When Omar Shakespear Pound was born on 10 September 1926, in Paris, France, his father, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, was 40 and his mother, Dorothy Shakespear, was 39. He died on 2 March 2010, in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 83.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
"On June 7, 1932, the ""Bonus Army"", a group of 43,000 people including veterans, their families, and other groups marched on Washington D.C. Their demand was that the veterans got paid their share for their service during WWI. As they marched, they were attacked on the command of General MacArthur."
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
English: topographic or occupational name from Middle English pound(e) ‘enclosure for distrained or stray livestock’, signifying one who lived at or worked at a pound.
English: nickname from Middle English pound(e), powund ‘measure of weight; monetary unit’, perhaps used for a maker of weights.
Probably an Americanized form (translation into English) of German Pfund or the North German cognate Pund .
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