When Jack Herbert Braithwaite was born on 17 April 1922, in Arco, Butte, Idaho, United States, his father, Francis Herbert Braithwaite, was 25 and his mother, Emeline Jenson, was 24. He married Mildred Reva Thompson on 2 September 1955, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 2000. He died on 24 October 2012, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Posey War was to be considered the final Indian War in American history. It was a minor conflict, but it involved a mass exodus of Ute and Paiute from their land around current day Bluff, Utah. The natives were led by a chief named Posey, hence the name, who took his people into the mountains to try and escape his pursuers. The war ended after a skirmish at Comb Ridge. Posey was badly wounded, and his band was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Blanding. When Posey's death was confirmed by the authorities, the prisoners were released and given land allotments to farm and raise livestock.
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
In 1948, KING-TV was the first TV station not just in Washington, but the whole Pacific Northwest. It is an NBC tv station licensed to Seattle and Tacoma.
English (northern): habitational name from any of the places in Cumbria and Yorkshire named Braithwaite, from Old Norse breithr ‘broad’ + thveit ‘clearing’.
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