When Della Still was born on 11 September 1892, in Batesville, Panola, Mississippi, United States, her father, Jesse Dee Still Sr, was 58 and her mother, Mary Jane Appleton, was 30. She married Willie Lawley on 1 January 1918. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Panola, Mississippi, United States in 1935 and Beat 2, Panola, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 25 July 1948, at the age of 55, and was buried in Pleasant Grove, Panola, Mississippi, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English and German: nickname for a calm man, from Middle English, Middle High German stille ‘calm, silent, still’. The German name may also have denoted a (deaf) mute, from the same word in the sense ‘silent’.
English: variant of Stile .
English: variant of Stell .
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