When Virginia Ruth Brock was born on 17 April 1924, in Minnesota, United States, her father, Frank Cyrus Brock, was 37 and her mother, Anna Leota Risk, was 36. She lived in Hazel Run, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States for about 5 years and Hanley Falls, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States in 1940. She died on 30 May 2013, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
English, Scottish, and North German: variant of Brook .
English and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, from Middle English brok(ke) ‘badger’ (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
Dutch and Flemish: from a personal name, a short form of Brockert .
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