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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 ...
McMillan is an unincorporated community in San Saba County, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , [ citation needed ] the community had a population of 15 in 2000. History
The site was first settled in 1871 by brothers Gustavus A. and Edwin S. Graham, primary shareholders in the Texas Emigration and Land Company of Louisville, Kentucky.The brothers moved to Texas after the Civil War, and after buying 125,000 acres (510 km 2) in then-vast Young County, helped to revitalize the area, the population of which had become badly depleted during the war.
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham; September 5, 1963 [1] – June 22, 2000) was a Texas death-row inmate who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 for the murder of 53-year-old Bobby Grant Lambert in Houston, Texas, on May 13, 1981.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. February 2024 1 Asahi, 21, Japanese professional ...
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Graham, Texas. Pages in category "People from Graham, Texas" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Fort Graham was a pioneer fort established in 1849 by Brevet Major R.A. Arnold (Companies F and I of the Second United States Dragoons) [1] at the site of Jose Maria Village, an Anadaca camp on the western edge of present-day Hill County, Texas. It remained in service until 1853, when settlements had moved further west.
Gordon McMillan (1927–2021), American ice hockey player; Gordon McMillan (born c. 1953), South African cricket and badminton player; Gordon MacMillan (1897–1986), British World War II general and hereditary chief of the Clan MacMillan; Graham McMillan (born 1936), soccer player; Hammy McMillan (born 1963), Scottish world champion curler