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Nolan M

Boston Red Sox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Red Sox
  • Red Sox are a professional baseball team
  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Red Sox" redirects here. For the New Zealand football (soccer) club, see Red Sox Manawatu For current information on this topic, see 2010 Boston Red Sox season. Boston Red Sox Established 1901 Team logo Cap Insignia Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired numbers 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 27, 42 Colors Red, midnight navy, white                Name Boston Red Sox (1908–present) Boston Americans (1901–1907)[1] Other nicknames The Sox, The BoSox, The Olde Towne Team Ballpark Fenway Park (1912–present) Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds (1901–1911) Major league titles World Series titles (7) 2007 • 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 • 1912 • 1903 AL Pennants (12) 2007 • 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967 • 1946 • 1918 • 1916 • http://en.wikipedia
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  • based in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around 1908, following previous Boston teams that had been known as the "Red Stockings".
  • in the first World Series in 1903
  • championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the "Curse of the Bambino" after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in 2004.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • (See the book entry for more information.)
  • In Laura's early
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  • Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1867, near the village of Pepin, in the "Big Woods" of Wisconsin,
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Laura Ingalls Wilder - 0 views

  • Her father called himself a pioneer man and dreamed of going West to explore and settled on unknown territory.
  • Laura was four when she first started school
  • The name of the school was the Barry Corner School in Pepin, Wisconsin
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  • When Laura was 13 her family settled in De Smet and she went to school on a regular basis.
  • 16 but she never graduated
  • Laura married Almanzo Wilder on August 25, 1885. They moved several times but then settled on a small farm in Mansfield Missouri.
  • Rose kept asking her mother for stories of her pioneer days. This is how Laura got started writing.
  • book entitled Little House In The Big Woods.
  • Laura was 65 when she published
  • Little House series
  • A weekly television series, Little House on the Prairie, began in 1974 and ran for many seasons.
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder died February 10, 1957 in Mansfield of stroke. Laura was important because with her books she brought life on the frontier into the homes of millions of children
  • of stroke. Laura was important because with her books she brought life on the frontier into the homes of millions of
  • People who did not read the books but who saw the television series were able to see what frontier life was like
  • For instance, people had to wash cloths in the lakes, they had to gather wood for the fireplace, and they had to warm the water over the fireplace before they put it in the tub to get washed.
  • If Laura didn't live we wouldn't know how people lived on the frontier. Learning about Laura Ingalls Wilder made me understand how much easier living and learning is today
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  • The tiny, red-haired, six-year-old jigged and danced to their clapping hands, while they showered her with nuggets and coins which her mother hastily collected in her apron
  • Lotta was exposed early to the life of the theater and it's inhabitants in San Francisco when her father left New York in 1851, looking for gold.
  • Mary Ann involved them in a circle of actors which included the Chapmans
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  • Just two doors down from their boarding house, the infamous actress and Countess of Landsfeldt, Lola Montez herself had set up housekeeping. Mary Ann became acquainted with her and soon little Lotta, who adored Lola, became her protégé and was allowed to play in her costumes and dance to her German music box.
  • moved again to Rabbit Creek (La Porte) forty miles to the north and once again set up a boarding house
  • Lola Montez wanted to take Lotta on a tour of Australia with her, but of course Mary Ann wouldn't see it.
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  • traveling to all of the mining camps performing ballads and dancing for the miners
  • moved back to San Francisco where Lotta toured the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, added the banjo to her repertoire and became frequently in demand in the city's variety halls and amusement parks
  • 1859 she had become "Miss Lotta, the San Francisco Favorite"
  • Considering all of the valuables they carried around, it is amazing they were never robbed
  • 1864, they left for the East where Lotta toured and performed in New York, Chicago, Boston and the Midwest
  • greatest success in Little Nell and the Marchioness which was written for her by John Brougham from Dicken's Old Curiosity Shop
  • 1869, she opened in Philadelphia in Heart's Ease
  • 20 years, Lotta was highly popular on the American stage
  • 1870, she then toured with her own company rather than using local stock companies, which was then customary
  • Mary Ann continued to manage Lotta's affairs, booking plays, locations and organizing troupes of actors
  • 1884). When Mary Ann's steamer trunk became to heavy on their tours, she would invest Lotta's earnings in local real estate, bonds and other endeavors
  • 1875, Lotta commissioned the famous "Lotta's Fountain" at Market and Kearney Streets in San Francisco
  • Mary Ann and her brothers where she studied French, visited museums and took up the hobby of painting which she pursued until her death
  • Although she has been linked with many gentleman, Lotta never married
  • If Lotta were to marry, it would surely have put a damper on her career of playing children and young parts, which she played until the end of her career.
  • Lotta retired from the theater in 1892 at the age of 45
  • Lotta had talent and she soon sought more singing and dancing lessons for her.
  • made her first professional appearance at a tavern owned by Matt Taylor.
  • She and her mother retreated to a summer cottage on Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey which she named "Attol Tryst" (Lotta spelled backwards) where she drove horses, threw parties and pursued her painting
  • her trademark black cigars prevented her from becoming a member of the prominent ladies social group, Sorosis, much to the disappointment of her mother
  • When Mary Ann died in 1905, Lotta became more reclusive.
  • final public appearance in 1915 for "Lotta Crabtree Day" in San Francisco at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, where the city turned out to remember their beloved Lotta
  • purchased the Brewster Hotel in Boston, where she lived until her death in 1924 at the age of 77.
  • buried next to her mother in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City
  • bulk of her estate, estimated at $4,000,000 to veterans, aging actors and animals.
  • long court battle ensued over rightful heirs but her will was finally settled and a large trust remains for humane and educational purposes of the young.
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    They moved in with friends and soon Mary Ann involved them in a circle of actors which included the Chapmans, child actress Sue Robinson and many other popular actors of the 19th century. It was then that Lotta was first enrolled in dancing classes
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