of slavery. Lincoln won the presidency in 1864 and was sworn in on...
4. I ran 9 ski trips (and attended a 10th). I had already run three at the start of the decade, but then the LA decided I wasn’t qualified and I had to do an arduous course to continue, which I failed the first time around. This taught me a lot about myself and the process...
He then ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North and winning. Southern pro-slavery elements took his win as proof that the North was rejecting the constitutional rights of Southern states to practice slavery. They began the process of seceding from the union. To secure its independence, ...
Bryce was based in Jamaica (his wife Sheila, owned Bellevue, one of the most important houses on the island), during the Second World War, where he ran dangerous missions into Latin America. Ian Fleming, who was personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence,...
there were some art schools open to working class women. Rosa Bonheur, the artist Berthe and Edma idolized, ran such a school herself. But it was deemed unseemly for upper-class girls to attend a school that prepared students to earn their livings as artists. Girls like Berthe did not pur...
my Smedley great-great-maybe another-great grandfather was a fire-eating and diehard abolitionist. Family legend has that the Smedley family farm was an alternate safe house on a branch of the Underground Railway which ran through Lionville, Pennsylvania. GGG-Grandfather Smedley was also unceremonio...