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Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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Rancho Mirage, California
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Rancho Mirage is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, located between Cathedral City and Palm Desert, it is one of the nine cities of the Coachella Valley. Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the Cove communities, although the first modern settlements date back to the 1920s and 1930s, Rancho Mirage got its claim to fame after World War II. Several United States Presidents have vacationed at the Annenberg estate, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Ford later bought a house in Rancho Mirage and was living there at the time of his death in 2006. The Betty Ford Center, a world-renowned addiction rehabilitation center, is located in Rancho Mirage at the Eisenhower Medical Center, President Barack Obama has also used Sunnylands for summit meetings with world leaders during his administration. Rancho Mirage has twelve golf courses, also known as clubs or golf resorts. The citys first resort was the Thunderbird Guest Ranch, opened in 1946 for entertainers, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs runs the Agua Caliente Casino on the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Ramon Road off Interstate 10, opened in 2002. The casino is a destination for locals, tourists. In 2008 the tribal board completed the expansion of the Agua Caliente resort, a theater for top name entertainers opened in 2009. The First Family is heading west, according to the New York Post, the Obamas have reportedly purchased a house in Rancho Mirage, California. The climate of the Coachella Valley is influenced by the surrounding geography, high mountain ranges on three sides and a south-sloping valley floor all contribute to its unique and year-round warm climate, with the warmest winters in the western United States. Winters are warm with highs between 73–84 °F. Under 5 inches of precipitation are average, with over 348 days of sunshine per year. The 2010 United States Census reported that Rancho Mirage had a population of 17,218, the population density was 693.3 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Rancho Mirage was 15,267 White,256 African American,94 Native American,651 Asian,14 Pacific Islander,598 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,964 persons. The Census reported that 17,154 people lived in households,16 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 316 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 454 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 3,055 households were made up of individuals and 1,961 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 1.94. There were 4,825 families, the family size was 2.46
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Harry Lehrer
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Dr. Harry Lehrer was a licensed pharmacist, physician, and real estate speculator who owned the Bumiller Building in Los Angeles. Working as a stenographer for a grocery company, Lehrer took a California pharmacy board review course at night and was certified by examination as a pharmacist in 1924. Lehrer attended the University of Southern California and UCLA and he was a 1938 graduate of the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Lehrer received a Doctor of Medicine degree after the 1962 California legislation allowing an osteopath to convert his degree to an MD, while running a pharmacy in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, he was from time to time a robbery victim. In one instance, a 21-year-old medical student robbed Lehrer of $271, a judge sentenced the student to 10 years probation and summer vacation in the county jail. In 1938, Lehrer opened an office, La Clinica Sano. He spoke fluent Spanish, had a Spanish language radio program, Lehrer was unable to obtain financing to buy one additional building, a former Thrifty Drug Store, 133-135 South Broadway, its owner was Gabriel Laskin. When California did condemn the buildings, Hodge L. Dolle, the tenement buildings have since been demolished and the land, acquired by the state, has passed to the city and may become a public park. Lehrer bought the Bumiller Building from the estate of Lillian E. Schramm in 1956, built in 1906, the Bumiller Building, designed by the architects Morgan & Walls, was constructed of reinforced concrete in Renaissance Revival style. It is today part of the Los Angeles Historic Broadway Theater District, Lehrer was married to fashion designer Anne T. Hill. Dr. Clarence H. Nelson treated Lehrer when he became ill in 1960, Lehrer is interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery
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Roy W. Hill
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Roy William Hill was an automobile dealer, philanthropist, and early trustee and benefactor of Eisenhower Medical Center. Hill was the son of Maurice C, Hill, a sheet metal worker, and Bulah A. Hill. Hill spent 25 years with General Motors, initially in Dallas and he rose to be Dallas Regional Manager for Chevrolet and testified for the company in a 1939 antitrust suit. He resigned to establish his own retail business and extended the business to nine Texas cities, New Mexico. In 1964, the Custom Tailors Guild of America named Hill as one of Americas ten best dressed men, Hill was among the early trustees of Eisenhower Medical Center and was elected concurrently with Martha Hyer. He subsequently participated in the raising of more than a million dollars for the Medical Center, Hill died in Rancho Mirage, California in 1986, and is buried in Desert Memorial Park
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Edgar L. McCoubrey
