Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Protestation of 1641 was an attempt to avert the English Civil War. Parliament passed a bill on 3 May 1641 requiring those over the age of 18 to sign the Protestation, an oath of allegiance to King Charles I and the Church of England, as a way to reduce the tensions across the realm. Signing them was a necessity in order to hold public office.
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
Francis Park is located between Eichelberger Street, Nottingham Avenue, Donovan Avenue and Tamm Avenue. [ 1 ] The park was named for David Rowland Francis (1850-1927), who had been the President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition , governor of Missouri and mayor of St. Louis (1885-1889), who donated 60 acres of land for the park as a gift to ...
The museums signature collection includes both national artifacts, as well as Missouri and St. Louis related materials, such as local colonial and native artifacts, Louisiana Purchase Exposition artifacts, and items relating to Charles Lindbergh and his trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. [4] A replica of the Spirit of St. Louis ...
Folk signed the Anti-Breeders Act, directly leading to the permanent closure of the St. Louis Fairground Track. St Louis Fairground Park Entrance, 1913. In 1908, after protracted political debate, the abandoned 132-acre (0.53 km 2) fairground was purchased from the association for park use by St. Louis for $700,000. The park was dedicated on ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
St. Louis’ top prosecutor charged a husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns as protesters marched outside their home.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A transgender woman’s use of the women’s locker room in a suburban St. Louis gym prompted a protest, a plan for a boycott and calls for an investigation by the state’s ...