Living together before marriage is one of America's most significant and unexpected family trends. By simple definition, living together-or. unmarried cohabitation--is the status of couples who are sexual partners, not married to each other, and sharing a household.
(1/16/1874 - 9/11/1958). Robert W. Service was born in 1874 in Preston, Lancashire, England and was the eldest child of 10. He composed his first poem at the age of 6 while living with his paternal grandfather and maiden aunts in Scotland. A mischievous youth, Robert always dreamt of adventure and going to sea.
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, gained freedom and became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters to the U.S. blockade. His example and persuasion helped convince President Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the