When Raymond G Dancause was born on 22 April 1917, in Jaffrey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Joseph George Ferdinand Dancausse, was 34 and his mother, Mea Girouard, was 31. He married Elizabeth E St John on 30 November 1939, in Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. He lived in Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States in 1920. He died on 2 May 1992, in Jaffrey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Saint Patrick Cemetery, Jaffrey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.
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To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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 Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
From an Old French name, Raimund, of Germanic origin, from ragin ‘advice, decision’ + mund ‘protector’. This was adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. Subsequently it dropped out of use, but was revived in the middle of the 19th century, together with several other given names of Old English and Norman origin.
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