Memoirist Margaret Murie

Margaret Murie

Living place: Seattle

Birthday: 18-8-1902

Population of US 1902: 79,163,000

Global rank: #64094

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Who is Memoirist Margaret Murie?
Known as the grandmother of the Conservation Movement, she helped pass the Wilderness Act and create the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She published one memoir in 1962, two in the Far North, and was the subject of a documentary called Arctic Dance.
She received both the Audubon Medal and the John Muir Award.

Young / Before famous

She began campaigning to protect the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge in 1956, recruiting a public supreme court to convince President Eisenhower to close the land out for development.

Family life info

She was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to Alaska at the age of five. She married Olaus Murie, a fellow naturalist and conservationist.

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Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Memoirist Margaret Murie là ai?
She spent her honeymoon researching reindeer with her husband on the Koyukuk River in Alaska. This river is also inspired by John Denver's ballad, A Song for All Over.

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When was Memoirist Margaret Murie born?
Margaret Murie was born in 18-8-1902, death year is , at the age of 122.
Where is Memoirist Margaret Murie's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Margaret Murie was born in Seattle, Washington- United States. Là Memoirist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Margaret Murie's global rank is 64094 and whose rank is 38 in list of famous Memoirist. Population of US in 1902 is about 79,163,000 persons.
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Events in 1902 and 18-8

Events in US in the birth year of Margaret Murie

  • Bureau of the Census is established; it later becomes part of the Department of Commerce.
  • Approximately 150 thousand United Mine Workers strike in Pennsylvania for a wage increase and more suitable hours.

Birthday Margaret Murie (18-8) in history

  • Day 18-8 year 1227: The great king of Mongolia, Genghis Khan died in China.
  • Day 18-8 year 1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first British child born in the "New World" North America.
  • Day 18-8 year 1894: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
  • Day 18-8 year 1920: When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
  • Day 18-8 year 1936: Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .
  • Day 18-8 year 1958: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published.
  • Day 18-8 year 1963: James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
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