When Herzogin Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde von Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born on 10 August 1869, in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, her father, Grossherzog Friedrich Franz Alexander von Mecklenburg-Schwerin II, was 46 and her mother, Prinzessin Marie Karoline Auguste von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, was 19. She married Großherzog Friedrich August von Oldenburg Holstein-Gottorp on 24 October 1896, in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 3 September 1955, in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States, at the age of 86.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
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.
Altered form of Welsh Vaughan .
Chinese: variant of Wong .
Cambodian: written វ៉ុន, unexplained.
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