FAMOUS GRAVE TOUR - New York #2 (Mae West, Houdini, etc.)
Welcome to Hollywood Graveyard, where we set out to remember and celebrate the lives of those who lived to entertain us, by visiting their final resting places. Today we continue our tour of New York in Brooklyn and Queens, to find such stars as Mae West, Harry Houdini, Louis Armstrong, and more.
Full list of stars visited today: Winsor McCay, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Bert Lahr, Edward G. Robinson, Harry Houdini, Victor Moore, Mae West, Jackie Robinson, Lucky Luciano*, Vito Genovese*, Carlo Gambino*, John Gotti*, Dom DeLuise, Louis Armstrong, Joyce Brothers, Bernard Herrmann, Abe Vigoda, Andy Kaufman, Martin Landau.
* - Organized Crime Figures
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Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell Im Going to Texas BBC4 [Subtitles]
Comedian Rich Hall goes to the Lone Star state in search of the real Texas and asks what it means to be a Texan. From the Alamo to the oil industry and everything in between, Rich explores the landscape, the people and the true heart of this historic state.
With the help of scholars, ranchers and musicians, Rich explores every aspect of what it is to be a Texan. He not only seeks the truth behind so many myths and legends in history and on screen, but gets to the very soul and explores how this land and its people has made such an impact on the rest of the world.
Rich goes from the ranches of Marfa to the music of Austin and the oil fields of Beaumont, and incorporates interviews, archive clips of some of cinema's finest films, historical photographs and footage, all brought together with his customary wit and intelligence.
This is an insight into the Texan psyche through its politics, sports, movies, industries and lifestyle, to find out if everything really is bigger in Texas.
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Fairbank Ghost Town, Cemetery, and the Grand Central Mill ~ Desert Hike
I am going to remake this video with information about the history of the area. It is pretty fascinating; a lot happened here! I don't have my microphone with me now but I still wanted to upload something for you.
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Fairbank is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, next to the San Pedro River. First settled in 1881, Fairbank was the closest rail stop to nearby Tombstone, which made it an important location in the development of southeastern Arizona.
Originally the location of a Native American village known as Santa Cruz in the 18th century, the area was later settled around the time the railroad came through in 1881, and developed further when the local railroad station was built in 1882. It was originally known as Junction City, then Kendall, then Fairbanks, and was formally founded as Fairbank on May 16, 1883 on the same day that the local Post Office opened.
Due to its proximity to Tombstone, and the fact that it boasted the nearest railroad station to what was one of the largest cities in the western United States, Fairbank acted as a way point between Tombstone and the rest of the country, bringing supplies into the bustling town, and also acting as the departure point for the ore pulled from Tombstone's silver mines on its way to the mills in Contention City and Charleston. Fairbank was also home to a stage coach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail line which opened in 1885. At its height in the mid-1880s, the town housed approximately 100 residents, and boasted a steam quartz mill, a general store, a butcher shop, a restaurant, a saloon, a Wells Fargo office, the railroad depot, and a stage coach station.
When the Tombstone mines closed after flooding in 1886, Fairbank's prominence declined as the nearby mills shutdown, and the rail depot it offered became increasingly unnecessary. Subsequent droughts drove away area farmers and ranchers, further isolating the town. Fairbank was reprieved from a possible extinction when the railroad linked nearby Bisbee to Fairbank's train depot in 1889, making Fairbank an important leg in the transit of copper mined from the highly productive Copper Queen Mine. However, the flooding of the San Pedro River in September 1890 caused significant property damage, thinning down the population further.
On February 15, 1900, Fairbank was the scene of an attempted train robbery of the express car on the Benson-Nogales train by the Burt Alvord gang. Express Messenger and former lawman Jeff Milton, drove off the bandits despite a serious bullet wound sustained to his arm. The robbery was unsuccessful, and gang member Three Fingered Jack Dunlop was mortally wounded, later to die in Tombstone after confessing to the attempted robbery.
In 1901, the Mexican land grant on which the town was situated was purchased by the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company who extended the leases on only the commercial building and several residences into the 1970s.
