When Miss Brian was born on 18 December 1916, in Lawrence, Illinois, United States, her father, Levi Dewitt Brian, was 25 and her mother, Letha Alice Fishel, was 23. She died on 21 October 1917, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
Irish and English: variant of Bryant .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Briain, see O'Brien .
French: unflattering nickname from Old Occitan brian ‘mite, maggot’, by extension brimborion, possibly denoting a very small man.
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