When Robert Charles Crabb was born on 19 September 1917, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, William Ray Crabb, was 30 and his mother, Cora Edith Thompson, was 25. He married LaVerta Parkinson on 3 March 1940, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States. He lived in Berenice, Butte, Idaho, United States in 1920 and St. Anthony Election Precinct 3, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 11 February 2004, in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ceres, Stanislaus, California, United States.
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To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English and Scottish: from Middle English crabbe, Old English crabba ‘crab’ (the crustacean), a nickname for someone with a peculiar gait, or, as in German and East Frisian, for an awkward or fractious person. Later, by association with the tart crab apple (Middle English crab(be)), it was used to denote a sour-tempered person.
Americanized form of German, Dutch, and Danish Krabbe .
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