World War II war hero Doris “Dorie” Miller was born in Waco, Texas on October 12, 1919, and played football at Waco’s A.J. Moore Academy. He dropped out of school at the age of 17 and enlisted in the US Navy in 1939 at the age of 20. He was a mess attendant, one of few positions available to African Americans at the time. Then he was eventually elevated to Cook, Third Class and was soldier of West Virginia at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.…
Christian Biography of Jean McCord Ina Jean McCord, the daughter of Joseph and Telitha (Owens) Nicholson, was born on November 8, 1927 at DeWitt, Nebraska. She passed away on Friday, February 26, 2010 at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital in Superior at the age of 82 years, 3 months and 18 days. Jean attended school and graduated from Tobias High School. On Jue 28th, 1947 she was united in marriage to Lester McCord at Belleville, Kansas. This union was blessed with two sons. Jean was bookkeeper for the Nelson Ideal Market from 1956 to 1960 and was co-owner and bookkeeper with her husband Lester of the Nelson Food Center from 1960 to 1991. She was a family historian of the Nicholson and Owens families, a charter member…
This paper is about Margaret Cochran Corbin. She was the first wounded woman of the American Revolution. She was a strong woman and an interesting person. Margaret Cochran Corbin was a woman who fought in the American Revolution war that was her job. This paper is about her early life, adult life, and contribution to the Revolutionary War.…
Yvonne Addie Riley was born on March 19, 1953 to the loving parents of OdessaDouglas Riley, and Charles Moses Riley Sr.. Yvonne received Christ at an early age at Holy Angels Catholic Church. She attended Holy Angels Catholic School and after graduating she attended a Wendell Phillips high school. Yvonne pursued a career in nursing at Sheridan Shores,and Atrium to her death. Yvonne was a mother figure to everyone she encountered with, her love extended to all. She had a heart of gold and hands of Steele. She was the life of the party, she knew how to make sure everyone had a good time. She enjoyed cooking, and had a warm smile and jokes that would light up the room.…
From early 1900’s keep focus post World War II there were many indigenous singers but none of them made much the huge impact on Australia and the world like Jessica Mauboy has. At the age of 14 Jessica won the Telstra road to Tamworth competition ta the 2004 Tamworth country music festival in Tamworth New South Wales. As the first winner of the completion. Jessica then travel to Sydney to preform and second a recording deal with Sony music Australia. Then she released a country inspired album Cyprus liber…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Distressed, out of cash and in disguise, a missing Georgia bride-to-be turned up on a seedy stretch of Route 66 and told authorities Saturday she'd been abducted, then copped to the truth - she fled the pressure of her looming wedding.…
Bobbie Ann Mason was born on May 1st, 1940 in Mayfield, Kentucky. Her parents were Wilburn and Christina Mason. Bobbie Ann Mason became interested in writing as a child; she would write imitations of the mystery novels she would read. Mason was inspired by Louisa May Alcott and her novel, Little Women. When Mason started to attend college she then became interested in Hemingway, Salinger, and Fitzgerald.…
Before attending the University of Miami (U of M) in Coral Gables, Florida, Isabel Harris Eide prepared for her college career at The Dwight School, an independent college preparatory school located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Formerly known as The Sachs School and The Franklin School, this institution serves kids from age 2 to grade 12 and draws students from approximately forty countries. Isabel Harris Eide subsequently matriculated at U of M to study psychology.…
She lived in West Virginia. In 1953, she joined the West Area Computing section. For missions she had to analyze Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission in 1961. The problem they had in the area was that they did not trust African Americans or in that case women. Since Goble was more known for her work John Glenn had requested a mission. The same job for orbital missions in 1962. Although they did not trust African Americans Glenn felt the need to want Goble herself to run through the equations to make sure they were safe. “When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Katherine Goble talks about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the moon orbiting Command and Service Module” NASA wrote on paragraph 15. In 1986 Goble retired from…
HOUSTON, TX- Almost a week has passed since the case on Andrea Yates occurred. Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children in her bath tub last week on June 20th, 2001. The family grew up in a suburban area of Houston, Texas. This quintuple murder has shocked the whole nation of horrific comments and opinions on this case. Yates has been charged with first degree murder, and the trial has started. The kids ages ranged from 6 months to 7 years old, 4 brothers and 1 sister. Her Attorneys say the murders were brought on by her psychotic delusions, exacerbated by repeated episodes of postpartum depression. The morning of the murders, her husband went to work, and Andrea Yates fed her children breakfast and drowned them one by one as the other…
Katherine Johnson loved math and counting. Ever since she was young she counted everything. Her key to success was counting. Her philosophy on life was “I felt most proud of the success of the Apollo Mission. They were going to the moon and I computed the path to get there.” She was known for calculating the trajectories for many NASA missions.…
John Arthur Johnson or Jack Johnson to some was born in Galveston Texas back on March 31st 1878. Jack Johnson was born too Henry and Tiny Johnson who were both former slaves. Both of Jack Johnson’s parents had blue collar jobs to make ends meet and to raise 5 other children along with Jack. They also tried to teach all 6 kids to read and write and try to teach them right from wrong. That was not always the easiest thing to do back then. But Henry and Tiny Johnson did their best with what they had and with what they were given. Jack Johnson did not attend school very much in his younger years. In total he only had about 5 years of formal schooling before he went into boxing. Jack Johnson was a very quite boy while in school although…
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was the oldest of three children and the only girl of a very close-knit family. Her father, Christian Webb Welty, was an Ohio native who worked for an insurance company. Her mother, Mary Chestina Welty, had been a schoolteacher in West Virginia. Welty’s mother, being a schoolteacher, loved to read and influenced Welty to read at a young age. In her biography, Welty tells about her earliest memories of her parents reading to her and to each other at night. She was always surrounded by books and was always reading. Her love of reading led her to graduate high school and further her education, which most girls during this time…
Sara Teasdale is an American lyrical poet born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884. Throughout her childhood and adulthood, she suffered from many illnesses. This caused her to be homeschooled until she was well enough to be put in school, which finally came at the age of nine. Teasdale finished school in 1903 after going to three different schools and battling many more illnesses along the way. She was an accomplished writer of poetry shortly after finishing school and she has had many poems published to multiple different sources. Her poems have also been used as lyrics for many choral pieces and she has won awards for her collection of poems entitled “Love Songs”. At Sara’s funeral, her mother spoke of how Sara always loved reading poetry and looking at anything beautiful, so she was amazing at taking those beautiful things she saw and turning them into poetry.…
“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed… Anything that could be counted, I did.” (Katherine Johnson) Katherine Johnson was an amazing, African-American mathematician who contributed significantly to NASA and has received many awards on account of her contributions.…