When Catherine Rainbolt was born on 14 May 1935, in Metropolis, Massac, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles Henry Rainbolt, was 25 and her mother, Flora Irene Harrington, was 24. She died on 7 January 2012, in Albion, Edwards, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Casper Church Cemetery, Anna, Union, Illinois, United States.
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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 Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
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.
Americanized form of German Reinbold .
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