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Nan Shovlin 1899 - 1978

Nan Shovlin of Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA was born on March 20, 1899, and died at age 79 years old in December 1978.
Nan Shovlin
Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA 18706
March 20, 1899
December 1978
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Nan Shovlin's History: 1899 - 1978

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    1899

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    March 20, 1899
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    1978

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    December 1978
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    Nan Shovlin lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1899, in the year that Nan Shovlin 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 1904, Nan was only 5 years old when the Russo-Japanese war began. The Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire began fighting over the territories of Manchuria and Korea. Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean while Japan feared growing encroachment from Russia into Asia. So the Japan fleet launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy and a one year war began. President Roosevelt of the United States brokered peace between the two nations. It was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power showed its dominance over a European power.
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