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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] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world. [4]
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
The people listed below were born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Nekoosa, Wisconsin. Pages in category "People from Nekoosa, Wisconsin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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 ...
Madison: August 24, 1970: Bombing at University of Wisconsin as protest of connections with military research during Vietnam War, a physics researcher was killed and three others injured: Murder of Lisa Ann French: Fond du Lac: October 31, 1973: 9-year old girl murdered and sexually assaulted by neighbor while trick-or-treating alone: Murder of ...
Nekoosa is a city in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. Its name derives from the Ho-Chunk word, "Nįįkuusra", "Nakrusa", or "Nįkusara" which translates to "running water". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The population was 2,580 at the 2010 census .
John Franklin Ritchey (January 5, 1923 – January 14, 2003) was an American professional baseball catcher. Listed at 5' 10" (1.78 m) tall, weighing 180 lb. (82 k) , he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]