When Jewell Josephine Nichols was born on 5 July 1927, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Colonel Cleveland Nichols, was 35 and her mother, Unice Lee Stephenson, was 34. She lived in Civil District 1, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 7 June 1945, in Polk, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Old Salem Cemetery, McMinn, Tennessee, United States.
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13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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