The Polk Sisters' House is a historic house in Columbia, Tennessee, that was the home of two sisters of U.S. President James K. Polk. The Polk Sisters' House...

successful law practice in Tennessee, Polk was elected to its state legislature in 1823 and then to the United States House of Representatives in 1825, becoming...

Camp Polk was a former army camp in the U.S. state of Oregon that was established in Deschutes County in 1865. It was a post of the District of Oregon...

William Hawkins Polk (May 24, 1815 – December 16, 1862) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's...

Ralph Lane Polk (1849–1923) was an American compiler of facts and publisher of directories. Polk was born 12 September 1849 in Bellefontaine, Logan County...

42 Polk Sisters' House May 21, 1975 (#75001770) 305 W. 7th St. 35°36′54″N 87°02′16″W / 35.615°N 87.037778°W / 35.615; -87.037778 (Polk Sisters' House)...

the Willamette Valley and then reaches across the Cascades to take in Sisters and Bend. It includes a sliver of Multnomah County, the majority of Clackamas...

childhood home in Newport, Rhode Island. On July 30, 1966, she married Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, a recent graduate of Princeton University and future financier...

October 9, 2024) was an American politician who represented Polk County in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967 as a member of the Democratic...

Rebecca expresses shock that Mrs. Polk did not do anything. She reveals that they are in the Polk house and that Mrs. Polk is tied up downstairs. Eileen is...

Cherry Sisters – Addie (1859–1942), Effie (1867–1944), Ella (1854–1934), Lizzie (1857–1936), and Jessie Cherry (1871–1903) – were five sisters from Marion...

Their marriage produced Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd, who married Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, grandson of Levi P. Morton, former Vice President of the United...

America Newspapers The Oregonian Willamette Week The 6th district consists of Polk County and Yamhill County, in addition to portions of Marion County (including...

Rachel Jackson, late wife of President Andrew Jackson) married Lucius J. Polk in the East Room. November 29, 1832: Mary Anne Lewis (daughter of a close...

November 2024 (link) "Is Kwanzaa Still A Thing?". NPR. Fantozzi, Madison. "Polk events celebrate values of African culture". The Ledger. "Significance Of...

His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-9821-0643-0. Joe Biden at Wikipedia's sister projects Media from Commons News from...

Sidney Aaron James Angela Bassett as Monet Tumusiime Finn Wittrock as Jether Polk Frances Conroy as Denise Monroe Lady Gaga as Scáthach Adina Porter as Lee...

when it was used as a home for the aged by the Little Sisters of the Poor. In 1913, another Hull House ghost story began circulating. According to this legend...

The Sisters of the Holy Cross are one of three Catholic congregations of religious sisters which trace their origins to the foundation of the Congregation...

school at Salem was led by the Single Sisters, the unmarried women of the Moravian community. The Single Sisters lived together and were economically self-sufficient...

Taylor & Francis. p. 293. ISBN 9781317457404. The expansion engineered by Polk rendered the Democratic Party increasingly beholden to Southern slave interests...

ISBN 9783869308272. OCLC 965117169. Grant, Alexandra (2014). Grasshoppers. Osceola, NE: Polk County Historical Society. Cixous, Hélène; Grant, Alexandra; Nashak, Robert...

is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. Located along I-4 east of Tampa and west of Orlando, it is the most populous city in Polk County. As of...

and Ready". In 1845, during the annexation of Texas, President James K. Polk dispatched Taylor to the Rio Grande in anticipation of a battle with Mexico...

in the middle of the night and gunned down in his doorway, Detective Mike Polk must separate the facts from the fiction in the witnesses' stories before...

Martin Van Buren by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858 Portrait of James Knox Polk by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858 Portrait of John Tyler by George Peter...

JSTOR 3188498. Polk, Noel. "Trying Not to Say: A Primer on the Language of The Sound and the Fury". New Essays on The Sound and the Fury. Ed. Noel Polk. Cambridge:...

the Jack Robeson addition, which the house sits on today. One of the last two surviving carriage stones in Polk County was located in front of the home...

voluntary manslaughter (U.S. v. Holmes); pardoned Democratic president James K. Polk pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 268 people. Among them...

by the corps of Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee, followed by that of Leonidas Polk, overran the wing commanded by Maj. Gen. Alexander M. McCook. A stout defense...