Remnants
By the mid-1970s Fairbank was all but deserted. The final remaining residents left when the buildings were deemed unsafe. After that, the post office closed, and the side roads became overgrown and largely impassable. Some years later, in 1986, the former Mexican Land Grant was acquired by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the town was incorporated into the San Pedro Riparian NCA as the Fairbank Historic Townsite. What remains of the town of Fairbank is now open to the public. The remaining structures include:
A commercial building, an adobe structure that used to house the general store, the post office, and the saloon. The structure has been stabilized by the BLM.
The Montezuma Hotel which was built in 1889 to the south of the Commercial Building. The hotel was torn down to make way for highway construction, and only portions of its foundation remain.
A small wooden house, built in 1885, in a style common in the 1880s.
The schoolhouse, built of gypsum block manufactured in nearby Douglas, AZ, was constructed in 1920, and was a functioning school through the 1930s.
A larger wooden house, built in 1925.
A stable and an outhouse, which were built in the early 1940s as part of a Works Progress Administration project based in Fairbank.
A railroad bridge, northwest of the townsite along the San Pedro River, built in 1927.
A railroad platform, west of the townsite, along the former railroad line
In March 2007, the BLM restoration of the schoolhouse was completed, and the structure was opened to the public as a museum and information center for Fairbank.
Shortly after its founding, the 1884 population estimate for Fairbank was roughly 100 people. US Census figures, taken every ten years, show the town's population peaking in 1890 at 478 residents, then shrinking to 171 by 1900, and then increasing again to a high of 269 in 1920 before entering a steady decline which ended with the abandonment of the town in the 1970s.
Pacific Northwest, Oregon Coast. Part 1 - 5K Nature Documentary Film with Narration (English)
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{WhereU} Black Business Facts: Maggie Lena Walker #BlackBusinessFacts
Black Business Facts: Maggie Lena Walker #BlackBusinessFacts
* Maggie L. Walker was an African-American teacher and businesswoman.
* She Founded The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903
* She was the first female bank president of any race to charter a bank in the United States.
* She led the Independent Order of St. Luke, an African-American fraternal society.
* As a serial entrepreneur, she also started a newspaper and other business ventures.
* Walker devoted her life to defeating racism, sexism, and economic oppression.
* Booker T. Washington acknowledged her in his publication, The Negro in Business.
* Her Office and her Home, built by black builder, George Boyd are National Historic Sites
* In 1934, the City of Richmond declared October as “Maggie L. Walker Month” in honor of all her accomplishments.
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Pan Americans, Consolidated Model-16 Commodore Flying Boat..wmv
The Consolidated Commodore was a flying boat built by Consolidated Aircraft and used for passenger travel in the 1930s, mostly in the Caribbean operated by companies like Pan American Airlines and NYRBA (New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line) who used the Consolidated Commodore flying boat on flights to Rio and Buenos Aires. In 1939 NYRBA was acquired by Pan American Airways and the Commodore seaplanes were transferred to PAA's fleet. The Commodores opened up new long-haul over-ocean routes for PAA with Charles Lindburgh flying most of the proving flights.
A pioneer of long haul passenger aircraft industry, the Commodore Clipper grew out of a Navy design competition in the 1920s to create an aircraft capable of nonstop flights between the mainland of the United States and Panama, Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands. In response to these requirement Consolidated produced the prototype XPY-1 in January 1929 but lost the contract to the Martin aircraft company. The aircraft represented a marked change from earlier patrol boat designs such as the Curtiss NC.
In response to losing the Navy contract, Consolidated offered a passenger-carrying version of the XPY-1, which became known as the Commodore. The monoplane all-metal hull could accommodate 32 passengers and a crew of 3. The full complement of passengers, located in three cabins, could only be carried on relatively short-route segments. For a 1000-mile flight, the boat probably could accommodate no more than 14 people including the crew. Wing and tail construction consisted of metal-frame structure covered with fabric except for metal-covered leading edges.
With a first flight in 1931, a total of 14 Commodore boats were built. They were used in airline service from the United States to South America where routes extended as far south as Buenos Aires, a distance of 9000 miles from Miami. They were out of service by 1935, having been superseded by more efficient aircraft such as the Sikorsky S-42, Boeing 314, and Martin M-130. The Commodore may be considered as a first step in the United States along a road that was to lead to the highly efficient monoplane-type patrol and transport flying boats later in the 1930s. The XPY-1 and its civil counterpart the Commodore may be considered as progenitors in a series of flying-boat developments that led to the famous Consolidated PBY Catalina of World War II fame.
