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Thomas More Storke (November 23, 1876 – October 12, 1971) was an American journalist, politician, postmaster, and publisher. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962. [1] Storke also served as an interim United States Senator, appointed to serve between the resignation of William Gibbs McAdoo in November 1938 and the January 1939 swearing-in of Sheridan Downey, who had been elected to succeed McAdoo.
Bell House, also known as the summer home of Alexander Graham Bell, is a historic home located at Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia.It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay Stick Style frame dwelling originally built between 1883 and 1885 for Helen and Colonel J.O.P Burnside. [3]
Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean beaches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more accessible to visitors from Washington, D.C. The family of Alexander Graham Bell maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach, the Bell House, which still stands today.
Storke was elected to the California State Assembly in 1882, serving from 1883 to 1885, and elected again in 1888 for the 74th district, serving from 1889 to 1891. [2] He opposed the Southern Pacific Railroad because he was not a part of the so-called political machine.
The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway , a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial National Historical Park and connects Jamestown , Williamsburg and Yorktown .
One night as they are driving home, they are pulled over by a car that they think is the police, but it is Paul, posing as a police officer and stalking Teresa. Paul shoots Chris and kidnaps Teresa. Paul holds Teresa hostage until the next day, when she manages to escape from him at a diner and hurries to a nearby establishment, where she calls ...
Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and archivist, especially known for hoarding [1] [2] and archiving hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012, [2] [3] at which ...
Colonial Beach High School is a public high school located in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The school has an enrollment of approximately 240 students. Colonial Beach High School became accredited by the Southern Association of colleges and the Virginia State Board of Education in 2005.