When James Wilbur Parks was born on 28 February 1914, in Rubicon Township, Greene, Illinois, United States, his father, Elmer Westley Parks, was 43 and his mother, Hattie Belle Allen, was 39. He lived in Roscoe, Postmasburg, Cape Province, South Africa in 1975. He died on 20 April 2003, in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Rose Hill West Cemetery, Rubicon Township, Greene, Illinois, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
South Africa supports Allies in World War II.
English:
variant of Park 1 with genitival, plural, or post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Perk , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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