Olive Genevra Cook (1891 - 1949)

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Cook William Delafield Cook

Mary Brain Cook

Olive Genevra Cook

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Cook William Delafield Cook

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Mary Brain Cook

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Olive's Parents

William Delafield Cook

Mary Brain Cook

Olive Genevra Cook

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William Delafield Cook

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Mary Brain Cook

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Evelyn Lorraine Cook

My grandmother Ellen V Cook nee Hart

1983 Freeport High School Girls' J.V. Basketball

Vanessa Cook Freeport High School - 1986

Vanessa Cook aka Ness - Freeport Long Island

Roy Houston Cook Sr

Bertha Venus “Bert” (Walser) Cook

Ann Cook Whitman

Ann Cook Whitman

Greenwood Cemetery pond in Hamilton, Ohio, 1995

Bill A Cook Sr

Joe Coco

Jennie Cook born Batchelor

Norma Cook

Milt & Mary Milam Cook

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In 1891, in the year that Olive Genevra Cook was born, from March 9th through the 12th, a blizzard hit the south and west of England. Called the Great Blizzard of 1891, it led to snow drifts of up to 15 feet and killed 200 people and 6,000 animals. Fourteen ships sank.

In 1910, Olive was 19 years old when Thomas Edison introduced his kinetophone, which he hoped would make "talkies" a reality. But the sound wasn't synchronized to the pictures and only 45 Kinetophones were made.

In 1926, she was 35 years old when on October 31st, Harry Houdini died in Michigan. Houdini was the most famed magician of his time and perhaps of all time, especially for his acts involving escapes - from handcuffs, straitjackets, chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, and more. He was president of the Society of American Magicians and stringently upheld professional ethics. He died of complications from a ruptured appendix. Although he had received a blow to the area a couple of days previously, the connection between the blow and his appendicitis is disputed.

In 1930, she was 39 years old when as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, William Hays established a code of decency that outlined what was acceptable in films. The public - and government - had felt that films in the '20's had become increasingly risque and that the behavior of its stars was becoming scandalous. Laws were being passed. In response, the heads of the movie studios adopted a voluntary "code", hoping to head off legislation. The first part of the code prohibited "lowering the moral standards of those who see it", called for depictions of the "correct standards of life", and forbade a picture from showing any sort of ridicule towards a law or "creating sympathy for its violation". The second part dealt with particular behavior in film such as homosexuality, the use of specific curse words, and miscegenation.

In 1949, in the year of Olive Genevra Cook's passing, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Today, there are 26 nations in NATO.