When Nell Hamilton Ball was born on 9 August 1895, in Mason, Kentucky, United States, her father, George Mooter Ball, was 41 and her mother, Lucille Ida Lawson, was 32. She married Henry Milton Pyles in 1923, in Mason, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1976. She died on 19 October 1992, at the age of 97, and was buried in Mentor, Campbell, Kentucky, 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.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.
English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.
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