Dale Chihuly is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is well known in the field of blown glass,"moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War,a teacher,and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school,she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census,the population was 921,130,up from 795,225 in 2010,making it the second-most populous county in Washington,behind King County,and the 59th-most populous in the United States. The county seat and largest city is Tacoma. Formed out of Thurston County on December 22,1852,by the legislature of Oregon Territory,it was named for U.S. President Franklin Pierce. Pierce County is in the Seattle metropolitan area.
Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County,Washington,United States. A port city,it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound,32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle,36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue,31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital,Olympia,58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park,and 80 miles (130 km) east of Olympic National Park. The city's population was 219,346 at the time of the 2020 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third-most populous in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region,which has a population of about 1 million.
Point Lobos and the Point Lobos State Natural Reserve is a state park in California. Adjoining Point Lobos is "one of the richest marine habitats in California." The ocean habitat is protected by two marine protected areas,the Point Lobos State Marine Reserve and Point Lobos State Marine Conservation Area. The sea near Point Lobos is considered one of the best locations for scuba diving on the Monterey Peninsula and along the California coast.
Fort Nisqually was an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area,part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. It was located in what is now DuPont,Washington. Today it is a living history museum located in Tacoma,Washington,USA,within the boundaries of Point Defiance Park. The Fort Nisqually Granary,moved along with the Factor's House from the original site of the second fort to this park,is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Built in 1843,the granary is the oldest building in Washington state and one of the only surviving examples of a Hudson's Bay Company "post-and-plank" structure. The Factor's House and the granary are the only surviving Hudson's Bay Company buildings in the United States.
The Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) is an art museum in Tacoma,Washington,United States. It focuses primarily on the art and artists from the Pacific Northwest and broader western region of the U.S. Founded in 1935,the museum has strong roots in the community and anchors the university and museum district in downtown Tacoma.
Old Tacoma is a neighborhood of the north end of Tacoma,Washington,more commonly known as Old Town.
The Battle of Whitestone Hill was the culmination of the 1863 operations against the Sioux or Dakota people in Dakota Territory. Brigadier General Alfred Sully attacked a village September 3–5,1863. The Native Americans in the village included Yanktonai,Santee,and Teton (Lakota) Sioux. Sully killed,wounded,or captured 300 to 400 Sioux,including women and children,at a cost of about 60 casualties. Sully would continue the conflict with another campaign in 1864.
William Saunders Crowdy was an American soldier,preacher,entrepreneur,and pastor. and was also one of the earliest known Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States,he established the Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896 after he claimed to have had visions telling him "That blacks were descendants of the twelve lost tribes of Israel."
Mandarin is a neighborhood located in the southernmost portion of Jacksonville,in Duval County,Florida,United States. It is located on the eastern banks of the St. Johns River,across from Orange Park. It's a short drive south of Jacksonville's city center,and is bordered by Beauclerc to the north,Julington Creek to the south and St. John's River to the west.
The Iraqi diaspora refers to native Iraqis who have left for other countries as emigrants or refugees,and is now one of the largest in modern times,being described by the UN as a "humanitarian crisis" caused by the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq and by the ensuing war.
Colonel George Davenport,born George William King,was a 19th-century English-American sailor,frontiersman,fur trader,merchant,postmaster,US Army soldier,Indian agent,and city planner. A prominent and well-known settler in the Iowa Territory,he was one of the earliest settlers in Rock Island. He spent much of his life involved in the early settlement of the Mississippi Valley and the "Quad Cities". The present-day city of Davenport,Iowa is named after him.
Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park,is a 525-acre (2.12 km2) national monument,historical museum and park located in southern Jessamine County,Kentucky,United States,20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington,Kentucky. The American Civil War era camp was established in 1863 as a depot for the Union Army during the Civil War. It became a recruiting ground for new soldiers from Eastern Tennessee and enslaved people,many of whom had fled their living conditions to be soldiers.
James Kenneth "J.K." Ralston was an American painter of the Old American West whose primary topics were the American West and images of cowboys and American Indians. He also did commercial artwork.
Roche Harbor is a sheltered harbor on the northwest side of San Juan Island in San Juan County,Washington,United States,and the site of a resort of the same name. Roche Harbor faces Haro Strait and the Canada–United States border. The harbor itself provides one of the better protected anchorages in the islands. The harbor is surrounded on the east side by San Juan Island,on the north side by Pearl Island,and on the west and south sides by Henry Island. Most of the harbor is 35 to 45 feet deep. Roche Harbor has a small airport used primarily by local residents.
"General" Morton Matthew McCarver was an American politician and pioneer in the West. A native of Kentucky,he helped found cities in Iowa,Oregon,and Washington while also involved in the early government of California. He served in the Provisional Legislature of Oregon,including as the first speaker of that body,and also fought in the Rogue River Wars.
United States Navy submarines,surface ships,and aircraft launch torpedoes,missiles,and autonomous undersea vehicles as part of training exercises. Typically,these training munitions have no warhead and are recovered from the sea and reused. Similarly,new naval weapons under development are launched at sea in performance trials. These experimental units also need to be recovered,in their case to obtain evaluation data. At various points in history,newly manufactured torpedoes were fired as a quality control measure and these,too,had to be recovered before issuing them to the fleet. The U.S. Navy has used a variety of boats to accomplish the retrieval of these test and training munitions. As their missions evolved over the last century they have been variously known as torpedo retrievers,torpedo weapon retrievers,torpedo recovery boats,range support craft,and multi-purpose craft.
Edward Creston Gleed was an U.S. Army Air Force officer with the famed Buffalo Soldiers/9th Cavalry Regiment,332nd Fighter Group’s operations officer,and combat fighter pilot with the 99th Fighter Squadron,best known as the Tuskegee Airmen. He was one of the more prominent members of Tuskegee Airmen's ninth-ever aviation cadet program,as well as one of 1,007 documented Tuskegee Airmen Pilots. His classmates included Robert B. Tresville,West Point's seventh African American graduate and the 100th Fighter Squadron's Commanding Officer.
