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Showing posts with label father. Show all posts
Showing posts with label father. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

Ike Sims

Has eleven sons in service. Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service.
1917 - ca. 1919
Source: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled1917 - 1918 (Record Group 165) | War Department

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Aung San

Bogyoke (General) Aung San, ( 13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, and founder of the modern Burmese army (Tatmadaw), and considered to be the Father of (modern-day) Burma. He was a founder of the Communist Party of Burma and was instrumental in bringing about Burma's independence from British colonial rule in Burma, but was assassinated six months before independence.
Aung San in Burma National Army uniform.
Source: wikipedia

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt, her father, Elliot, and her brothers, Elliot, Jr and Gracie Hall in New York, c. 1892


Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. c. 1898
Source: wpclipart | google