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Edgar Louis McCoubrey was a Canadian-American automobile dealer and politician who was the 10th Mayor of Palm Springs, California. McCoubrey was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland and he immigrated to the US on August 26,1920, and became a naturalized citizen on February 6,1940. McCoubrey began his career in 1926 with General Motors Acceptance Corporation as a credit manager. In 1936 McCoubrey and his wife, Jean Lyon Daynes McCoubrey, acquired a dealership, Rubidoux Motor Co. in Riverside, California, the partners opened Palm Springs Plaza Motors in 1938 with the same makes, adding Pontiac and Buick in 1996. A famous customer who got away was Elvis Presley and we explained that we didnt keep black cars in stock because of the desert climate, McCoubrey said. We could order one for him, but he didnt want to wait, McCoubrey was the 10th Mayor of Palm Springs, California, April 19,1966 – April 24,1967. He was chairman of a rally hosted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, as Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce President, McCoubrey received President John F. Kennedy during a 1963 visit. McCoubrey was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from California,1972, McCoubrey died in Rancho Mirage in 2001. The Edgar McCoubrey Memorial Scholarship Award was established in his memory, Edgar Louis Ed McCoubrey at Find a Grave
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University of Georgia
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Its primary location is a 762-acre campus adjacent to the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hours drive from the global city of Atlanta. The university has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. The university was founded in 1785 as the United States first state-chartered university and its historic North Campus is on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district. The contiguous campus areas include rolling hills, gardens, and extensive green space including nature walks, fields, shrubbery, and large and varied arboreta. Close to the campus is the universitys 58-acre Health Sciences Campus that also has an extensive landscaped green space, more than 400 trees. The university offers over 140 degree programs in an array of disciplines. Consisting of thirteen separate libraries, the UGA Libraries rank among the nation’s largest and best research libraries containing 5.7 million volumes, the University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries. The university is organized into seventeen schools and colleges, the university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the campus in Athens that has 460 buildings. The university has two campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state, the total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres. Varsity and intramural student athletics are a part of student life. UGA served as a member of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the marching band of the university, plays at sports. The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards, the first meeting of the universitys board of trustees was held in Augusta, Georgia on February 13,1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut, Baldwin was a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and one of two Georgia delegates to sign the final document. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale, on July 2,1799, the Senatus Academicus met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to open the university
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Vogue (magazine)
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Vogue is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine made up of many components including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway. Vogue began as a newspaper in 1892 in the United States. The British Vogue was the first international edition launched in 1916, Turnures intention was to create a publication that celebrated the ceremonial side of life, one that attracts the sage as well as debutante, men of affairs as well as the belle. From its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York upper class, the magazine at this time was primarily concerned with fashion, with coverage of sports and social affairs included for its male readership. Despite the magazines content, it very slowly during this period. Condé Montrose Nast purchased Vogue in 1905 one year before Turnures death and he changed it to a bi-weekly magazine and started Vogue overseas in the 1910s. Under Nast, the magazine shifted its focus to women. The magazines number of publications and profit increased dramatically under Nasts management, by 1911, the Vogue brand had garnered a reputation that it continues to maintain, targeting an elite audience and expanding into the coverage of weddings. According to Condé Naste Russia, after the First World War made deliveries in the Old World impossible, the decision to print in England proved to be successful causing Nast to release the first issue of French Vogue in 1920. The magazines number of subscriptions surged during the Great Depression, during this time, noted critic and former Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield served as its editor, having been moved over from Vanity Fair by publisher Condé Nast. In July of 1932, American Vogue placed its first color photograph on the cover of the magazine, the photograph was taken by photographer Edward Steichen and portrays a woman swimmer holding a beach ball in the air. Nast was responsible for introducing color printing and the two-page spread and he greatly impacted the magazine and turned it into a successful business and the womens magazine we recognize today and greatly increased the sales volumes until his death in 1942. Toward this end, Vogue extended coverage to include East Village boutiques such as Limbo on St, marks Place, as well as including features of downtown personalities such as Andy Warhols Superstar Jane Holzers favorite haunts. Vogue also continued making household names out of models, a practice continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Penelope Tree. In 1973, Vogue became a monthly publication, under editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella, the magazine underwent extensive editorial and stylistic changes to respond to changes in the lifestyles of its target audience. Mirabella states that she was chosen to change Vogue because women werent interested in reading about or buying clothes that served no purpose in their changing lives and she was selected to make the magazine appeal to the the free, working, liberated woman of the seventies. She changed the magazine by adding text with interviews, arts coverage, when that type of stylihtic ceange f ell out of favor in the 1980s, Mirabella was brutally fired. Her take on it, For a magazine devoted to style, in July of 1988, after Vogue had began to lose ground to a three-year-old upstart Elle, Anna Wintour was named editor-in-chief
