When Leon Anthony Boevingloh was born on 13 June 1916, in Germantown, Clinton, Illinois, United States, his father, Martin Henry Boevingloh, was 37 and his mother, Caroline Mary Schurmann, was 35. He died on 15 January 1996, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 79.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Derivative of Leo , from the oblique case. This form is common as a Jewish name, but recently has also acquired wider currency. The lion is an important symbol among Jews because of Jacob's dying pronouncement that ‘Judah is a lion's whelp’ (Genesis 49:9).
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