What is the history of Fannie May?
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Fannie Mae is either a federal mortgage company or a candy company.  You can find out about either on the internet.
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check the book out on\n\nwww.sparknotes.com\n\nthey will give you key highlights on mamny books and stories!
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look at history us.gov
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1932 maybe, i believe it was during the great depression. I think FDR created it. Maybe?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is on the front of the dime.\n\nThe previous dime -- sometimes called the Mercury Dime -- had a woman's face that was supposed to represent Liberty.  The model for that dime was the wife of the poet Wallace Stephens.  Stephens was a known FDR hater.  One can only imagine how he felt when FDR replaced his wife on the dime.
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The only information I could find on her was this site\nhttp://www.leb.org/v3/display/36761/usa/marion-scherer-amika/
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Maggie Lena Walker founded her bank, The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the first African-American woman bank president.\n\nWalker, Maggie Lena\nMaggie Lena Walker (July 15, 1867-December 15, 1934) was the first woman in the USA to become a local bank president. Throughout her life, Walker worked for civil rights and other humanitarian causes. \nMaggie Mitchell was born in Richmond, Virginia, to former slaves. In 1886, Maggie married Armstead Walker, Jr. She worked first as a teacher, and then as an agent for the Woman's Union Insurance Company, quickly rising to become the executive secretary/treasurer of the company. She founded the newspaper, the St. Luke Herald, in 1902. In 1903, she started the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and was its president. In 1929, at the start of the economic depression, her bank bought all the local black-owned banks in town and renamed itself the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company.
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http://www.corrietenboom.com/history.htm\n\nCornelia (Corrie) ten Boom (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II. Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, she was the youngest of three sisters and one brother. Her father was a watchmaker, and she was raised in the Dutch Reformed Church. She never married.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Biography \n2 See also \n3 References \n4 Foonotes \n5 External links \n \n\n\n[edit]\nBiography\nIn 1892 Corrie's family moved to Beje house in Haarlem, and in 1918 the family took in the first of many children. Corrie began training as a watchmaker in 1920 and in 1922 became the first female watchmaker licensed in the Netherlands. In 1923 she helped organize the first girls' club, and in the 1930s these clubs grew to become the very large Triangle Club.\n\nCorrie was able to rescue many Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazi SS during the Holocaust. In 1940 the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and banned her club organization. By 1942 her family had become very active in the Dutch underground, hiding refugees.\n\nThe family's work in saving Jews was motivated by their staunch Christian beliefs. They helped Jews without forcing conversion, and they even provided Kosher food and honored the Sabbath.\n\nThe Nazis arrested the entire ten Boom family in 1944; they were sent first to Dutch prisons, and finally to the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany in September 1944, where Corrie's sister Betsie died. Corrie was released in December 19441. In the movie The Hiding Place, Corrie narrates the section on her release from camp by saying that she later learned her release was a clerical error. It so happened that the women prisoners her age in the camp were killed the day after her release. She returned to the Netherlands to begin rehabilitation centres. She went to Germany in 1946, beginning many years of itinerant preaching in over sixty countries, a time during which she wrote many books.\n\nCorrie told the story of her family and their work during World War II in her most famous book, The Hiding Place (1971), which was made into a film of the same name by World Wide Pictures in 1975. The book and film give context to the story of Anne Frank, who was also in hiding in the Netherlands during the war.\n\nHer preaching focused on the Christian Gospel, with emphasis on forgiveness. In her book Tramp for the Lord (1974), she tells the story of how, after she had been preaching in Germany in 1947, she was approached by one of the cruelest former Ravensbrück camp guards. She was naturally reluctant to forgive him, but prayed that she would be able to. She wrote that she was then able to forgive, and that\n\nFor a long moment we grasped each other's hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God's love so intensely as I did then.\n\nShe also wrote (in the same passage) that in her post-war experience with other victims of Nazi brutality, it was those who were able to forgive who were best able to rebuild their lives.\n\nRabbi Daniel Lapin has lamented how little Corrie ten Boom is known among American Jews, and how she has been ignored in the U.S. by the Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1968, however, she was honoured by the State of Israel for her work in aid of the Jewish people by being invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles, at the Yad Vashem, near Jerusalem. Oskar Schindler is also honoured there.\n\nCorrie Ten Boom has been a beloved lightbearer for evangelical believers around the world. In the capacity of a Christian believer who has endured deadly persecution for the faith she has presented a strong word of warning to the western church. She said that the currently popular Pre-Tribulation Rapture doctrine was without Biblical foundation. She went on to warn that this easily believed doctrine would weaken the Church and leave it ill
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Here is the best I could find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_nursing_history\n\nGood Luck!!!
