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Venus Lacy (some sources give her name as Venus Lacey, born February 9, 1967) is an American former star basketball player, at the high school, college, Olympic and professional levels. A wide-bodied, muscular 6-foot-4-inch (1.93 m) center , at her best Lacy was an intimidating force inside the paint, both scoring and rebounding.
Charlene Marie Richard (January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959) was a twelve-year-old Roman Catholic Cajun girl from Richard, Louisiana) in the United StatesShe has become the focus of a popular belief that she has performed a number of miracles.
Jennifer Dupont, Miss Louisiana USA 2000, is one of only seven women who have competed in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America pageants. Louisiana's future success at Miss USA would be evident in the state's first contestant, Jeanne Vaughn Thompson, Miss Louisiana USA 1952 and 1953.
(One died while being treated after being pulled from the water.) No one else of his age had been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal until the young victims of the 16th Street Baptist church bombing were honored in 2013. [11] Members of the United States Antarctic Expedition of 1939–1941: September 24, 1945: P.L. 79-185, 59 Stat. 536
The U.S. won 47 gold medals, the most of any country at the 1924 Games. One of them was awarded to mixed doubles tennis player Richard Norris Williams, who had survived the sinking of the Titanic ...
Kate M. Gordon (1861 – 1932) was an American suffragist, civic leader, and one of the leading advocates of women's voting rights in the Southern United States.Gordon was the organizer of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference and directed the 1918 campaign for woman suffrage in the state of Louisiana, the first such statewide effort in the American South.
Team USA won 46 gold medals, 28 of those were won by the 292 American women. ... See all the U.S. women who won Gold at the 2016 Olympics along with some fun facts: Show comments.
She came from a prominent Louisiana family with an ancestor, William C. C. Claiborne, who served as Louisiana's first governor after statehood, during the War of 1812. [1] In 1939, at the start of World War II, the family returned to New Orleans. [1] Claiborne attended St. Timothy's School for Girls, a small boarding school in Maryland.