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John Two Guns White Calf (also known as John Two Guns and John Whitecalf Two Guns) (1872–1934) was a chief of the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana. He was born near Fort Benton, Montana and was the adopted son of Chief White Calf. After the elder White Calf died in 1902, White Calf became the last chief of the Blackfoot Tribe. He died of pneumonia at the age of 63 and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in Browning, Montana. Promotional career He became famous for his work promoting the Glacier National Park for the Great Northern Railway. In 1912, he travelled with several other Blackfeet to the 1912 United States Land Show in Chicago to make what was possibly the first publicity trip for the tribe. He also claimed to be the model for the profile on the Indian head nickel. However, the sculptor, James Earle Fraser, said that the image he used was a composite of several people. In 1971, Walter Wetzel created the Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a profession ...
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John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ...
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Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Australia *Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia *Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia *Central Australia Railway was known as the great Northern Railway in the 1890s in South Australia *Main North railway line, New South Wales (Australia) Canada *Great Northern Railway of Canada Ireland *Great Northern Railway (Ireland) New Zealand *Kingston Branch (New Zealand) in Southland *Main North Line, New Zealand and Waiau Branch in Canterbury United Kingdom *Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) **Thameslink and Great Northern, a current operator of trains on this route United States *Great Northern Railway (U.S.), now part of the BNSF Railway system *International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, U.S., now part of the Union Pacific Railroad *New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was a gauge railway originally commissioned by the St ...
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Deaths From Pneumonia
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain death Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain life. It differs from persistent vegetative state, in which the person is alive and some aut ... is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The remains of a former organism normally begin to Decomposition, decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable process that eventually occurs in Biological immortality, almost all organisms. Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of an organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered an organism, such as a virus, can be physically destro ...
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