Amanda Blake

FAMOUS Americans born February 20

  ANGELINA EMILY Grimked was born in 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina. She was an American politician, lawyer, abolitionist and suffragist. She was born into an elite, holder of the Slavic family, who believed that their daughters should do everything the right way. This was not acceptable to the outspoken and curious girl. It has often offended his traditionalist family. She did not join their church Episcopalian, but converted to the Presbyterian faith. She eventually broke with them and took with the Quakers, and also decided that those of South Philadelphia, was the place for it to be. She was very publicly against the institution of slavery. She eventually became impatient of the slow response of the Quakers to the issue of slavery, becoming more extreme in his views on the subject. She journals such as the emancipator and the garrison of The Liberator. She joined the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1835. She spoke before the state legislature of Massachusetts in 1837 - the first woman to do so. She visited the North East and gave abolitionist and feminist conferences. In 1838, she married Theodore Dwight Weld, a leading abolitionist. He encouraged her activism, but not long after his health began to decline. (ae  1874)

  Ansel Easton Adams was born in 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was a photographer and an environmentalist. He is best known for his black and white photographs of the American West, particularly in Yosemite National Park. With Fred Archer he developed the zone system as a way to understand a good exposure and adjust the content of the final photograph. It serves mainly large format cameras because they have helped to ensure the sharpness of its images. With photographers Edward Weston and Cunningham Imogien Groupf/64 he founded, and also the Museum of Modern Art department of photography. He has memories of 1906 when he was four years of being slammed into a garden wall and breaking his nose. His nose has remained throughout his life. Her parents were inclined to follow the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson - to live modestly, morally and socially responsible for man and nature. Adams said his philosophy was as follows: - "I believe in the beauty, I think in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their destiny. "He wanted to reveal the beauty of nature with others. His first photographs were published in 1921 and in 1927 he contracted for his first portfolio. His career as a photographer has lasted 60 years. He died April 22 1984 at the age of 82 years.

  BEVERLY LOUISE NEILL (state name, Amanda Blake) was born in Buffalo, New York in 1929. She worked as a telephone operator before beginning his nearly 40 years as an actress. She is best known as Miss Kitty on the operation of the television series Gunsmoke-Long (1958-1966). After Gunsmoke it into semi-retirement, Blake moved to Phoenix. It was a great lover of animals, and are associated with others of the same state of mind to form the Arizona Animal Welfare League in 1971. This organization is still in force today and the largest "no kill" animal shelter in Arizona. She also contributed to the start of the scene Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), putting a lot of money and time to support this effort. The Amanda Blake Memorial Wildlife Refuge opened in Herald, California in 1997. Much of his adult life, she was two to three pack a day cigarette smoker. In 1980, she was diagnosed with oral cancer. She spoke to warnings on cigarette packets in the House of Representatives of the United States. Bla.