Specifications:
General characteristics;
Number Built: 14
Capacity:
Passengers: 32
Crew: 3
Length: 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m)
Wingspan: 100 ft in (30.48 m)
Height: 19 ft 1 in (5.82 m)
Wing area: 1,514 ft² (140.65 m²)
Empty weight: 12,769 lb (5,792 kg)
Gross weight: 25,266 lb (11,460 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney Hornet radial piston, 575 hp (429 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 139 mph (224 km/h)
Range: 1,180 miles (1,899 km)
Service ceiling: 16,100 ft (4,905 m)
Music: I'm Beginning to see the Light, Performed by Harry james and Helen Forrest.
OWL Videoconference: Alaska Sequicentennial, September 13, 2017
Panel discussion on the 150th Anniversary of the purchase of Russian interests in Alaska.
Presenters:
Wayne Jensen, Juneau
Terrance Cole, Fairbanks
Stephen Haycox, Anchorage
Aaron Leggett, Anchorage
Ross Coen, Seattle
The panel was moderated by Ron Inouye in Fairbanks. This program was presented by the Alaska Library Network and funded by the Alaska Historical Commission.
Phoenix, Arizona | Wikipedia audio article
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Phoenix () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With 1,626,078 people (as of 2017), Phoenix is the fifth most populous city nationwide, the most populous state capital in the United States, and the only state capital with a population of more than one million residents.Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in turn is a part of the Salt River Valley. The metropolitan area is the 12th largest by population in the United States, with approximately 4.73 million people as of 2017. In addition, Phoenix is the seat of Maricopa County, and at 517.9 square miles (1,341 km2), it is the largest city in the state, more than twice the size of Tucson and one of the largest cities in the United States.Settled in 1867 as an agricultural community near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers, Phoenix incorporated as a city in 1881. It became the capital of Arizona Territory in 1889. Located in the northeastern reaches of the Sonoran Desert, Phoenix has a hot desert climate. Despite this, its canal system led to a thriving farming community with many of the original crops, such as alfalfa, cotton, citrus, and hay, remaining important parts of the Phoenix economy for decades. Cotton, cattle, citrus, climate, and copper were known locally as the Five C's of Phoenix's economy. These industries remained the driving forces of the city until after World War II, when high-tech companies began to move into the valley and air conditioning made Phoenix's hot summers more bearable.The city averaged a four percent annual population growth rate over a 40-year period from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s. This growth rate slowed during the Great Recession of 2007–09, and has rebounded slowly. Phoenix is the cultural center of the Valley of the Sun, as well as the entire state.
Victoria BC Double Decker Hop-On Hop-Off Sightseeing Bus 360° Tour
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A Load of Buell? Another Look at The Cannoneer (Lecture)
Many stories have been spun about the American Civil War; some of them better than others. In the modern marketplace, everything from AK-47 wielding Confederates to a vampire-slaying Lincolns Permeates the battlefields in search of profit. With this as a backdrop, let us re-evaluate the scorned story of one soldier of the Union in A Load of Buell?- Another look at the Cannoneer
Shannon Martineau | Oral History Interview
This video is from an oral history project on LaVan Martineau the writer of the best selling Book “The Rocks Begin To Speak” published in1971.
Mr Martineau’s daughter Shannan was interviewed at the DSU library. She is a member of the Southern Piaute tribe , the Shivwit Band. She shared information on her tribal history and her fathers lifelong interaction with the Southern Piautes. Also how his interest and dedication in studying the local petroglyphs resulted in the publication of his book.
