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The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage -based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in supporting the American Revolutionary War. [ 1]
The Darwin Awards are a rhetorical tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions. The project became more formalized with the ...
Oakmont senior Maxwell Stone of Westminster won the Good Citizen award from the Leominster Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The National Society Children of the American Revolution ( NSCAR) is a youth organization that was founded on April 5, 1895, by Harriett Lothrop. The idea was proposed on February 22, 1895, at the Fourth Continental Congress of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). [ 1] The organization was promptly chartered by the ...
A teacher and several students received awards for their dedication to American history and education during an annual reception last week.
The Joseph McDowell Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution presented two American History Essay awards on Jan. 14 at the Champion Hills Country Club.
Hannah White Arnett. Hannah White Arnett (January 15, 1733 – January 10, 1823) was an American woman who is known for preventing a group of men in Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey (now Elizabeth) from proclaiming their loyalty to Great Britain in exchange for "protection of life and property." [1] Discouraged, the men decided to accept ...
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.