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Rear admiral (abbreviated as RADM), also sometimes referred to informally as "rear admiral (upper half)", is a two-star flag officer, with the pay grade of O-8 in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps and the United States Maritime Service. ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Official Website On March 18, 1858, the outgoing territorial legislature created Otter Tail County from areas partitioned from Cass and Pembina, another of the original counties created in 1849. The county was named for Otter Tail Lake and the Otter Tail River. The county was not organized in 1858, nor...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wadena County, Minnesota. Official Website The newly organized Minnesota Legislature created the county on June 11, 1858. A settlement began at the future city of Wadena in 1871, and by 1873 a post office was in operation there. The settlement was designated the county seat when the state legislature organized the county on February...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was formed in 1856, with the name being changed twice from Superior County, to Saint Louis County, to the current name of Lake. At the time of European contact, the principal Native American groups in the region were the Dakota (Sioux) and Ojibwe (also called Anishinabe or Chippewa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Becker County, Minnesota. Official Website Becker County became a county on March 18, 1858. It was named for George Loomis Becker, one of three men elected to Congress when Minnesota became a state. Since Minnesota could only send two, Becker elected to stay behind, and he was promised to have a county named after him. A portion of ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Illinois.= Official Website =The county, which was primarily unsettled prairie and was still home to its native Potawatomi Indians, was created by the Illinois State Legislature in 1839. Adjacent Counties * Kenosha County, Wisc. * McHenry County * Cook County Cities *Highland Park*Highwood*Lake Forest*North Chicago*Park ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The Osage hunted on land that includes present-day Lincoln County until they ceded the area in an 1825 treaty to the federal government. The government then assigned the land to the Creek and the Seminoles after they were removed from the southeastern United States. Following Quapaw removal in 1834, several ...
Suomesta on lähdetty siirtolaisiksi eri puolille maailmaa, Amerikkaan, Ruotsiin, Norjaan, Venäjälle ja Neuvostoliittoon sekä muihin kaukaisiin maihin. Voit lisätä projektiin Haapajärveltä lähteneet siirtolaiset ja myös ne, jotka ovat myöhemmin jostain syystä palanneet takaisin. Haapajärven projektit * Paikkakunta Haapajärvi, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Suomi Paikkakunta Haapajärvi, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, ...
Francis Surname Meaning English: from the Old French personal name Franceis modern French François from Latin Franciscus originally ‘Frank’ though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226) whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father wa...
This project brings together the profiles of people who moved from Asikkala, Häme to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The aim of the project is to bring together people who have left Asikkala as immigrants and to unite families who left America and stayed in Finland. Persons who have returned to Finland can also be connected to the project. Welcome to join the project to compl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ellis County, Kansas. Official Website Ellis County was founded on February 26, 1867. It is named for George Ellis, first lieutenant of the Twelfth Kansas Infantry. Ellis County is the official German Capital of Kansas. German immigrants settled in Hays, Ellis, Victoria, and nearby villages in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1942, the Walke...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Russell County, Kansas. Official Website Russell County was established in 1867 and was named for Captain Avra P. Russell, Second Kansas Regiment, killed at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, in December, 1862. Adjacent Counties Osborne County Lincoln County Ellsworth County Barton County Ellis County Rush County Cities Bu...
The Minims, officially known as the Order of Minims (Latin: Ordo Minimorum; abbreviated OM), and known in German-speaking countries as the Paulaner Order (German: Paulanerorden), are a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continues to exist today. Like the other mendicant orders,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Allen County, Kansas. Official Website Allen County is a county located in southeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas . It was named in honor of William Allen , a United States senator from Ohio. Adjacent Counties Anderson County Bourbon County Linn County Neosho County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Iowa. Official Website The county was established in 1846 and was named for United States President James K. Polk, who served from 1845 to 1849. Adjacent Counties Boone County Dallas County Madison County Warren County Story County Jasper County Marion County Cities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Osborne County, Kansas. The county was established in 1867 and was named in honor of Captain Vincent B. Osborne, a Civil War soldier who lost a leg in a battle on January 17, 1865, at Joy's Ford on the Arkansas River. Adjacent Counties Jewell County Smith County Mitchell County Lincoln County Russell County Ellis County...
Progenitors=See the parent Sicily Project for an explanation and criteria of the progenitors list Albano* Albano, Francesca Interlicchia* Interlicchia, Giuseppe Roccazzella* Roccazzella, Sebbastiano Vivinetto* Vivinetto,Giuseppe
Finland and Karelia - Special projects and profession projects= Back to the main page of Finland and Karelia project Currently, the information on this page is in Finnish only. English text to be added. Tälle projektisivulle kootaan aihejärjestyksessä muut projektit kuin paikkaprojektit. Paikkaprojekteja ovat alueprojektit, paikkakuntaprojektit, kylä- ja taloprojektit sekä muut paikkakuntien ta...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gove County, Kansas. Official Website In 1868, Gove County was established and named for Granville Llewellyn Gove, member of the 11th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and son of Moses Gove, a former mayor of Manhattan, Kansas. Adjacent Counties Graham County Lane County Logan County Ness County Scott County Sheridan ...
The Bekenntniss der Professoren an den deutschen Hochschulen und Universitäten zu Adolf Hitler und dem nationalsozialistischen Staat (confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state) was persented the 11. November 1933 'to celebrate the "National Socialist revolution" at a ceremony in the Albert Hall in Leipzig . But were not all sig...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Aitkin County, Minnesota . Official Website Aitkin County was established in 1857 as Aiken County. The current spelling was adopted in 1872. It was named for William Alexander Aitken , a fur trader for the American Fur Company, under John Jacob Astor . Aiken County originally consisted of the 17 townships closest to Mille Lacs Lake....
From the Wikipedia article on the University of Wyoming . The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,220 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW (often pronounced "U-Dub") to people close to the university. The university was founded in March 1886, four...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Spokane, Washington. Official Website Spokane is located in Spokane County, sits on the Spokane River and is the county seat. Known as the birthplace of Father's Day, Spokane's official nickname is the "Lilac City". A pink, double flower cultivar of the common lilac, known as Syringa vulgaris 'Spokane', is named for the...
The first humans to arrive in what is now Spokane County arrived between 12,000 and 8,000 years ago and were hunter-gatherer societies who lived off the plentiful game in the area. Initially, the settlers hunted predominantly bison and antelope, but after the game migrated out of the region, the native people became dependent on gathering various roots, berries, and nuts, and harvesting fish. T...