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William Cairns 1899 - 1986

William Cairns of South Richmond Hill, Queens County, NY was born on March 18, 1899, and died at age 87 years old in September 1986.
William Cairns
South Richmond Hill, Queens County, NY 11419
March 18, 1899
September 1986
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    1899

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    March 18, 1899
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  • 09/dd
    1986

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    September 1986
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    William Cairns lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1899, in the year that William Cairns 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 1933, by the time he was 34 years old, on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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