When Debra Eileen Wiker was born on 10 August 1954, in Corning, Steuben, New York, United States, her father, Richard Minney Wiker, was 33 and her mother, Mary E. Kreider, was 32. She died on 31 August 1976, in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 22.
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The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
The Vietnam War was another civil war brought about from the Cold War. It was fought between the North Vietnamese, who were supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies, and the South Vietnamese, who were supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war caused two more civil wars in Laos and Cambodia and resulted in all three countries becoming communist states.
With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of ten or more farmsteads so named in eastern Norway, from the plural of vik ‘bay, inlet’ (see Vik ).
Swedish: ornamental name from vik ‘bay’ + the suffix -er (from German).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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