When Walter Emmett Stark was born on 29 October 1918, in Kimama, Lincoln, Idaho, United States, his father, Carl Lewis Stark, was 29 and his mother, Maria Mai, was 19. He married Wyota Ruby Vincent on 14 September 1945, in Chariton, Lucas, Iowa, United States. He lived in Paul, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Rupert Election Precinct 2, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 24 July 2004, in Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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 Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: nickname from Middle English stark ‘strong, sturdy; harsh, severe’ (Old English stearc).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a strong, bold person, from Middle High German stark(e), German stark ‘strong, brave’.
Czech and Slovak (Štark): of German origin (see 2 above).
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