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Bessie Thorpe 1907 - 1994

Bessie Thorpe of Durham, Durham County, NC was born on August 31, 1907, and died at age 86 years old on February 15, 1994.

Bessie Thorpe

Durham, Durham County, NC 27703

August 31, 1907

February 15, 1994

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In 1907, in the year that Bessie Thorpe was born, the showman Florenz Ziegfeld introduced his Ziegfeld Follies. Ziegfeld was inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris and the show was a step up from the then current vaudeville shows. The top entertainers of the time played in the Follies but the stars were the Ziegfeld girls - beautiful chorus girls in elaborate costumes. For almost a quarter of a century, the Ziegfeld follies were the toast of Broadway.

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In 1923, when she was 16 years old, on September 1, an earthquake - the Great Kanto earthquake - destroyed one-third of Tokyo. Measuring 7.9 and with a reported duration of between 4 and 10 minutes, casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead.

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