When Riley E. Pratt was born on 19 November 1865, in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Enos Beach Pratt, was 38 and his mother, Emeline Bierce, was 41. He married Christine Nims on 12 February 1907, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States. He lived in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 28 July 1930, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Middle English prat(te), pret ‘cunning, wily, astute’ (a derivative of Old English præt, pret ‘trickery, deception’, which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.
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