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Nebraska Stories #606, Restoring the Big Boy & More
Restoring The Big Boy All aboard for a new episode of Nebraska Stories! A year after it was towed from California to Union Pacific's railroad repair facility in Wyoming, we revisit the largest steam locomotive in the world for an update on its restoration.
For The Love of The Game Every town had a team, but not every team had a town. Check out the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame in Beatrice and explore a time when independent baseball leagues played every Sunday in old ball fields across our state.
The Cards You Are Dealt Former gang member Fredy Rincon is now a hard-working Nebraskan, married father of three and part-time artist. Last year he was voted Best Emerging Visual Artist at the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards.
Finding The Best Warrior With the close of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars the National Guard is implementing new methods to maintain troop preparedness. Nebraska Stories takes a look at how the Nebraska Army National Guard uses competition in training to stay ready for the next time soldiers go to war.
Wessels Farm Students from St. Joseph's Catholic School in York take a field trip to Wessels Living History Farm on the edge of town. From shelling corn by hand to eating pancakes fresh from a hot cob stove, they spend the day experiencing life as early 19th Century children.
George Henry Thomas | Wikipedia audio article
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George Henry Thomas
00:01:36 1 Early life and education
00:04:02 2 Antebellum military career
00:09:06 3 American Civil War
00:09:15 3.1 Remaining with the Union
00:10:59 3.2 Kentucky
00:12:00 3.3 Shiloh and Corinth
00:13:09 3.4 Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga
00:15:57 3.5 Atlanta and Franklin/Nashville
00:18:53 4 Later life and death
00:21:24 5 Legacy
00:25:35 6 In memoriam
00:27:19 7 See also
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- Socrates
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George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870) was a United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.
Thomas served in the Mexican–American War and later chose to remain with the U.S. Army for the Civil War as a Southern Unionist, despite his heritage as a Virginian (whose home state would join the Confederate States of America). He won one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, and served in important subordinate commands at Perryville and Stones River. His stout defense at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 saved the Union Army from being completely routed, earning him his most famous nickname, the Rock of Chickamauga. He followed soon after with a dramatic breakthrough on Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga. In the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of 1864, he achieved one of the most decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood, his former student at West Point, at the Battle of Nashville.
Thomas had a successful record in the Civil War, but he failed to achieve the historical acclaim of some of his contemporaries, such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. He developed a reputation as a slow, deliberate general who shunned self-promotion and who turned down advancements in position when he did not think they were justified. After the war, he did not write memoirs to advance his legacy. He also had an uncomfortable personal relationship with Grant, which served him poorly as Grant advanced in rank and eventually to the Presidency.
Battle of Cartagena de Indias | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Cartagena de Indias
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The Battle of Cartagena de Indias was an amphibious military engagement between the forces of Britain under Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon and those of Spain under the Viceroy Sebastián de Eslava. It took place at the city of Cartagena de Indias in March 1741, in present-day Colombia. The battle was a significant episode of the War of Jenkins' Ear and a large-scale naval campaign. The conflict later subsumed into the greater conflict of the War of the Austrian Succession. The battle resulted in a major defeat for the British Navy and Army.
The defeat caused heavy losses for the British. Disease (especially yellow fever), rather than deaths from combat, took the greatest toll on both the British and Spanish forces.
Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:46 1 History
00:01:55 1.1 Beginnings
00:09:50 1.2 Maturity as a university
00:12:04 2 Academics
00:12:13 2.1 Colleges and schools
00:12:58 2.2 Rankings
00:15:41 2.3 Parks Library
00:19:11 2.3.1 Underground Comix Collection
00:19:40 2.4 Intensive English and Orientation Program
00:20:27 3 Distinctions
00:20:36 3.1 Birthplace of first electronic digital computer
00:22:04 3.2 Birth of cooperative extension
00:23:02 3.3 Manhattan Project
00:24:55 3.4 VEISHEA celebration
00:26:57 4 Research
00:27:06 4.1 Ames Laboratory
00:28:41 4.2 ISU Research Park
00:29:45 4.3 Other research institutes
00:31:51 5 Campus
00:32:00 5.1 Recognition
00:33:34 5.2 Campanile
00:34:47 5.3 Lake LaVerne
00:36:23 5.4 Reiman Gardens
00:38:06 5.5 University Museums
00:38:46 5.5.1 Brunnier Art Museum
00:40:22 5.5.2 Farm House Museum
00:43:30 5.5.3 Art on Campus Collection
00:45:13 5.5.4 Christian Petersen Art Museum
00:47:22 5.5.5 Anderson Sculpture Garden
00:49:01 5.6 Sustainability
00:49:39 6 Student life
00:49:48 6.1 Residence halls
00:51:10 6.2 Student government
00:51:45 6.3 Student organizations
00:54:00 6.4 Music
00:54:34 6.5 Greek community
00:57:42 6.6 School newspaper
00:58:28 6.7 Campus radio
00:58:54 6.8 Student television
00:59:37 7 Athletics
01:01:50 7.1 Football
01:04:15 7.2 Men's basketball
01:09:38 7.3 Women's basketball
01:10:31 7.4 Volleyball
01:12:27 7.5 Wrestling
01:14:16 8 Notable alumni and faculty
01:14:55 9 See also
01:15:13 10 Notes and references
01:15:23 11 External links
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- Socrates
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Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference. Iowa State is classified as a research university with highest research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Iowa State is also a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), which consists of 60 leading research universities in North America.Founded in 1858 and coeducational from its start, Iowa State became the nation's first designated land-grant institution when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act on September 11, 1862, making Iowa the first state in the nation to do so.Iowa State's academic offerings are administered today through eight colleges, including the graduate college, that offer over 100 bachelor's degree programs, 112 master's degree programs, and 83 at the Ph.D. level, plus a professional degree program in Veterinary Medicine.Iowa State University's athletic teams, the Cyclones, compete in Division I of the NCAA and are a founding member of the Big 12 Conference. The Cyclones field 16 varsity teams and have won numerous NCAA national championships.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)