When Anna Maria Elvira Norman was born on 28 September 1906, in Laketon, Brookings, South Dakota, United States, her father, August Norman, was 35 and her mother, Marie Caroline Skoglund, was 22. She married Harold Brooks Brown on 24 June 1944, in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States. She lived in Stockholm, Grant, South Dakota, United States in 1910 and Watertown, Codington, South Dakota, United States in 1920. She died on 6 May 1989, in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
English, Irish (Dublin and Cork), and Scottish: ethnic or habitational name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves northmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onward, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original ancient Germanic name.
English: from the Middle English personal name Norman (recorded in the late Old English period as Northman), derived from northman ‘northerner’.
Americanized form of German Normann .
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