When Francis Elease Nation was born on 8 June 1918, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, her father, William Jasper Nations, was 51 and her mother, Sarah Francis Crawford, was 41. She lived in Shoal Creek, Hart, Georgia, United States in 1920 and District 1112, Hart, Georgia, United States in 1930. She died in November 1977, at the age of 59.
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The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
The 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed and became federal law on August 26, 1920. Georgia law prevented women from voting until 1922. The amendment wasn’t officially ratified until 1970.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
English (Somerset): cognate of Ash , with n- detached from the preceding Middle English definite article in the phrase atten asshen ‘at the ash-trees’, interpreted by folk etymology as if from the English vocabulary word nation.
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