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Evalyn Walsh married Edward Beale "Ned" McLean (the publishing heir whose family owned The Washington Post) in 1908, and after her father's death in April 1910 lived in the Walsh Mansion. [84] In 1910, Ned McLean bought the allegedly cursed Hope Diamond for his wife for $180,000 (although the purchase was not formalized until February 1911, and ...
The archives hold the original wills of Dolley Madison, Francis Scott Key, Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Woodrow Wilson, Alexander Graham Bell and Louis D. Brandeis. [2] It similarly preserves Mildred and Richard Loving's marriage certificate, Duke Ellington 's birth certificate, and the Architectural registration for Chloethiel Woodard Smith .
Comic Cavalcade Archives: 1 2005 1942–1943 All stories from Comic Cavalcade #1–3 1-4012-0658-1: DC Comics Rarities Archives: 1 2004 1939–1940, 1944 All stories from The New York World's Fair Comics #1–2; The Big All-American Comic Book #1 1-4012-0007-9: Doom Patrol Archives: 1 2002 1963–1964 My Greatest Adventure #80–85; Doom Patrol ...
The oldest of the Octagon's ghost legends is that of the mysterious ringing of the servant's call bells, just one of the legends linked to the African American slaves who once lived there. [17] When the house held bells to summon servants, the spirits of the dead slaves would announce their presence by ringing these bells loudly. [ 18 ]
Elliott O'Donnell in 1930. Elliott O'Donnell (27 February 1872 – 8 May 1965) was an English author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figure covered with spots, when he was five years old.
The city's previous central library, in Mount Vernon Square, was donated by industrialist Andrew Carnegie and dedicated in 1903.. A 1961 Booz Allen Hamilton report sponsored by the city government found that the library had become inadequate in size and technology, was located in what was now the city's "worst slum", and that "At any hour of the day or night, a collection of derelicts loaf ...
It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine. and later reprinted in her books The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton and Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters long after a business transgression where the character ...
Dixon Hawke was a fictional detective who was featured in the DC Thomson publications from 1912 to 2000. [1] Created in 1912 by an unknown author for DC Thomson he appeared in various publications including The Saturday Post, The Sunday Post, Adventure, [2] The Sporting Post, Topical Times, The Evening Telegraph and The Dixon Hawke Library.