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Design of a cloth antimacassar Armchair with antimacassar-Sheffield Mayors Parlour Antimacassars on rail carriage seats. An antimacassar / ˌ æ n t ɪ m ə ˈ k æ s ər / is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath. [1]
Biography [ edit ] Woodward was born Angeline Lucille Crowell on December 12, 1915 in Pittsburg, Kansas to Colonel M. Jesse Crowell, a streetcar conductor and retired military officer from Detroit, Michigan, and his wife Ethel Smiley Crowell, a schoolteacher and one of the early women in Kansas to receive a Masters Degree from the University of ...
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [1] and long-time fugitive.On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared.
In 1971, he made a dismissive remark during his appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, "We all know that I stabbed my wife many years ago. We all know that". [ 13 ] Mailer's admission that the stabbing was "the one act I can look back on and regret for the rest of my life" in a 2000 interview, 40 years after the fact, marked his first public ...
After her husband's death she helped with the Metropolitan Opera and other charities. In her later years, she often gave speeches on her late husband's military career. President Ronald Reagan awarded her the Medal of Freedom in 1988 and the Philippine government gave her its Legion of Merit in 1993. [2] [3]
The FBI therefore took over the investigation of the deaths. [3] Four years later, the agency closed the case, unable to find any evidence that a crime had been committed. "There isn't any indication of anything else" beyond the fact of Archambeau and Bruguier's deaths, said Special Agent Matt Miller of the bureau's Sioux Falls field office.
Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard; December 21, 1926 – June 15, 2015) was a Christian missionary, author, and speaker.Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as Huaorani; also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern Ecuador.