Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis passed away at his Oakland home this past Saturday. He was 82. Al Davis has been around the Oakland Raiders for the better part of 45 years. He started out as a coach for them in 1963 turning a struggling Raiders team
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I used ancestry. com to make a family tree.family tree made
Kaufmann family, Schomer family, Griener Family, and Petsche family all came from Germany.
Wilke, Engelhardt, Schmidt, Lembke, Bnte, Kress, Mueller, Ortman all came from Germany.
Wolverton and
we finished the chapter 7.3
missed class for homecoming decoraing.
Iowa State Professor wins Nobel Prize
In 1982 Danny Shechtman discovered quasicrystals. This discovery started a scientific revolution, rewrote chemistry textbooks, and ended up winning him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The Royal Swedish Academy o
I am doing my family history for my assigned blog # 4. My grandpa Christensen's side came over from Denmark and my grandpa Sciranko's side came over from Czechoslovakia.
Here is the family tree of how I was born on my grandma Sciranko's side:
John Gear
Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in November 25, 1835, he died August 11, 1919 at aged 83 and he came to the United States as a child with his parents. Andrew was a Scottish American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur he le
Olsen Twins $39,000 backpack sells out.
Backpacks must be back in style!
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are having troubles meeting demand for a 39,000 alligator backpack from their fashion line, The Row.
This costly item was the first thing that was s
Amy's Family Tree Amy's Family Tree 2 (click on edit link, copy URL on to another tab)
With the help of information from my aunt and grandma, I discovered that both sides of my ancestors originated in Germany. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather Engel
Absent because of decorating for homecoming
My Mom's side of the family is from Denmark. Her Grandpa, Villum Villumsen came to America in 1924 from Copenhagen, Denmark. He was 19 years old when he came to America. When he came, he was processed on Ellis Island. When he came to Shelby, Iowa, he
no class today
After listening to Chad W. Timm, I thought he was a very interesting and educational speaker. He kept you interested and made you want to listen. A few of the highlights he mentioned were:
-humanity prevailing
Why Iowa?
-Midwestern location
-would make
Today i went to the library to hear Chad W. Timm speak about the Prisoners of war in Iowa in the year 1944. He told us about the camps in Clarinda and in Algona, but touched more on the camp in algona. Each camp contained 500 American guards and the
My dad's mom's side of the family was mainly from Ireland, but some were from Belgium. Some of the last names from that side of the family are Lanagan and Shanahan, and that just screams Irish. My mamaw (my dad's mom) is mostly Irish. If she were any
Mr. Bruns was gone today. We watched America the Story of Us.
