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Dewey Polk 1899 - 1970

Dewey Polk of Slidell, Saint Tammany County, Louisiana was born on January 19, 1899, and died at age 71 years old in January 1970.
Dewey Polk
Slidell, Saint Tammany County, Louisiana 70458
January 19, 1899
January 1970
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Dewey Polk's History: 1899 - 1970

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    1899

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    January 19, 1899
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    1970

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    January 1970
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    Dewey Polk lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1899, in the year that Dewey Polk was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1901, when he was merely 2 years old, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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