When Marion Maxwell Quackenbos was born on 18 October 1892, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Hugh Maxwell Quackenbos, was 33 and her mother, Estella M. Bartlett, was 23. She married Louis Marston Boisot on 13 May 1911, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 6 August 1947, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 54.
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The Chicago World's Fair was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to construct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the inventions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Originally a medieval French diminutive form of Marie , introduced to Britain in the Middle Ages. In some places it was taken as a pet form of Margaret or Margery . As a male name, it is an altered form of the Continental male name Marian, a derivative of Latin Marianus (from Marius ), but is now rarely, if ever, used. It was the birth name of the American film star John Wayne ( 1907–79 ).
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