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In 2012, Biles switched from public school to home schooling, allowing her to increase her training from about 20 to 32 hours a week. She earned her high-school diploma in mid-2015. She earned her high-school diploma in mid-2015.
Louis Silvie Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014) was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian evangelist. He took up running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000 m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics , finishing 8th while setting a new lap record in the process.
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams [1] was born on April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, [3] [16] the eldest of the three sons of teacher Carolyn and handyman Pharoah Williams. [17] [18] His ancestry goes back many generations in Virginia and North Carolina.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ ˈ b r æ n d aɪ s /; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (most commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904.
Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano. [11] Born into a family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, [12] Kusama began drawing pictures of pumpkins in elementary school and created artwork she saw from hallucinations, works of which would later define her career. [9]
Tishaura Oneda Jones (/ t ɪ ʃ ɑː r ʌ / tish-ARE-ə; born March 10, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri since April 2021. A member of the Missouri Democratic Party, Jones served from 2008 to 2013 in the Missouri House of Representatives; and as Treasurer of the City of St. Louis from 2013 to 2021.
On June 18, 2018, XXXTentacion, age 20, was murdered when he was shot near a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The attackers fled the scene in an SUV after stealing his Louis Vuitton bag containing $50,000 in cash. Four suspects were arrested and charged with first-degree murder among other charges. [30]