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mayor@lacity.org\nhttp://www.lacity.org/mayor/mayci.htm
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I wouldnt even try to explain it all here, theres just too much. Without doubt, Google is the most interesting one to read about, and the most important.\n\nThey have a page all about their history here, http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html\n\nHope that helps ya :)
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http://www.si.edu/archives/historic/history.htm#sib
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 23 (UPI) - The true identity of Sybil, called the most famous psychiatric patient in history, has been revealed 20 years after her case was made famous in a best-selling book and made- for-tv movie starring actress Sally Field. In a book scheduled for release next year, psychiatric historian Peter Swales reportedly reveals that Sybil was Shirley Ardell Mason, who died in Lexington, Ky., in February at the age of 75. Mason had lived quietly in Lexington for over 20 years, painting and running an arts business out of her home. \n\nandregide@mydejanews.com reports: \n\nShirley Ardell Mason, known as Sybil, passed on Feb. 26 of this year, she was 75. \n\nShe had been living in the Lexington, Kentucky area since the mid 1970's. She ran an art business out of her home. \n\nRumors have been circulating for years in the Lexington area that Mason was Sybil. \n\nDr. Cornelia Wilbur, who was Sybil's psychiatrist, had developed a close friendship with her. They were known by the neighbors as fast friends. They were constantly visiting each other, according to neighbors. \n\nA psychiatric historian out of New York City named Peter Swales is co-writing a book and doing a documentary for British television next month about Mason as Sybil. \n\nAs of January 2004, the book and film have not yet appeared.
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See http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/history.html
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she was an anthropoligist.\nshe was involved in the "back to africa movement" because she wanted to distinguish herself from other black activists who were involved in communism.\nher grave was unmarked until feminist Alice Walker decided to do something about it.\nshe grew up in the first american all black neighborhood (eatonville florida).\nduring the "red scare" she supported the president.\nwell, it's not ten things but it's a start
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Varina H. Davis  \n \n  \n   Category:    Confederate Statesman  \n  \n  Born:    1826    \n  \n  Died:    1906    \n \n\nOverview:    First Lady of the Confederate States of America  \n  \nBiography:    Varina Howell Davis was born at her family plantation, the Briers, near Natchez, Mississippi in 1826. As a plantation owner’s daughter, Davis received her education from a private tutor and later attended finishing school. She was seventeen when she met Jefferson Davis while visiting the Hurricane, the plantation of his older brother, Joseph Emory Davis. “Uncle Joe” was an old family friend, but it was the first time she met any of his extended family. Davis was taken with her beauty and intelligence, and by the time her visit ended two months later she and Davis were unofficially engaged. Margaret Howell, her mother, objected to the engagement. She was not convinced that Davis, widowed and eighteen years older than her daughter, was a good match for Varina. She thought he was too brooding, and feared that Varina would be second fiddle to his former wife. Eventually, however, she gave in and they were married on February 26, 1845.\n\n\n\nJefferson Davis had intended to live the life of a planter, but within just a few months of the wedding, he was nominated for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Long interested in politics, Varina was ideally suited for the life of a politician’s wife. Varina had grown up believing strongly in the Whig party. She gave up her Whig beliefs, however, for the Democratic views of her husband. As her husband rose in political ranks, she rose in the ranks of Washington society. When Jefferson Davis resigned his seat in the Senate at the outbreak of the Civil War, Varina was depressed and sad to the leave the city that had become her home, having lived there for most of her adult life. \n\n\n\n\nThey returned to their Mississippi plantation, the Brierfield but their days there were short. Jefferson Davis was elected the President of the Confederate State of America and the Davises moved first to Montgomery, Alabama, the temporary capital, and then to Richmond, Virginia, the permanent capital. There she was pleased to find many of her Southern friends from Washington DC, including Mary Chesnut. Varina settled comfortably into her new role as First Lady, and enjoyed much public support and adulation for the first year of the Confederacy. During the second year, however, as living conditions deteriorated and commodities became scarce, people began to speak out and criticize. While acknowledging her intelligence, critics claimed she put on airs, and that she wasn’t as well-read as she claimed. They accused her of being uncouth and domineering, having far too much influence over the President. Some accused her of entertaining too lavishly in such trying times, while others thought she was too skimpy and accused her of hoarding the President’s salary. Others frowned upon her style of entertaining, thinking it too much in the manner of the Yankee capital of Washington DC, and questioned her loyalty to the Confederacy. Despite the criticism, Varina continued in her support of the troops. She knitted countless articles of clothing for soldiers, donated rugs for blankets and made shoes of the scraps. She spent hours visiting soldiers in the hospitals, although she did not serve as a volunteer nurse at the request of her husband.\n\n\n\n\nFollowing Jefferson Davis’s arrest at the end of the Civil War, Varina Davis and the children were sent to Savannah, where she complained of being a virtual prisoner as she was forbidden to leave the city. While she rarely ventured out, the children did. The soldiers, carpetbaggers and Union supporters treated the children cruelly and Varina constantly worried for their safely. After a former slave leveled a gun at one of them, she arranged for them to go to Canada along with her mother. Varina then turned her attention to gaining her husband’s release f
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http://americanhistory.about.com/\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/history/toc.htm