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Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
Modupe Alakija. . (m. 1976) . Children. 4. Website. www.folorunsoalakija.com. Chief Folorunsho Alakija (born July 15, 1951) is a Nigerian businesswoman and philanthropist. [1][2][3] She is currently the group managing director of The Rose of Sharon Group and also serves as executive vice chairman of Famfa Oil Limited.
Emma Clare McQuiston was born on 26 March 1986, in London, the daughter of a Nigerian father and an English mother. Her father, Chief Oladipo Jadesimi, is a Nigerian oil billionaire who is the executive chairman of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Company and is a titleholder in the Nigerian chieftaincy system, while her mother, Suzanna McQuiston, is an English socialite.
Olive Oyl in her debut (strip printed December 19, 1919) In the strip as written by Segar, Olive is a scrappy, headstrong young woman (her age varying between her late teens and 26) visually characterized by her exaggeratedly slim build (evolving from its previous more realistically proportioned form by the late 1920s) and her long black hair (usually presented as rolled in a neat bun, like ...
La Parisienne (English: The Parisian) is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed in 1874 and now displayed at the National Museum Cardiff.The work, which was one of seven presented by Renoir at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, is often referred to as The Blue Lady (French: La Dame en Bleu) and is one of the centre-pieces of the National Museum's art ...
A Young Girl Reading. Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand.
History. The area where the museum is located was the first oil exploration site in Miri which used the Grand Oil Lady drilling rig. It produced oil starting from 22 December 1910 to 1972. [1] One year after its retirement on 1 October 1973, Sarawak Shell Bhd handed over the property to the Sarawak State Government in a simple ceremony.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) [1] [2] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th century after the earring worn by the girl portrayed there. [3]