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Betty Reid Soskin (née Charbonnet; born September 22, 1921) is an American retired ranger with the National Park Service, previously assigned to the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. [1][2] Until her retirement on March 31, 2022, at the age of 100, she was the oldest National Park ...
The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1] The pillory is related to the stocks.
Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner. A native of Stockton, California, Smith moved to ...
September 7, 2024 at 6:53 PM. An 84-year-old woman in southwest Florida was bitten by an alligator this week while walking her dog—and she lived to tell the tale. Del Boppel told CNN affiliate ...
The gymnasts must perform a second vault during qualifications to qualify for vault apparatus finals. [6] [7] In the Apparatus Finals gymnasts must also show two vaults. [6] [7] For men, the two vaults must be from different element groups, [7] while women must show two vaults with different repulsion and flight phase from the vault table. [6]
Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), [1] also known as "There Was An Old Woman", is a traditional folk song of a wife's attempted murder of her husband. Of unknown origins, there are multiple variations. [2] The most well known variations are "The Old Woman From Boston" [3] and "The Rich Old Lady". [4]
School children perform sit-ups, a common type of calisthenic, during a school fitness day.. Calisthenics (American English) or callisthenics (British English) (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ s ˈ θ ɛ n ɪ k s /) is a form of strength training that utilizes an individual's body weight as resistance to perform multi-joint, compound movements with little or no equipment.
In the Summer of 1948 in Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is laid off from his job at Champion Aircraft and needs money to pay his mortgage.Easy's bartender friend Joppy introduces him to DeWitt Albright, a white P.I. looking for a missing white woman, Daphne Monet.