When Olga Andrus was born on 2 June 1917, her father, John Andrus, was 25 and her mother, Mary Andrias, was 18. She married Alfred A Sonju in 1947. She lived in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States in 1940 and Fergus Falls, Otter Tail, Minnesota, United States in 1957. She died on 4 December 2005, in North Dakota, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Walum, Griggs, North Dakota, 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.
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
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English: variant of Andrews .
History: William Andrus came to Boston in 1635 and moved to New Haven in 1639, where he died in 1676.
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