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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Richard Henderson Molpus Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, on September 7, 1949, to Richard Henderson Molpus Sr. and Frances Blount. [1] [2] [3] He graduated from Philadelphia High School in 1967, and from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1971. [3]
The Downtown Philadelphia Historic District is a designated area within the city limits of Philadelphia, Mississippi in Neshoba County. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and is loosely bounded by the streets of Myrtle, Peachtree, Walnut, and Pecan. The district features a number of commercial buildings built in ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
Maybrook is a mansion and property located in Wynnewood, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in the Main Line suburban region just outside of Philadelphia. The mansion was built in 1881 as a summer home by liquor baron and real estate developer Henry C. Gibson and his wife, Mary B. Klett and six-year-old daughter Mary Klett "May" Gibson.
Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South [1] Will D. Campbell (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist ( Amite County ) [ 2 ] James Chaney (1943–1964), civil rights activist ( Meridian ) [ 3 ]
It is one of 32 post offices built in Mississippi during this time and serves as a key example of the architectural and historical impact of New Deal projects in rural America. [ 6 ] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1995, recognizing its historical and architectural importance.