Woodstock is a city in (and the county seat of) McHenry County, Illinois, United States.It is located 51 miles northwest of Chicago, making it one of the city's outer-most suburbs. Per the 2020 census, the population was 25,630. The city's historic downtown district and turn-of-the-century town square is anchored by the landmark Woodstock Opera House and the Old McHenry …

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from the enemy combatants still in the field …

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"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is a song written by folk singer Peter La Farge. Its words tell the story of Ira Hayes, one of the six marines who became famous for having raised the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

Bates College (/ b eɪ t s /) is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine.It is equidistant from the state capital, Augusta, to the north, and the cultural hub Portland to the south. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha) with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains 600 acres (240 …

Hyde Park is an affluent neighborhood on the east side of Cincinnati, Ohio.The population was 14,193 at the 2020 census.. It is located on the eastern side of Cincinnati, approximately six miles away from Downtown Cincinnati.Much of the neighborhood is situated between Interstate 71 and the Ohio River.At the center is Hyde Park Square, which is within a 2-block area of Erie …

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally.These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of STOL (Short TakeOff and Landing) or …

"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. The two never met. Bates wrote the words as a poem originally entitled "Pikes Peak".It was first published in the Fourth of July 1895 edition of the …

Daisy Bates (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) ... They began to mount on car tops and scream to the crowd "Let's get those niggers out of there."... The agitators first tried to bully the police into defecting. ... Tempers began to rise ... The leaders of each assault on the police lines were collared and put into police wagons and taken ...

Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. (June 7, 1910 – January 10, 2007) was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer.He established the Boston Museum of Science, served as its director from 1939–1980, and from 1985 until his death served as its Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment).Bradford married Barbara Polk in 1940, they honeymooned in …

Pliny's dates are pinned to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and a statement by his nephew that he died in his 56th year, which would put his birth in AD 23 or 24.. Pliny was the son of an equestrian Gaius Plinius Celer and his wife, Marcella. Neither the younger nor the elder Pliny mention the names. Their ultimate source is a fragmentary inscription (CIL V 1 3442) …

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Life. The names of Gunnor's parents are unknown, but Robert of Torigni wrote that her father was a forester from the Pays de Caux and according to Dudo of Saint-Quentin she was of noble Danish ancestry. Gunnor was probably born c. 950. Her family held sway in western Normandy and Gunnor herself was said to be very wealthy. Her marriage to Richard I was of great …

The 761st Tank Battalion was a separate tank battalion of the United States Army during World War II.The 761st was made up primarily of African-American soldiers, who by War Department policy were not permitted to serve alongside white troops; the U.S. military did not officially desegregate until after World War II. The 761st were known as the Black Panthers after their …