James Bridger was born on July 17, 1881. Throughout his life, people called him "Old Gabe." His real name was James Bridger. During his life he, was a hunter, trapper, fighter, and a guide. He was a partner in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Jim Bridger also became the first man to see the Great Salt Lake. In 1843, the fur trade as declined. Jim also did a similar service like the Union Pacific Railroad. Over his life, Jim Bridger has three Indian wives. Jim Bridger's health failed him. He died at age 76. On 1859-1860 he visited an area called Colter's Hell. Jim was opposed to the Mormon settlements in the Utah area. Jim dies near Kansas City. There are some mountains named after him. After Jims death the window for the improvement went…
Joseph Lewis Thomas also known as Joe Thomas was born on 5th July 1973 in Columbus, Georgia, the United States of America. He was the child of evangelist preachers. American nationality Thomas belongs to white ethnicity. Later, het to Opelika, Alabama during his formative years and graduated from Opelika High School in the year 1990. According to Joe Thomas bio, after completing his graduation Joe took to professional singing seriously and began to write music and sing while working on temporary jobs.…
John Hart was born on a farm that he eventually purchased and resided in until his death. John Hart was a farmer, miller, and in 1755 began his public service as Justice of the Peace. In 1761 he was elected to the Colonial Legislature of New Jersey and served by reelection until 1771 when it was dissolved. The royal governor appointed him Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1774. In July of the same year he was elected to the First Provincial Congress of New Jersey. That body appointed him to the Committee of Correspondence in 1775. He also served as Chairman of the New Jersey Committee of Safety, 1776-7. He served with his congress until 1776, having been elected Vice-President, June 15, 1776. Seven days later he was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress along with Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkins, and…
John Turner was a Canadian prime minister who was born on the 7th of June 1929, in Richmond, England to an English father and a Canadian mother, and still alive to this day at the age of 85. However, his father passed away when he was only three years old, so his mother decided to move to Canada with John. They first lived in Rossland, British Colombia. However, she worked her way up in the civil service until she got promoted, which required moving to Ottawa (CanadaHistory).…
October 21, 1982, a Black male constrained his way into the home of a 28-year-old Caucasian woman in a neighborhood of St. Louis, by threating her with a knife, he robbed her of her jewelry and other expensive items and also sexually assaulted the woman numerous times (Briscoe, n.d.). In between the sexual acts, three cigarettes were smoked between the two (Briscoe, n.d.). The victimizer engaged in a conversation with the victim and asked her for her name. She gained confidence and followed by asking him for his name. He lied to her and said he was Johnny Briscoe. Prior to the attacker leaving, he shared that he would call her at a future time and soon after he left the woman called the police (Briscoe, n.d.).…
On the evening of September 15, 2017, Jackson Johnson, the father of a 10-month old baby, suddenly had a blood clot while riding his bicycle. He was found on the sidewalk in the countryside of Mississauga, Ontario.…
Do you know anything about Prime Ministers? This prime minister didn't rule a country, but ruled the “Underworld” in the late 1800s and early and middle 1900s. Frank Costello wasn't a normal mobster who ruled with force, but he ruled with his intelligence. He was affiliated with many famous mobsters. He owned different casinos and had his nose in everything alcohol during prohibition. Though he was associated with many illegal crimes he only went to jail two times and one was when he was 15. “Frank Costello was an Influential mobster.”…
Jack Johnson is a folk singer born in Oahu, Hawaii, 1975. Jack is known for his laid back, chill music. In today’s world, he plays soft rock and acoustic music. He is mostly known for his guitar play and vocals but he loves to play all instruments such as the drums, and likes to craft percussion on his guitar. In his earlier life, he was a profound, professional surfer and became heavily involved with Sports Illustrated, but he wanted more. He wanted to share more and eventually gave up his surfing career to sing and make music. His music is very islandly and relaxing and something you would listen to while visiting the beach. Jack Johnson started his career by recording for a very low-budgeted surfer movie in the late 1990s. Jack’s first published song was Rodeo Clowns and surprising was on a friend G. Love’s album, Philadelphonic in 1999.…
Shawn Johnson, 2008 Olympic gold medalist, was an amazing gymnast and a great role model. She was born in Iowa, but she went on to college in Tennessee. Shawn studied at the great college of Vanderbilt University. Shawn went through many hardships through her gymnastics career, but she never gave up.…
John Davison Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839 in Richford, New York. Both of his parents came to America from Germany. His father was William Avery Rockefeller and was not around much in Rockefeller’s childhood. This meant that John was influenced…
Ted Williams is a fifty-three year old former radio announcer who became homeless after battling drug and alcohol addiction. He lived each day in and out of homeless shelters and even found himself in prison. He became a beggar on the side of a Columbus Ohio road where he would hold up a sign with the catch…
Have you ever wished that you planned better for something? Maybe you could’ve prevented future problems by having a plan? Mark Zimmerman has been living with this regret for a good part of his adult life. This is his story of how he got out of debt.…
If you are looking for skilfully crafted cremation stones in Seaforth, consider T.Lyon & Son. A cremation stone or a monumental stone is an honourable way of remembering the deceased. It is also a way of paying your respects to the life once lived. As an alternative to cremation scattering, some families prefer to have the ashes placed in a convenient location or a place with special meaning, where the cremated ashes of their loved ones are placed in a cremation urn protected by a permanent monument or cremation stone.…
I cannot imagine being considered a different race at this point in my life; let alone being considered the “other” race by two different races. Gregory Howard and his brother, Mark, had to figure out this tough challenge at an early age in the 1950s during an enormous financial and racial struggle. Many people did not accept the difference in skin color and some refused to accept anything from the other side of the color line.…
The Warner brothers decided to keep making silent movies, but to use the new invention to record music to accompany the silent pictures. The record would replace the live musicians in the theater. Many small town theaters could only afford to hire a single piano-player to accompany their movies, but with these new sound movies, a recording of a full orchestra could be played, and the Warner brothers though that people would like this better. It also meant that the brothers got to choose for themselves what kind of music was heard alongside their movies, rather than each individual theater musician deciding what to play.…