When Nona May Shipley was born on 28 September 1917, in Formosa, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States, her father, Leonard Brooks Shipley, was 38 and her mother, Eva Mae Merryman, was 35. She married Chester Hubbard on 30 June 1933, in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States. She lived in Culpepper, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1930 and Culpepper Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 16 August 2004, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lancaster, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
In 1922, Harvey C. Couch Sr. started WOK the first radio station in Arkansas. After a trip to Pittsburgh and the KDKA radio he came up with the idea for Workers of Killowatts (WOK). WOK had no commercials which was nice for the listeners.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English (Staffordshire): habitational name from any of various places called Shipley, in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, Durham, Northumberland, Sussex, and elsewhere, all named with Old English scēap ‘sheep’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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