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Acks was born, attended high school and college in Illinois. [10] Valdas Adamkus (1926–living), president of Lithuania 1998–2009. Lived in Illinois for a number of years after emigrating to the United States from Lithuania, getting a college degree and entering Chicago politics. [11] Mike Adamle, NFL and Northwestern running back, TV ...
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857.A northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
September 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM. A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago. Now, the ...
Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian. [405] Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling. [406] Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia. [407] Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR. [408] Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer, AIDS-related illness. [409]
t. e. The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group, [nb 1] and is known for its public protests against gay people and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags " and "Thank God for dead soldiers".
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Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [ 10 ] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.