Booker T. Washington's Death Revisited. BALTIMORE -- Booker T. Washington died of high blood pressure, a review of his medical records has determined, erasing a cloud over the civil rights leader's death left by one of his doctors more than 90 years ago.
Mount Saint Helens eruption 1980. Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century.
Native American names for Mount St. Helens were Loowit or Louwala-Clough, which meant smoking mountain. A Gifford Pinchot National Forest Mount St. Helens. Brochure (1980) tells the story of how Mount St. Helens came to be:his I have distinguished by the name of MOUNT ST. HELENS,in honor of his Britannic Majesty's ambassador at the court of Madrid. It is situated in latitude 46 o 9' and in longitude 238 o 4', according to our observations. ....