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Harper's Bazaar
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Harpers Bazaar is an American womens fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harpers Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the resource for women who are the first to buy the best. Writers Alice Meynell, Daisy Fellowes, Gloria Guinness, and Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, when Harpers Bazaar began publication, it was a weekly magazine catering to women in the middle and upper classes. It showcased fashion from Germany and Paris in a newspaper-design format and it was not until 1901 that Harpers moved to a monthly issued magazine which it maintains today. Now Harpers Bazaar is owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation in the U. S. harper & Brothers founded the magazine. This company also gave birth to Harpers Magazine and HarperCollins Publishing, glenda Bailey is the editor-in-chief of U. S. edition of Harpers Bazaar. As the turn-of-the-century began in America, Harpers Bazaar began featuring both illustrations and photographs for its covers and inside features of society and increasingly of fashion. During the late Victorian period, as the suffrage movement was gaining momentum. Bazaar also began profiling prominent socialites, such as the Astors, in 1933, editor-in-chief Carmel Snow brought photojournalist Martin Munkacsi to a windswept beach to shoot a swimwear spread. As the model ran toward the camera, Munkacsi took the picture that made fashion-magazine history, until that moment, nearly all fashion was carefully staged on mannequin-like models in a studio. Snows buoyant spirit and wicked sense of adventure brought life to the pages of Bazaar, Snows genius came from cultivating the best people. Her first big find was art director Alexey Brodovitch, who innovated Bazaars iconic Didot logo, Snow also unleashed the force of nature known as Diana Vreeland, whom she brought on as fashion editor in 1936. The collaboration of these four visionaries resulted in some of the germane fashion shoots of the 20th century and ended only with Snows retirement, at the age of 70, throughout his career at the magazine, Brodovitch, a Russian émigré, revolutionized magazine design. With his directive Astonish me, he inspired some of the greatest visual artists of the 20th century, one of his assistants was future Rolling Stone art director Tony Lane. Sadly, Brodovitchs personal life was less triumphant, plagued by alcoholism, he left Bazaar in 1958 and eventually moved to the south of France, where he died in 1971. Diana, who is said to have invented the word pizzazz, before long, she became fashion editor, collaborating with photographers Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Richard Avedon and, later, art director Henry Wolf. Her eccentricity, perception and wit, as well as her sharp wit and sweeping pronouncements, were memorialized in the movie Funny Face, making her, for many, Richard Avedon began creating fashion portfolios for Harpers Bazaar at the age of 22. His distinctive photographs showed both chic insouciance and boundless vitality, avedons women leapt off curbs, roller-skated on the Place de la Concorde, and were seen in nightclubs, enjoying the freedom and fashions of the postwar era
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Women's Wear Daily
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Womens Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called the bible of fashion. It is the publication of Fairchild Fashion Media, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. The publisher of WWD is Paul Jowdy, and its editor-in-chief is Edward Nardoza, the final newsprint edition of WWD was printed on April 24,2015, and a weekly edition was launched on April 29,2015. The journal was founded by Edmund Fairchild on July 13,1910, john Fairchild, who became the European bureau chief of Fairchild Publications in 1955 and the publisher of WWD in 1960, improved WWDs standing by focusing on the human side of fashion. He turned his newspapers attention to the scene of fashion designers and their clients. Fairchild also played hardball to help his circulation, after two couturiers forbade press coverage until one month after buyers had seen their clothes, Fairchild published photos and sketches anyway. He even sent reporters to fashion houses disguised as messengers, or had them observe designers new styles from windows of buildings opposite fashion houses, I have learned in fashion to be a little savage, he wrote in his memoir. John Fairchild was publisher of the magazine from 1960 to 1996, under Fairchild, the companys feuds were also legendary. When a designers statements or work offended Fairchild, he would retaliate, in response, some designers forbade their representatives from speaking to WWD reporters or disinvited WWD reporters from their fashion shows. In general, though, those excluded kept their mouths shut, in 1999, Fairchild Publications was sold by the Walt Disney Company to Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast Publications. As a result, Fairchild Publications became a unit of Condé Nast, though WWD was technically operated separately from Condé Nasts consumer publications such as Vogue, on August 19,2014, Conde Nast sold Womens Wear Daily to Penske Media Corporation. The purchase by PMC included WWDs sister publications Footwear News, Menswear, M Magazine, on April 12,2015, Womens Wear Daily announced on their website that they will launch a weekly print format from April 23 on. A Daily Digital edition of WWD is also available to subscribers, isadore Barmash, Edward Gold, Marvin Klapper, Sandy Parker, Sidney Rutberg, Mort Sheinman & Stanley Siegelman. Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era, Inside Womens Wear Daily—A Look Back
