Brief Life History of Linda Lou
When Linda Lou Cook was born in 1942, her father, Roy Lambert Cook, was 25 and her mother, Eva Elinora Miller, was 22. She died on 19 October 1942, in Hickory Hill Township, Wayne, Illinois, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Illinois, United States.
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- Lenda Lou Cook, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Linda Lou Cook, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (2)
1942
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.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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