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Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author.His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by ...
The Roma first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern European immigration to the United States in the 1880s until World War I. Two separate Romani subgroups settled in Chicago, the Machwaya and the Kalderash. The Machwaya came from Serbia and parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They settled on the Southeast Side of ...
During World War II and the Holocaust, the persecution of the Roma reached a peak during the Romani Holocaust (the Porajmos), the genocide which was perpetrated against them by Nazi Germany. In 1935, Roma living in Germany were stripped of citizenship by the Nuremberg laws and subsequently subjected to violence and imprisonment in concentration ...
Caren Gussoff – author [4] Ian Hancock – University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist [5] Amber L. Hollibaugh – writer, film-maker and political activist [6] Tini Howard – comics writer [7] Eugene Hütz – Ukrainian-born singer; Johns family – subjects of the National Geographic Channel reality television series "American Gypsies"
Walter Fitzwilliam Starkie CMG, CBE, Litt.D (9 August 1894 – 2 November 1976) was an Irish scholar, Hispanist, writer, and musician.His reputation is principally based on his popular travel writing: Raggle-Taggle (1933), Spanish Raggle-Taggle (1934) and Don Gypsy (1936).
They turned out to be emergency freight vessels built of wood during World War I. They were abandoned after the war. The Texas Historical Commission has documented the sites of dozens of such ...
They have also produced notable athletes, including boxers such as Henry Wharton and Billy Joe Saunders, as well as footballers like Freddy Eastwood. Didicoy ( Angloromani ; didikai, also diddicoy , diddykai ) is a term sometimes used to refer to a person of mixed Romani and Gorger (non-Romanichal) blood but is generally considered offensive.
The rural settlement is located 11 miles (16 kilometers) south-southeast of the Panther Junction visitor center in what is now the Big Bend National Park, and is accessible only by high-clearance vehicle. [2] The National Park Service maintains a back-country campground at Glenn Springs. [3]