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a U. S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its rival, The Dallas Morning News. It is owned by The McClatchy Company, in May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1,1906, the Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea, raise additional money and purchase his newspapers main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram. In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, the newspaper created WBAP in 1922 and Texas first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948. The Star-Telegram’s circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area and 14 surrounding counties, the newspapers primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the part of the fourth-largest U. S. metropolitan area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as a metro area,1981 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, Larry C. Price for his photographs from Liberia,1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Mark Thompson for reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U. S. The Star-Telegram is the nations oldest continuously operating online newspaper, starText, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the papers current website. List of newspapers in Texas Dallas-Fort Worth portal Journalism portal Flemmons, Amon, The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America. The Star-Telegram official site The Star-Telegram official mobile site 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U. S. by Circulation
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Bergdorf Goodman
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Bergdorf Goodman is a luxury goods department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The company was founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and was owned and managed by Edwin Goodman. Today, Bergdorf operates from two stores situated across the street from each other at Fifth Avenue between 57th and 58th streets, Bergdorf Goodmans main store, which opened at its current location in 1928, is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue. A separate mens store, established in 1990, is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf is a subsidiary of Neiman Marcus, which is owned by the private equity firm Ares Management. The company traces its origins to 1899 when Herman Bergdorf, an immigrant from Alsace, France, Edwin Goodman, a 23-year-old merchant, based in Lockport, New York, moved to New York City to work as an apprentice for Bergdorf. Within two years, Goodman had raised money to purchase an interest in the business, which was renamed Bergdorf Goodman in 1901. In 1906, Bergdorf Goodman moved to a new location on 32nd Street, just west of Fifth Avenue, while Bergdorf preferred the less expensive side street location, Goodman prevailed with the new location and bought Bergdorfs interest in the company. Although Goodman had developed a business as a ladies tailor on 32nd Street. Goodman constructed a building at 616 Fifth Avenue, on the site of what is today Rockefeller Center. In 1914, Goodman became the first couturier to introduce ready-to-wear, making Bergdorf Goodman a destination for American, the store moved to its present location at 5th Avenue and 58th Street in 1928, building its Beaux-Arts style store on the site of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion. He was unsure of the success of the new stores location, so, Goodman designed the new store so that it could be subdivided into sections with storefronts that could be rented out if needed. Early tenants included Van Cleef & Arpels, the Grande Maison de Blanc, during the Great Depression, however, Goodman thrived, buying the entire building. Throughout the 1930s, Goodman purchased the mortgages of the surrounding businesses, during this period, Bergdorf Goodman was successful enough to have merited an expansion beyond the single store. However, Goodman preferred to operate in a location where he would be able to personally maintain the quality of the merchandise. Goodmans son, Andrew, assumed the role of president in 1951 and succeeded as head of the company in 1953, Andrew was responsible for enhancing Bergdorfs reputation and expanding its range of merchandise and services. During Andrews tenure as chairman, Bergdorf opened a fur salon, developed the successful Bergdorf Goodman Number Nine perfume, and created Miss Bergdorf, the store began a $1 million expansion in 1959 into two adjacent buildings. The Boys and Girls gift shop expanded into a floor. Eight years later, a $2.5 million expansion in 1967 nearly doubled the stores area, in 1972, Andrew Goodman sold Bergdorf Goodman to Broadway-Hale Stores, which would become Carter Hawley Hale Stores for $12.5 million
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Garfinckel's
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Garfinckels was a prominent department store chain based in Washington, D. C. that catered to a clientele of wealthy consumers. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 1990 and ceased operations that year and this retail mercantile business was founded in 1905, as Julius Garfinkel & Co. by Julius Garfinckel, originally employing 10 clerks. In 1946, it acquired the mens specialty retailer, Brooks Brothers and in 1950 and it formed the national retail conglomerate, Garfinckel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads, Inc. after acquisition of the Miller & Rhoads chain in 1967. In 1977, the acquired the Ann Taylor womens fashion store chain. In 1981, the conglomerate consisted of close to 190 stores in seven chains and that same year, Allied Stores acquired Garfinckel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads, Inc. for $228 million. In 1986, Campeau Corp. acquired Allied, and in sold the Garfinkels chain to locally owned Raleighs for $95 million, forming Garfinkels. Garfinkels grew and expanded into a chain of stores, but was pushed into financial collapse due to a series of mergers. On June 21,1990, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by its chairman and CEO George P. Kelly, in 1918, the store was located at 13th and F Streets. An eight-story department store building was erected at the northwest corner of 14th and F Streets, across from the Willard Hotel, the $2,000,000 structure was designed by architects Starrett & van Vleck of New York. By 1936, there were more than 500 employees, from 1997 to 1999, the property was redeveloped into a modern office building and shopping center that is referred to as Hamilton Square. Garfinckels flagship store reputation was not without controversy and it was both widely known and acknowledged that blacks were not welcome at the flagship store and in fact, were not permitted to try on clothing. This may in fact have hurt the store during the part of the 20th century. Unlike its local competitors, the Hecht Company, Woodward & Lothrop. The first suburban store was an anchor at the Seven Corners Shopping Center upon opening in 1956. After that, its Montgomery Mall store opened in 1968 and it also operated a 35, 000-square-foot Spring Valley Shopping Center store in the Spring Valley section of Washington, D. C. at 4820 Massachusetts Avenue. The Springfield Mall store opened in January 1973, convinced that the company had expanded enough and that the premiere 170, 000-square-foot downtown location would continue to prosper, Garfinkels did not expand again until the early-1980s. Stores opened in the early 1980s at Annapolis Mall, Fair Oaks Mall, and these would be the last new Garfinkels suburban locations. Nine locations were in operation at the time of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990, the Garfinckels Department Store Records are held at the Library of Congress
