Violet jessop biography of abraham
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When Alonzo dem Jessop was born on 22 September , in Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Edwardus JESSOP, was 28 and his mother, Mary Carter, was He married Helen Stitt on 24 June , in San Diego, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Coronado, San Diego, California, United States for about 20 years and National Township, San Diego, California, United States in He died on 10 August , in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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1. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died hours apart on the same day: July 4, , the 50th anniversary of American independence.
When the Continental Congress convened in in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams became fast friends. The tall, lanky Virginian and stocky Massachusetts native worked together to draft the Declaration of Independence and spent time together as diplomats for the new United States in Europe. Their relationship frayed, however, when Jefferson succeeded Adams as president in On opposite sides of the Republican and Federalist divide, the two men remained estranged until , when Adams sent Jefferson a New Year’s greeting. Their reconciliation spawned a remarkable correspondence that lasted for nearly 15 years. On July 4, , as the country celebrated 50 years since declaring its independence from Great Britain, the year-old Jefferson passed away at his Virginia estate, Monticello. The year-old Adams, on his own deathbed in Quincy, Massachusetts, and unaware
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In , Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin introduced a program of agricultural collectivization in Ukraine, the “Bread Basket” of the Soviet Union, forcing family farmers off their land and into state-owned collective farms.
Ukrainian “kulaks”, peasant farmers successful enough to hire labor or own farm machinery, refused to join the collectives, regarding such as a return to the serfdom of earlier centuries. Stalin claimed that these factory collectives would not only feed industrial workers in the cities, but would also provide a surplus to be sold abroad, raising money to further his industrialization plans.
Armed dekulakization brigades confiscated land, livestock and other property by force, evicting entire families. Nearly half a million individuals were dragged from their homes in ’31 alone, packed into freight trains and shipped off to remote areas like Siberia and often left without food or shelter. Many of them, especially children, died in transit or soon after arri