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Rosalynn was born in 1927 to Frances Allethea “Allie” Murray and Wilburn Edgar Smith. She grew up in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where her mother grew flowers like “zinnias, petunias, hollyhocks, [and] crepe myrtle” as well as “fig, pear, pecan and wild cherry [t...

Howard Carter’s father, Samuel John Carter was a successful artist based partly in London and Norfolk. He specialized in painting animals and was the principal animal illustrator for the London News in 1867–89. He kept large animal pens at his London residence for study purposes and enco...

This is a job for political scholars, some will say. And others would argue with a degree of credibility that this is also a job for American political buffs, not British Nigerians, who think that reading a number of books make them eminently qualified to determine who sits at top of the pantheon...