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  2. The Dead All Have the Same Skin - Wikipedia

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    2007. Pages. 190. The Dead All Have the Same Skin ( French: Les morts ont tous la même peau) is a 1947 crime novel by the French writer Boris Vian. It tells the story of a mixed Black-White American, who manages to have a career in "white society" without anyone knowing of his origin; when his black half-brother turns up and tries to blackmail ...

  3. State funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...

  4. Barry Sullivan (American actor) - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) [1] was an American actor of film, television, theatre, and radio. In a career that spanned over 40 years, Sullivan appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s, primarily as a leading actor after establishing himself in the industry, and later as a character actor .

  5. American Gold Star Mothers - Wikipedia

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    A Service flag with one gold star. American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. (AGSM), is a private [1] nonprofit organization [2] of American mothers who lost sons or daughters in service of the United States Armed Forces. It was originally formed in 1928 for mothers of those lost in World War I, and it holds a congressional charter under Title 36 § 211 ...

  6. Vernon Baker - Wikipedia

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    Vernon Joseph Baker (December 17, 1919 – July 13, 2010) was a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on April 5–6, 1945, near ...

  7. Flanders Callaway House - Wikipedia

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    Flanders Callaway House was a historic home formerly located near Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri. It was built about 1812, and was a two-story, five-bay, walnut hewn-log frontier house. The house was typical of early Federal style log constructions found in Kentucky and Tennessee. Its builder Flanders Callaway was a son-in-law of famed ...

  8. James F. Jones (minister) - Wikipedia

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    James Francis Marion Jones (November 24, 1907 – August 12, 1971), also known as the Rt. Rev. Dr. James F. Jones, D.D and as Prophet Jones, was an American black religious leader, televangelist, faith healer and pastor who led the religious movement that developed into the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, Inc. from 1938 until his death in 1971.

  9. Sullivan City, Texas - Wikipedia

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    48-70868 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1348049 [4] Website. www .sullivancity .org. Sullivan City is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,908 at the 2020 United States Census. [2] It is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.