When Grace Isabel Crooker was born on 4 February 1917, in Brooklyn Township, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, her father, Charles Nahum Crooker, was 22 and her mother, Mabel L. Meinke, was 19. She married Lloyd Raynold Johnson on 4 April 1936, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Brooklyn Center, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 15 years and Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1940. She died on 22 January 1995, in Crosslake, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, 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.
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English: from an agent derivative of Middle English crok ‘bend’ (Old Norse krókr ‘hook, bend’), probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived at a bend; compare Crook .
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