Utah | Wikipedia audio article
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Utah
00:01:58 1 Etymology
00:02:54 2 History
00:03:03 2.1 Pre-Columbian
00:03:53 2.2 Spanish exploration (1540)
00:05:40 2.3 Latter Day Saint settlement (1847)
00:09:06 2.4 Utah Territory (1850–1896)
00:15:33 2.5 20th century
00:18:18 3 Geography
00:24:10 3.1 Climate
00:30:28 3.2 Wildlife
00:30:44 3.2.1 Mammals
00:31:22 3.2.2 Birds
00:31:30 3.2.3 Insects
00:32:16 3.3 Vegetation
00:32:28 4 Demographics
00:33:38 4.1 Health and fertility
00:34:41 4.2 Ancestry and race
00:36:38 4.3 Religion
00:39:37 4.4 Languages
00:40:26 4.5 Age and gender
00:40:49 5 Economy
00:43:14 5.1 Taxation
00:43:49 5.2 Tourism
00:46:31 5.2.1 Branding
00:47:27 5.3 Mining
00:48:53 5.3.1 Incidents
00:49:22 5.4 Energy
00:49:32 5.4.1 Potential to use renewable energy sources
00:50:07 6 Transportation
00:53:30 7 Law and government
00:54:34 7.1 Counties
00:55:18 7.2 Women's rights
00:56:02 7.3 Free-range parenting
00:56:28 7.4 Constitution
00:56:55 7.5 Alcohol, tobacco and gambling laws
00:58:06 7.6 Same-sex marriage
00:59:06 7.7 Politics
01:05:32 8 Major cities and towns
01:07:40 9 Colleges and universities
01:07:50 10 Culture
01:07:59 10.1 Sports
01:12:10 10.2 Entertainment
01:12:30 10.2.1 Books
01:14:43 10.2.2 Film
01:15:20 10.2.3 Video Games
01:15:54 11 See also
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Utah ( YOO-taw, -tah listen) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.
Approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), making Utah the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. This greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Church's world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City.The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median average income and the least income inequality of any U.S. state. A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.
Index of World War II articles (U) | Wikipedia audio article
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U-571 (film)
UA
U-boat Front Clasp
U-boat War Badge
U-Boote westwärts
U-Man
U.S.-British Staff Conference (ABC-1)
U.S. 20th Air Base Group
U.S. 5th Interceptor Command
U.S. Army Forces Far East
U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East
U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform
U.S. campaigns in WWII
U.S. Divisions Active in the Normandy Campaign
U.S. Grant Sharp, Jr.
U.S. Marine Raider Stiletto
U.S. theaters of operations in World War II
Uckermark concentration camp
Udo von Woyrsch
Udo Walendy
Uehara Yūsaku
Ugo Agostoni
Ugo Cavallero
Ugo de Carolis
Ugo Frigerio
Uilke Vuurman
Uk vz. 59
Ukishima Maru
Ukrainian-German collaboration during World War II
Ukrainian Canadian internment
Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Paris
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ukrainian Liberation Army
Ukrainian National Army
Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
Uku Masing
Ulanhu
Ulbricht group
Ulithi
Ulla Erna Frieda Juerss
Ulrich Graf (SS officer)
Ulrich Kleemann
Ulrich Ramé
Ulrich von Hassell
Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld
Ulster Defence Volunteers
Ultra-Metallo
Ultra
Ulven concentration camp
Ulvert M. Moore
Ulysses S. Grant III
Umberto Caligaris
Umberto De Morpurgo
Umberto Meoli
Umezawa Michiharu
Umrao Singh
Umschlagplatz
Unbestowed awards of Nazi Germany
Uncle Albert
Uncle Sam Wants You recruitment poster
Uncompleted U-boat projects
Under a War-Torn Sky
Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Under the Red Sea Sun
Underground education in Poland during World War II
Underground media in German-occupied Europe
Unidentified body on Christmas Island
Unio Sarlin
Union Movement
Union of Bulgarian National Legions
Union of Poles in Germany
Union of Retaliation
Unit 100
Unit 1855
Unit 200
Unit 2646
Unit 516
Unit 543
Unit 731
Unit 773
Unit 8604
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Unit 9420
Unit Ei 1644
Unit identification aircraft markings
United Church, The Chapel on the Hill, Oak Ridge, TN
United Defense M42
United Kingdom declaration of war on Japan (1941)
United Klans of America
United Nations Conference on International Organization
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United Nations War Crimes Commission
United Nations
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United States aircraft production during World War II
United States Army Air Forces
United States Army enlisted rank insignia of World War II
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United States Army Uniform in World War II
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United States Engineer Regiments in World War II
United States Fourth Fleet
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States home front during World War II
United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121
United States in the 1950s
United States Maritime Commission
United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory
United States Navy Armed Guard
United States Office of War Information
United States Political Leadership in World War II
United States Porpoise-class submarine
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Untermensch
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Up An' Atom (B-29)
Up Front (game)
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Upper Silesian Offensive Operation
Uprising (2001 film)
Uraga Dock Company
Urakami Cathedral
Urakami
Ural bomber
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Uravan, Colorado
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Timeline of Christian missions | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:12 1 Apostolic Age
00:01:57 2 Early Christianity
00:05:57 3 Era of the seven Ecumenical Councils
00:16:04 4 Middle Ages
00:19:07 5 1000 to 1499
00:27:30 6 1500 to 1600
00:44:58 7 1600 to 1699
01:03:37 8 1700 to 1799
01:26:16 9 1800 to 1849
01:42:16 10 1850 to 1899
01:59:20 11 1900 to 1949
02:11:58 12 1950 to 1999
02:24:01 13 2000 to present
02:26:46 14 Footnotes
02:26:55 15 See also
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This timeline of Christian missions chronicles the global expansion of Christianity through a listing of the most significant missionary outreach events.
