Rose Wilder Lane

The author of the Little House series, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was a mother, a teacher, a farmer, a journalist, a loyal democrat, and an active political protester extraordinaire. However she is also the mysterious writer with her fans always asking what is true or fake in her books. ⅝ of her “Little House” books won Newbery awards. Laura even has a literacy award named after her called the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award”. She was the first awarded in 1954. l. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to Charles Philip and Caroline Quiner Ingalls on the 7th of February, in 1867. She was one of five children, she had an older sister named Mary Amelia, and two younger sisters, Carrie and Grace. (article 3) Carrie was born August 3, 1870, and Grace was born May 23 1877. They also had a little brother named Charles, who was birthed November 1, 1875, but died at nine months old. (article 6) As a child, Laura moved around quite a lot and really only settled in some places for a year and moved again. She was born on a farm frontier around Pepin, Wisconsin.…

Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was first published in 1904 and is a short story about a woman, named Georgiana, who finds herself transition from the ecstatic city of Boston, to the primitive Nebraska frontier. Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was inspired by Richard Wagner who was a German composer and conductor that lived from 1813 to 1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the…

Have you ever heard of the outlaw Laura Bullion, well now you will. Laura Bullion had different names, she used the names Della Rose, Freda Lincoln, Freda Bullion Lincoln, and Mrs. Maurice Lincoln and more. She was born in Knickerbocker Texas near Mertzon in Irion County, in October 1876. The actual date of her birth is not known. Laura Bullion died December 2, 1961. When she died, she was about 84 or 85. Laura Bullion was an outlaw that was known for robbery and forgery of banknotes signatures.…

Laura Ingalls Wilder, an author renowned for her stories of pioneer life, wrote about her childhood memories of traveling aboard wagons in what would come to be known as The Little House on the Prairie series. Millions of people have read Laura’s books and they still hold relevance to this day. However, perhaps one of the most overlooked factors of her books was the significance of the wagon used by the Ingalls’ family during their travels. For the Ingalls and many others, the wagon represented…

19,000 per day, accidents are bound to happen. Route 33 motorists may not be pleased with having to go through a small southeastern Ohio town and may drive more aggressively thus creating the potential for dangerous situations. Also, the amount of drivers on that stretch of road deteriorates the road at a much faster rate than if it just were Nelsonville residents driving. This causes the need for more repairs, and more frequent repairs. This in turn causes more traffic congestion, with the need…

saw HCSO deputies had the westbound lanes of Fletcher Avenue closed to traffic between 20th Street and 19th Street, with a smaller area cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape. Looking at the roadway inside the crime scene tape, I saw several pieces of clear…

This game has many factors that contribute to the goal of the game. The first factor is, the champion you choose to play as. This will determine how you play, what items you buy, and what lane you will be in. The second factor is what role you will fulfill. What role you fulfill will greatly affect your play style. You could be supporting your team, assassinating enemy champions, or many other things. The last factor is laning. This will tell how aggressively you play and even if you are…

cars will be able to decrease the rate of accidents with programs that will collect information given off by the smart car and smart road and use it to create safety alerts and warnings. A program that is being developed with this kind of purpose is called IntelliDrive. Intellidrive is going “to create interoperable connectivity among vehicles, infrastructure, and passengers’ wireless devices” (Row). Intellidrive will be able to create an interconnection between both the smart car and smart road…

crash scene and upon arrival at approximately 2323 hours, I was assigned to forensically map the scene. The intersection of Redwood Boulevard and the southbound lanes of Sheldon Road had been closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic with crime scene tape and marked patrol vehicles. I then met with Cpl. L. Rivera and Det. Parsons, who advised of the circumstances of the incident and what occurred. I forensically mapped the crash scene using a Sokkia Total Station. (Serial #: 147397) The…

As the name implies, a wheel-off trucking accident occurs when a large truck loses one or more wheels while on the road. When a wheel separates from a semi-truck, it can strike a pedestrian, crash into the ground-floor room of a building through a window or glass door, or strike other motor vehicle traffic. Some of the worst accidents occur when a wheel crosses into the lane of oncoming traffic and collides head-on with a vehicle. Wheel-off accidents are usually caused by improper tightening of…