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Orpha M Ellefson 1910 - 2009

Orpha M Ellefson of Charles City, Floyd County, IA was born on April 20, 1910, and died at age 99 years old on October 16, 2009.
Orpha M Ellefson
Charles City, Floyd County, IA 50616
April 20, 1910
October 16, 2009
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  • 04/20
    1910

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    April 20, 1910
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  • 10/16
    2009

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    October 16, 2009
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    Orpha M Ellefson lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 99.
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In 1910, in the year that Orpha M Ellefson was born, Halley's comet, which returns past the earth every 75 - 76 years was observed photographically for the first time. Two fortuitous events occurred - photography had been invented since the last time the comet had passed and the comet was relatively close. There was panic because one astronomer claimed that the gas from its tail "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." People bought gas masks, "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas".
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In 1942, when she was 32 years old, on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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