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Magie died at the age of 81 in 1948. She was buried with her husband Albert Wallace Phillips, who had died in 1937, in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. [10] Magie died without having any children. [11] At her death, she was not credited for the impact that she had on the board game community and American culture. [12]
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
Between 1880 and 1881, Sallie lost three close family members. Her mother died in May 1880, her father-in-law, Oliver Winchester, died in December that same year, and her husband died from tuberculosis in March 1881. [6] [2] After the loss of so many family members, Sallie spent time at the seashore, followed by a trip to Europe. [6]
Not much is known of Masters' early life. It is possible that she was born in Bermuda as her father had emigrated from there in 1687. [3] It is believed that she was born around 1676, and in 1687 she and her six sisters emigrated from Bermuda to Burlington Township, New Jersey (along the Delaware River) with her Quaker parents Sarah and William Righton. [3]
Crosby decided to reclaim her birth name, Mary, and thus was known after her husband's death as "Mary Caresse Crosby." [ 44 ] She pursued ambitions as an actress that she had had since her 20s, and appeared as a dancer in two short experimental films directed by artist Emlen Etting , Poem 8 (1932) [ 45 ] and Oramunde (1933).
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Her legacy was recognized by Killingly Grange No. 112, after the members learned that Mary Kies died with little to her name and her grave was marked with an uninscribed headstone. The group took to honoring her with a new headstone in Old South Killingly cemetery as the first woman in the United States to apply for and receive a patent.
Lady Franklin was a woman of unusual character and personality. Her determined efforts, in connection with which she spent a great deal of her own money to discover the fate of her husband, added much to the world's knowledge of the Arctic regions. It was said: 'What the nation would not do, a woman did'. [10]