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Zora Shumway 1899 - 1972

Zora Shumway of Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles County, California was born on January 26, 1899, and died at age 73 years old in February 1972.
Zora Shumway
Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles County, California 91403
January 26, 1899
February 1972
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Zora Shumway's History: 1899 - 1972

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    1899

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    January 26, 1899
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    1972

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    February 1972
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    Zora Shumway lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1899, in the year that Zora Shumway was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1905, Zora was merely 6 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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