When Stella Carolyn Thoms was born on 22 December 1895, in Linn, Washington, Kansas, United States, her father, William Thoms, was 33 and her mother, Sophie Louise Elisabeth Kopmann, was 27. She lived in Kimeo, Washington, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Greenleaf Township, Washington, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 12 January 1986, in Greenleaf, Washington, Kansas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Greenleaf Cemetery, Greenleaf, Washington, Kansas, United States.
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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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
North German, Scottish, and English: patronymic from a short form of Thomas .
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