When Charles Arthur Burrus was born on 1 August 1917, in Clay, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Guy Burrus, was 21 and his mother, Mary Lee Page, was 15. He died on 22 March 1972, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 54.
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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.
In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for.
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
English (Kent): variant of Burrows .
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