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Gypsy Boots
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Gypsy Boots, born Robert Bootzin, was an American fitness pioneer, actor and writer. He is credited with laying the foundation for the acceptance by mainstream America of alternative lifestyles such as yoga and his books Barefeet and Good Things to Eat and the memoir, The Gypsy in Me, gained him a cult following. Bootzin was born in San Francisco, California to Russian Jewish immigrants and his father, Max, was a broom salesman. Bootzins older brother, John, died of tuberculosis as a young man, by 1933, he had dropped out of high school and left home to wander California with a group of self-styled vagabonds. In the 1940s, Bootzin, along with 10-15 other tribesmen, lived off the land in Tahquitz Canyon near Palm Springs, slept in caves and trees, and bathed in waterfalls. Decades ahead of the Hippie movement, Bootzin and his companions had long hair and beards, the group became known as Nature Boys. A combination of the philosophy of the Nature Boys and growing counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s in California may have been responsible for the emergence of California spirituality in the 1960s. The 1948 Nat King Cole hit Nature Boy was inspired by Bootzin and his fellow tribesmen, in 1958, Bootzin married Lois Bloemker, a conservative, academic woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana and settled in the Hollywood area. They had three children, Daniel, Alex and Freddie, the two divorced in the late 1990s. His health food store Health Hut was one of the first of its kind in the world, the original Health Hut, located on Beverly Blvd just west of La Cienega Blvd, had an authentic Tiki style to it made with leaves and bamboo. Bootzin personally advocated never eating meat, drinking alcohol, or smoking tobacco and he was an early believer in the health properties of organic foods. One of these organic foods was garlic—and he later became a spokesperson for the Kyolic variety and he also did work for a Sonoma cheese factory. His childhood vegetarian lifestyle was something Bootzin continued with his own family as his son Daniel Bootzin corroborated, when friends came over, Bootzin said his parents offered the guests fresh carrot juice, a novelty in the 1960s. Bootzin died in Camarillo, California, just 11 days short of his 90th birthday and he was survived by his former wife, Lois Bootzin, a Lutheran, two of his sons Daniel and Alexander, three grandchildren, and a sister. His son Freddy died in 2001, Bootzin received national exposure in 1955, when he appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marxs network TV show You Bet Your Life. Introduced as Boots Bootzin, he espoused his philosophy of clean living, exercise. Even though he was over 40, he acted like a gangly, goofy, when asked by Groucho to demonstrate how he sold figs, he stepped toward the edge of the stage, shouted an attention-getting sales pitch for a few seconds, and then performed a perfect pratfall. In the game portion of the show, he whispered the spelling of the word motif to his partner
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Indra Devi
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Eugenie V. Peterson, known as Indra Devi, was a Russian yoga teacher who was an early disciple of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. In Berlin, she became an actress and dancer, devis fascination with India began at 15, when she read a book by poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and a yoga instruction book by Yogi Ramacharaka. In 1927, she sailed for India and adopted a name that would sound Hindu. In 1930, she married Jan Strakaty, a commercial attache to the Czechoslovak consulate in Bombay, there were many Americans and Russians among her pupils. More and more began to call her Mataji, which means mother. Indra Devi was giving lectures on yoga, including lessons in orphanages. Following the unexpected death of her husband, with eight years of teaching taken from India the renowned guru left for the United States in 1947. A year later she opened a studio in Hollywood. Indra Devi used her Indian teachings to lay claim to her own forms of yoga, later in life, Indra Devi stressed that her method relied on the Indian classical yoga of Patanjali. She taught Greta Garbo, Eva Gabor, and Gloria Swanson, also, among her students were Robert Ryan, Jennifer Jones, and the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Contrary to popular belief, there is no record of her ever teaching Marilyn Monroe, while Monroe did own her book Forever Young, Forever Happy, there is no proof that the two women met in person. A popular photo that shows Eva Gabor training with Devi in 1960 is commonly mistaken for Monroe, in 1953 Indra married the well-known German physician Dr. Sigfrid Knauer. In the mid-1950s she was granted American citizenship and put her Indra Devi pseudonym in her new passport, in 1961 Indra Devi opened the Indra Devi Foundation in Tecate México, in Rancho Cuchumá. Mataji was very close to Sathya Sai Baba a Hindu guru and traveled often from her Yoga Foundation in Tecate Mexico to Bangalore, in 1982 she moved to Argentina. In 1987 she was elected president of honor of the International Yoga Federation and Latin American Union of Yoga under the presidency of Swami Maitreyananda at Montevideo, Uruguay. Yoga Feminist, Yoga Icon, Indra Devi 2013 FUNDACION INDRA DEVI - Indra Devi foundation A portrait of the First Lady of Yoga, Russia&India Report 2010/11/22
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George H. W. Bush
