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Pages in category "Sportspeople from Oak Ridge, Tennessee" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Raynella Bernardene Large was born on October 25, 1948, to Annie Irene (née Owens) and Dewey Ernest Large, a nuclear scientist [1] and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She attended Oak Ridge High School and graduated in 1966. [2]
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 ...
The Oak Ridger was established in 1949 by Alfred and Julia Hill. [2] It published its first edition on January 20 of that year. The first publisher was Don J. McKay. [1] The paper was owned for many years by the Hill family. [2] Dick Smyser was its long-time editor. The Hill family sold the paper to Stauffer Communications in 1987.
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. [9] It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak Ridge's nicknames include the Atomic City, [10] the Secret City, [11] and the City ...
In December 1942, the Army Corps transferred the 20-year-old Westcott to the Clinton Engineer Works at the then-secret Oak Ridge site. [5] He later recalled that: By November 1942, work was nearing completion on army camps, air bases, dams and enemy internment camps in seven southern states where I photographed many areas for site selection and construction progress reports for the US Corps of ...
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
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