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Madison: Home of Ely, the prominent Progressive economist who was attacked for advocating labor unions and whose academic freedom was supported in the "sifting and winnowing" statement. His house was designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Georgian revival style and built in 1896. 42: Farwell's Point Mound Group: Farwell's Point Mound Group
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 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.
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 .
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]
Point Basse refers to both a sharp bend in the Wisconsin River near present day Nekoosa, Wisconsin, as well as to a nearby historic village downstream from the point itself, the village no longer being in existence. Other historic spellings included Pointe Basse, Point Bas, and Point Boss.
Joseph Marcus Ritchie (b. 1946 in Elizabethton; †21 August 1989 in Washington D.C. [1]) was an American organist, choirmaster and composer. He often shortened his ...
Thomas Ritchey (January 19, 1801 – March 9, 1863) was an American politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio in the mid-19th century. Biography [ edit ]