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George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and he is the oldest living former President and Vice President. Prior to his sons presidency, he was referred to as George Bush or President Bush. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the U. S. Navy on his 18th birthday and he served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, Bush became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives and Director of Central Intelligence, among other positions. He failed to win the Republican nomination for President in 1980, but was chosen as a mate by party nominee Ronald Reagan. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation, in 1988, Bush ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as President, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency, military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and, after a struggle with Congress and his presidential library was dedicated in 1997, and he has been active—often alongside Bill Clinton—in various humanitarian activities. Besides being the 43rd president, his son George also served as the 46th Governor of Texas and is one of only two other being John Quincy Adams—to be the son of a former president. His second son, Jeb Bush, served as the 43rd Governor of Florida, George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12,1924, to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Bush. The Bush family moved from Milton to Greenwich, Connecticut, shortly after his birth, growing up, his nickname was Poppy. Bush began his education at the Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US, Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18. He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron as the officer in September 1943. The following year, his squadron was based on USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, during this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II, the Battle of the Philippine Sea. After Bushs promotion to Lieutenant on August 1,1944, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands, Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima
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Barbara Bush
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Barbara Bush is the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd President, and Jeb Bush and she served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Barbara Pierce was born in Flushing, New York and she attended Milton Public School from 1931 to 1937, and Rye Country Day School from 1937-1940. She graduated from Ashley Hall School in Charleston, South Carolina and she met George Herbert Walker Bush at age 16, and the two married in Rye, New York in 1945, while he was on leave during his deployment as a Naval officer in World War II. While George was attending Yale University at age 22, Barbara and George were living in New Haven, Connecticut and had their first son, George Walker Bush, on July 6,1946. The Bush family soon moved to Midland, Texas, where their son, Jeb was born in, on February 11,1953, as George Bush entered political life. While First Lady of the United States, Barbara Bush worked to advance the cause of universal literacy, Barbara Pierce was born at Booth Memorial Hospital in Flushing, Queens, in New York City, and raised in the suburban town of Rye, New York. She is the child of Pauline and her husband Marvin Pierce, who later became president of McCall Corporation. Her siblings include Martha Pierce Rafferty, James Pierce, and Scott Pierce and her ancestor Thomas Pierce, Jr. an early New England colonist, was also an ancestor of Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. She is the cousin, four times removed, of Franklin Pierce. Barbara attended Rye Country Day School from 1931 to 1937 and later boarding school at Ashley Hall in Charleston and she was athletic as a youth and enjoyed swimming, tennis, and bike-riding. Her interest in reading began early in her life, she recalls gathering with her family during the evenings and she met George Herbert Walker Bush, a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts at age 16 during a dance while on Christmas vacation. After a year-and-a-half, the two became engaged to be married, just before he went off to World War II as a Navy torpedo bomber pilot and he named three of his planes after her, Barbara, Barbara II, and Barbara III. Over the next 13 years, George and Barbara Bush had six children also they have fourteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren and they have twin daughters and two granddaughters. Pauline Robinson Robin Bush died of leukemia at the age of three, john Ellis Jeb Bush married Columba Gallo on 23 February 1974. They have three children and four grandchildren, Neil Mallon Bush married Sharon Smith in 1980 and divorce in April 2003. They have three children and one grandson and he remarried Maria Andrews in 2004. Marvin Pierce Bush married Margaret Molster in 1981, dorothy Doro Bush Koch she married William LeBlond in 1982 and divorce in 1990
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Gerald Ford
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon. Prior to this he served eight months as the 40th Vice President of the United States, before his appointment to the vice presidency, Ford served 25 years as U. S. Representative from Michigans 5th congressional district, the nine of them as the House Minority Leader. As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War, with the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U. S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation, one of his most controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Fords presidency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, in the Republican presidential primary campaign of 1976, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination. Arthur not to be elected in his own right, following his years as President, Ford remained active in the Republican Party. After experiencing health problems, he died at home on December 26,2006, Ford lived longer than any other U. S. president –93 years and 165 days – while his 895-day presidency was the shortest of all presidents who did not die in office. Gerald Rudolph Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14,1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. His mother was Dorothy Ayer Gardner and his father was Leslie Lynch King Sr. a wool trader, Dorothy