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William H. Davis

... that William H. Davis (pictured) was the first teacher of Booker T. Washington and the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for West Virginia governor in 1888?
...that defence was not a significant factor in the design or placement of Earlstoun Castle, which was unusual for a 16th-century tower house?
... that Baya Gamani was freed from prison by his captor, King Mohnyin Thado, to defend the capital region of Ava?
... that the Manila Standard described the concert Two for the Knight as the "biggest team-up of a foreign and local artist" in the Philippines?
... that hostile references towards Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan by Khalil Farah were hidden in colloquial Sudanese Arabic?
... that when the University of South Dakota started a radio station, the transmitter was built by student and future Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence?
... that the 1971 Hazelwood massacre was the largest mass murder in the history of "Murder City"?
... that taxation may have played a part in the fall of the Roman Empire?