Maya Temples: Like many Maya buildings, Maya temples were built of stone, with platforms on the top where wooden and thatch structures could be built. Temples tended to be pyramids, with steep stone steps leading to the top, where important ceremonies and sacrifices took place.
role in. P.G.T. Braxton Bragg, (born March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.âdied Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas), Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861â65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.
Byron De La Beckwith, Jr. (November 9, 1920 â January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman from Greenwood, Mississippi, who in 1994 was convicted of assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963.Two previous trials in 1964 on this charge had resulted in hung juries.e La Beckwith was born in Colusa, California, the son of Susan Southworth Yerger and Byron De La Beckwith, Sr., who was the town's postmaster. His father died of pneumonia when he was five years old. One year later, De La Beckwith and his mother settled in Greenwood, Mississippi, to be near family.