separated from King just sixteen days after her sons birth. She took her son with her to the Oak Park, Illinois, home of her sister Tannisse and brother-in-law, from there, she moved to the home of her parents, Levi Addison Gardner and Adele Augusta Ayer, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dorothy and King divorced in December 1913, she gained custody of her son. Fords paternal grandfather Charles Henry King paid child support until shortly before his death in 1930, Ford later said his biological father had a history of hitting his mother. James M. Ford later told confidantes that his father had first hit his mother on their honeymoon for smiling at another man. After two and a half years with her parents, on February 1,1916, Dorothy married Gerald Rudolff Ford and they then called her son Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. The future president was never adopted, and did not legally change his name until December 3,1935. He was raised in Grand Rapids with his three half-brothers from his mothers marriage, Thomas Gardner Tom Ford, Richard Addison Dick Ford. Ford also had three half-siblings from the marriage of Leslie King, Sr. his biological father, Marjorie King, Leslie Henry King
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Alex Dreier
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Alexander M. Dreier was an American news reporter and commentator who worked with NBC Radio during the 1940s, and later with the ABC Information Radio network in the 1960s and early 1970s. Dreier then became an actor and appeared in a number of TV series, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dreier attended Stanford University, graduating in 1939. He then went into journalism, and was covering Berlin for United Press when he joined NBC in 1941, during his year in Berlin he was under surveillance by the Gestapo, and he left the city one day before the Pearl Harbor attack. His commentary aired on NBC on Saturdays from 1942 to 1945, known as Chicagos Man on the Go, Dreier was the citys top TV anchor during his years on NBC-owned WNBQ-TV, serving as a news reporter and anchor. He also handled news for NBC-TVs Today on the Farm from 1960-61 and he was replaced as WMAQ anchor by Floyd Kalber in 1962, he then moved to ABC owned-and-operated WBKB-TV. From 1959 to 1964, Dreier also co-hosted the television program Championship Bridge with Charles Goren and these can still be seen on the Arts Channel of TV4U. com. Dreier showed courage at a time of tension on Chicagos South Side. If a black family dared move even one block across one of these lines, one night, Dreier began the most memorable broadcast of his career with words like, The streets of one South Side Chicago neighborhood are quiet tonight, because of the decision of one black family. Dreier then blasted the white demonstrators who gathered around the familys house. Pressure was put on his sponsor, Meister Brau Beer, which was removed from many white neighborhood taverns. The white backlash against this broadcast probably ended Dreiers career as an anchorman in Chicago. He served as chairman of the board for the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, in 1989, he was inducted into the Illinois Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Dreier served on the boards of trustees of institutions including Shimer College, Dreier died on March 11,2000 in Rancho Mirage, California. He is buried in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, reaction of children listening to Alex Dreier during WWII Ron Moody
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Bob Hope
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Bob Hope KBE, KC*SG, KSS was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, centenarian and author. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in over 70 feature films and short films, in addition to hosting the Academy Awards 19 times, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and was the author of 14 books. The song Thanks for the Memory is widely regarded as Hopes signature tune, born in Eltham, Kent, Hope arrived in America with his family at the age of four and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his career in business in the early 1920s, initially on stage. He was praised for his timing, specializing in one-liners and rapid-fire delivery of jokes. He also appeared in numerous specials for NBC television, starting in 1950, Hope participated in the sports of golf and boxing and owned a small stake in his hometown baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. He died at age 100 at his home in Toluca Lake, Hope was born in Eltham, Kent the fifth of seven sons. They married in April 1891 and lived at 12 Greenwood Street in Barry, before moving to Whitehall, Bristol, and then St George, Bristol. In 1908, the family emigrated to the United States aboard the SS Philadelphia and passed through Ellis Island on March 30,1908, before moving to Cleveland, from age 12, Hope earned pocket money by busking, singing, dancing, and performing comedy. He entered many dancing and amateur talent contests and won a prize in 1915 for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin, for a time, he attended the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster, Ohio. As an adult, he donated sizable sums of money to the institution, Hope had a brief career as a boxer in 1919, fighting under the name Packy East. He had three wins and one loss and participated in a few staged charity bouts later in life, Hope worked as a butchers assistant and a lineman in his teens and early twenties. Hope also had a stint at Chandler Motor Car Company. Deciding on a business career, he and his girlfriend signed up for dancing lessons. Encouraged after they performed in an engagement at a club, Hope formed a partnership with Lloyd Durbin. Silent film comedian Fatty Arbuckle saw them perform in 1925 and found work with a touring troupe called Hurleys Jolly Follies. Within a year, Hope had formed an act called the Dancemedians with George Byrne, Hope and Byrne had an act as a pair of Siamese twins as well and danced and sang while wearing blackface before friends advised Hope that he was funnier as himself. In 1929, Hope informally changed his first name to Bob, in one version of the story, he named himself after racecar driver Bob Burman
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Eisenhower Medical Center
