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  2. Roy Orbison - Wikipedia

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    Roy Orbison. Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's music is mostly in the rock genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan ...

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    Green City. 3. Green City Railroad Depot. Green City Railroad Depot. More images. January 15, 1999. ( #98001610) 202 Lincoln St. 40°16′01″N 92°57′11″W.

  7. Myrlie Evers-Williams - Wikipedia

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    Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist.

  8. Percy Sutton - Wikipedia

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    Sutton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the youngest of fifteen children born to Samuel Johnson ("S.J.") Sutton and his wife, Lillian.. His father, an early civil-rights activist, was one of the first black civil servants a teacher and school administrator in Bexar County, Texas, and used the initials "S.J." for fear his first name, Samuel, would be shortened to Sambo.

  9. The Sheik (wrestler) - Wikipedia

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    1944–1946. Battles/wars. World War II. Edward George Farhat (June 7, 1926 – January 18, 2003) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Sheik (often called The Original Sheik to distinguish him from The Iron Sheik, who debuted in 1972). In wrestling, Farhat is credited as one of the originators of the hardcore ...