When Wendell Bruce Marcy was born on 14 December 1923, in Ramah, El Paso, Colorado, United States, his father, Chester Losy Marcy, was 28 and his mother, Opal Vivan Ray, was 30. He married Dorothy Musin on 14 October 1944, in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States. He lived in Jefferson, Colorado, United States for about 1 years. He died on 10 February 2000, in Bennion, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
English: variant of Marsay, see Marcey . This form of the surname is very rare in Britain and Ireland.
French: habitational name from Marcy, the name of several places in various parts of France (e.g. in Aisne), all derived from the Gallo-Roman estate name Marciacum.
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