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The Eisenhower Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital based in Rancho Mirage, California serving the Coachella Valley region of southeastern California. It was named one of the top one hundred hospitals in the United States in 2005, named for U. S. President Dwight D. The original 80 acres of land were donated by Bob and Dolores Hope, the main Eisenhower hospital, designed by Edward Durrell Stone, opened in November 1971, containing 289 beds. Among the early trustees were actress Martha Hyer and Roy W Hill, the three original medical buildings were named for local philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Walter Probst, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kiewit and Mrs. Hazel Wright. Philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg donated funds to establish the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, a $212.5 million, four story, state-of-the-art addition to the hospital, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Pavilion, opened for patient care on November 2,2010. Lee Annenberg donated over $100 million to Campaign Eisenhower, Phase II, other institutions on the campus include the Barbara Sinatra Childrens Center and the Dolores Hope Outpatient Care Center. Dolores Hope served in the capacities of President, Chairman of the Board and Chairman Emeritus since 1968, by 1990, the hospitals 3000th open heart surgical procedure was performed. The work that the Hopes placed in the Eisenhower Medical Center continued to earn them worldwide accolades and honors, the centers twenty-fifth anniversary in 1996 saw the Hopes receive its most prestigious award, the Eisenhower Centennial Award. The facilitys new Walter and Leonore Annenberg Pavilion, an inpatient pavilion connected to the end of the existing hospital. Ground-breaking for the project was three years earlier, in 2007. The $215 million project was the twelfth-largest construction project undertaken in the State of California, Eisenhower Medical Center has many outpatient departments that range from primary care offices, laboratories, and urgent care centers. Eisenhower has three urgent cares conveniently located, the Eisenhower Urgent care in Palm Springs is located on the corner of Sunrise Way and Tahquitz. You can also find primary care facilities on the grounds where the urgent care is located. The Eisenhower Urgent Care in Rancho Mirage is located on the North West corner of Monterey and Country Club drive, in the Rancho Mirage Medical Center. The last Eisenhower Urgent Care is in the city of La Quinta, Eisenhower Urgent Cares offers a variety of services and are equipped with x-ray facilities. Eisenhower Urgent Cares are on a walk in basis that treat minor cases. Eisenhower Urgent Cares always staff medical doctors, physician assistants, the medical staff is made up of medical assistants, license vocational nurses, registered nurses, and certified radiology technicians. Eisenhower Urgent Cares take all PPO insurance plans and certain HMO insurance plans, comedian Red Skelton died of an undisclosed illness at the facility on September 17,1997 at the age of 84
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Lynne Roberts
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Lynne Roberts, also credited as Mary Hart, was born Theda May Roberts. She was an American film actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood who appeared exclusively in what were referred to as B-movies, born in El Paso, Texas, Roberts was the daughter of Hobart M. Roberts, a bookkeeper, and May Holland. The family moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s, Roberts began working as an actress in the 1930s, under contract to Republic Pictures. At the age of 14, in 1936, she played a role in Bulldog Edition, in 1938, at age 16, she starred in the cliffhangers, The Lone Ranger and Dick Tracy Returns, and played a role in The Higgins Family. She was officially listed in records as having been born in 1919. In 1941 she starred with Sonja Henie and John Payne in Sun Valley Serenade and she returned to Republic Pictures in 1944, and stayed under contract there until 1948. She starred with Gene Autry in Sioux City Sue in 1946, after leaving Republic Pictures for the second time, Roberts worked with Autry in outdoor adventures for Columbia Pictures. She also worked with Kirby Grant in Monogram Pictures mounted-police adventures, all told, Roberts appeared in 64 films. Of those,21 were westerns, and two are serials and her first marriage was to William Engelbert, Jr. an aircraft company official, with whom she had one son, Bill. The marriage ended in divorce in 1944 and her second marriage was to Louis John Gardella, which also ended in divorce. In court, Gardellas attorney argued that the couples Arizona wedding was invalid because Roberts was not legally divorced from Engelbert, in 1953, Roberts married brassiere manufacturer Hyman B. Samuels, with whom she had a daughter, Peri Margaret, the couple divorced November 14,1961, in Los Angeles, California. Following that divorce, Roberts retired from acting and later married pro wrestler Don Sebastian in 1971, lynne Roberts was the sister of actor John S. Roberts. On December 16,1977, she had an accident in her home and suffered severe head fractures. She went into a coma and died a few months later on April 1,1978, from hemorrhaging
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Hyman B. Samuels
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Hyman Bernard Samuels was a brassiere manufacturer and third husband of B-picture heroine Lynne Roberts. Hyman Samuels was the son of Sam Samuels, a Russian immigrant tailor, Hyman Samuels worked as a salesman of womens apparel, then became a brassiere manufacturer. On May 3,1953, actress Lynne Roberts announced that she planned to wed Hyman Samuels on June 6, her third marriage, the ceremony took place at Ontario, California. Roberts retired from acting after her marriage at the urging of her husband and she gave birth to a daughter in 1955. Hyman Samuels formally adopted her son from her first marriage, Roberts separated from Samuels in 1958, reconciled briefly, then finally divorced in 1961. He died in Los Angeles in 1973 and his ashes are interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Beth Olam, Columbarium, Hall of David, Corridor T7-1, Tier 22, Niche 1
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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