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Richard ap Meryk (or ap Meurig), anglicised to Richard Amerike (or Ameryk) (c. 1440–1503) was a British merchant, royal customs officer and later, sheriff of Bristol. . Several claims have been made for Amerike by popular writers of the late twentieth
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Of the two customs officials at the Port of Bristol who were responsible for delivering the money to Cabot, the more senior was Richard Ameryk (High Sheriff of Bristol in 1503). [23] [29] Hudd postulated that Cabot named the land that he had discovered after Ameryk, from whom he received the pension conferred by the king. [30]
Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their late father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new ...
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (December 7, 1942 – November 9, 1974) was an American aircraft hijacker.McCoy hijacked a United Airlines passenger jet for ransom in April 1972. . Due to a similar modus operandi, McCoy has been proposed as the person responsible for the November 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, attributed to the still-unidentified "D. B. Coop
Lorraine Granado (1948–2019), environmental, peace and social justice activist and organizer who co-founded the Colorado People's Environmental and Economic Network and Neighbors for a Toxic-Free Community in Denver; John E. Manders (1895–1973), 17th Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska [453] William McGaa (1824–1867), mountain man, co-founder of ...
United States senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849, and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. There was a Dry Pond Post Office beginning right before the Civil War, although it moved across the line to Catawba County near what is now Kiestler's Store Road in December 1868.
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