"Moscow Is Almost Certain: Anastasia Died with Tzar's Family", by Michael Specter, New York Times International (newspaper of New York, New York, USA), September 7, 1994, page A6.…
Mary Rita Lambert was born on June 8th, 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up in the city area with her four other siblings in a strict, Catholic household. She had three sisters and one brother. She was the middle child of the family, despite being close in age with her other two, younger sisters born two years apart from each other. My grandmother, Phyllis was born in 1936 and her youngest sister, Connie was born in 1938. Her older sister, Frances was born in 1925 and her older brother, Jackson was born in 1926. The older siblings often took care of the family and were regularly responsible for household duties while their parents were off working their jobs. I asked her if she remembered anything about the Great Depression, but she really…
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.…
Maria Isabella “Belle” Boyd was born on May 9, 1844. Boyd grew up in Martinsburg, Virginia with her very Southern family. Boyd was destined to become a Confederate spy because many of her other family members were accused of being Confederate spies. Her father was a shoe keeper, but during the Civil War, he was a soldier in Stonewall Brigade.…
Andrea Yates, born July 2, 1964 in Houston, Texas, was just another average American girl. She was a remarkable student and ended up being her class valedictorian at Milby High School in Houston. She went to college at the University of Huston for nursing and continued her education at the University of Texas, School of Nursing; she graduated in 1986. In 1993, she married Rusty Yates, a devout follower of Michael Peter Woroniecki’s teachings which communicated that if a mother didn’t bring her children up correctly, she and her children were doomed to hell. Andrea, convinced he was right, later referenced some of Pastor Woroniecki’s teachings in court. The fertile couple had four sons over the period between 1994 and 1999. In 1999, Andrea attempted suicide twice before she was treated for her post-partum depression which was already provoked by her present mental imbalance, the family’s overcrowded living conditions, and Andrea’s refusal to take her medication. The doctor told Andrea and Rusty not to have any more children. Andrea was prescribed medication and sent back home to mother her children. She appeared to be getting better and Rusty began pressuring Andrea to…
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…
Amelia Bloomer was a very important historic figure. When Amelia bloomer got married in 1840 she started her own newspaper in Homer, New York, and called it the Lily. Amelia started publishing articles on defending women’s comfort of clothing. Everybody thought this idea was insane but eventually Amelia got her wish. Named after her, the bloomers were created. This made a big difference in Women’s rights because the women did not have to wear their ridiculous long dresses and tight corsets.…
My topic that I have been researching for a while is Ruby Bridges.She was the first african american child to attend an all white school.I picked Ruby Bridges because she had a lot of courage to attend an all white school.When people didn't want her there,she kept going to succeed in life and achieve her dream.That really inspired me to research Ruby Bridges.…
Sally Eisner was born in Baran, Poland. She lived with her parents and younger brother. Sally and her brother had a happy and comfortable life until the Nazis destroyed it. When Poland was invaded by the Nazis, they were thrown out of their homes and sent to a ghetto in another town because they were Jewish. After that they were sent to a small labor camp, where they were forced to work in the fields all day with hardly any food or water.…
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…
The Epsom Derby was not only a very important race but also the setting at which several high calibre people met. It was an imperative social event on everyone’s calendar. However the Derby in the year 1913 was to be one of the most remembered Derby’s in its history. At Tattenham Corner on 4th June 1913 spectators witnessed the death of Emily Davison a 41 year old woman. She was hit by the king’s horse, Anmer, and died 4 days later in hospital. It is not ultimately known why she died though there have been 2 interpretations behind the reasoning of her death.…
Robin McKinley wrote the novel titled Rose Daughter. McKinley created this fictional novel in 1997. “Her 1984 novel The Hero and the Crown won the Newbery Medal as the year's best new American children's book“ (Wikipedia, 2016). “Beauty and the Beast is still my favourite fairy-tale; I can't change that any more than I can change having grown up in the fifties when it was the only fairy-tale around that didn't have the heroine waiting limply to be rescued by the hero “ (McKinley, 2017). McKinley was born Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley in 1952. Known in America as Robin McKinley she has been known as a tremendous author of children’s books and fantasy. McKinley’s fictional book Rose daughter is a rewrite of her original story Beauty: A…
Her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), was a Dutch aristocrat and the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Dutch Suriname from 1921 to 1928. Ella 's mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939), who was a granddaughter of jurist Dirk van Hogendorp.[15] At age nineteen, Ella had married Jonkheer (Esquire) Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford, but they divorced in 1925. Hepburn had two half-brothers from this marriage who were both born in the Dutch East Indies: Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010).[14][16] Ella, Baroness van Heemstra, was named…
The opinion of many Victorians did not support the way Jane acts in the novel. She is…
Author Stud Terkel was a writer, who represented class conflicts in a deceptive style, allowing the facts and people he interviewed to speak for themselves. Previously, he acted on stage and television, hosted a radio program and compiled several books. In Miss U.S.A, Terkel writes the story of Emma Knight using irony. If the modeling agency would not have convinced Emma to join the beauty pageant, then she would not have gained more confidence in herself.…