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Lawrence Svobida (June 15, 1908 – August 3, 1984) was an American farmer during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and American writer. He is known for his work Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas, which was published in 1940, in which he details his experiences as a farmer in Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Great Plains region from 1929 to 1939.
Anna Smith Spark (born 1978 or 1979) is a British fantasy fiction writer and civil servant from Bishop's Stortford. She wrote a trilogy titled Empires of Dust as well as several other standalone works, and has been styled the "Queen of Grimdark ".
The Eagle's Nest is a historic home located at Phoenix, Baltimore County, Maryland.It is a large fieldstone dwelling begun, it is believed, in the 1690s and completed in 1802 on part of a 2500-acre tract named "The Valley of Jehosaphat" by Richard Smith, Jr., who was granted the land by Lord Baltimore in 1684 in recognition of Smith's service as the first attorney general of Maryland.
His son Richard Smith Jr. inherited the plantation in 1666 and invited militias from Massachusetts and Connecticut to use the property during King Philip's War. The house was burned in retaliation for the Great Swamp Fight , and the present structure was built in its place, originally as a saltbox house, and later modified into its current form.
Richard R. Smith is a management consultant, author, speaker, and academic. He serves as a professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), [ 1 ] Executive Advisor to the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School , and Founding Faculty Director of the Human Capital Development Lab. [ 2 ]
[6] [8] They had four children: James Smith (who died in 1970), Amy Smith Berylson, Robert Smith, and Debra Smith Knez. [6] His daughter is married to Brian Knez. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] His son, Robert Smith and son-in-law Brian Knez, were co-CEOs of Harcourt General until its sale then co-founded private equity shop Castanea Partners in 2001. [ 5 ]
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Quanah Parker (Comanche: Kwana, lit. ' smell, odor '; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation.He was likely born into the Nokoni ("Wanderers") band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, an Anglo-American who had been abducted as an eight-year-old child ...