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Before his death, a middle school was named in his honor, Ernest Childers Middle School, which is a part of Broken Arrow Public Schools and services grades 6th through 8th grade. The Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma is named in his honor, the Ernest Childers Outpatient Clinic.
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (/ ˈ ɜːr s k ɪ n ˈ tʃ ɪ l d ər z / [1]), was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish ...
The novel contains many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the East Frisia coast, and large parts of his logbook entries from an 1897 Baltic cruise "appear almost unedited in the book". [1] The yacht Dulcibella in the novel is based upon Vixen, the boat Childers used for his exploration. [16]
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 ...
Ernest Childers (1918–2005), American Army officer; Erskine Barton Childers (1929–1996), Irish UN civil servant; Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), 4th President of Ireland (1973–1974) Hugh Childers (1827–1896), British and Australian Liberal statesman; Jason Childers (born 1975), American Major League baseball player
"The Fappening" is a jocular portmanteau coined by combining the words "fap", an internet slang term for masturbation, and the title of the 2008 film The Happening.Though the term is a vulgarism originating either with the imageboards where the pictures were initially posted or Reddit, mainstream media outlets soon adopted the term themselves, such as the BBC.
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Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.