History of Western civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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History of Western civilization
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Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean. It is linked to the Roman Empire and with Medieval Western Christendom which emerged from the Middle Ages to experience such transformative episodes as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, scientific revolution, and the development of liberal democracy. The civilizations of Classical Greece and Ancient Rome are considered seminal periods in Western history; a few cultural contributions also emerged from the pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, such as the Celts and Germans, as well as some significant religious contributions derived from Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism stemming back to Second Temple Judea, Galilee, and the early Jewish diaspora; and some other Middle Eastern influences. Christianity and Roman Catholicism has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization, which throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture. (There were Christians outside of the West, such as China, India, Russia, Byzantium and the Middle East). Western civilization has spread to produce the dominant cultures of modern Americas and Oceania, and has had immense global influence in recent centuries in many ways.
Following the 5th century Fall of Rome, Western Europe entered the Middle Ages, during which period the Catholic Church filled the power vacuum left in the West by the fall of the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire) endured in the East for centuries, becoming a Hellenic Eastern contrast to the Latin West. By the 12th century, Western Europe was experiencing a flowering of art and learning, propelled by the construction of cathedrals and the establishment of medieval universities. Christian unity was shattered by the Reformation from the 16th century. A merchant class grew out of city states, initially in the Italian peninsula (see Italian city-states), and Europe experienced the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century, heralding an age of technological and artistic advance and ushering in the Age of Discovery which saw the rise of such global European Empires as those of Spain and Portugal.
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century. Under the influence of the Enlightenment, the Age of Revolution emerged from the United States and France as part of the transformation of the West into its industrialised, democratised modern form. The lands of North and South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand became first part of European Empires and then home to new Western nations, while Africa and Asia were largely carved up between Western powers. Laboratories of Western democracy were founded in Britain's colonies in Australasia from the mid-19th centuries, while South America largely created new autocracies. In the 20th century, absolute monarchy disappeared from Europe, and despite episodes of Fascism and Communism, by the close of the century, virtually all of Europe was electing its leaders democratically. Most Western nations were heavily involved in the First and Second World Wars and protracted Cold War. World War II saw Fascism defeated in Europe, and the emergence of the United States and Soviet Union as rival global powers and a new East-West political contrast.
Other than in Russia, the European Empires disintegrated after World War II and civil rights movements and widescale multi-ethnic, multi-faith migrations to Europe, the Americas and Oceania lowered the earlier predominance of ethnic Europeans in Western culture. European nations moved towards greater economic and political co-operation through the European Union. The Cold War ended around 1990 with the collapse of Soviet imposed Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the 21st century, the Western World retains significant global economic power and influ ...
Washington and Lee University Undergraduate Commencement 2018
The 231st undergraduate commencement was held on Thursday, May 24, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. on the Front Lawn of the main campus.
Charles Lindbergh | Wikipedia audio article
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. Lindbergh covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. This was not the first flight between North America and Europe, but he did achieve the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the Crime of the Century and was described by H. L. Mencken as the biggest story since the Resurrection. The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with their victim. By late 1935, the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist.
Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three German women (two from Bavaria, one from East Prussia) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world.
Omaha, Nebraska | Wikipedia audio article
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Omaha, Nebraska
00:05:23 1 History
00:07:22 1.1 Pioneer Omaha
00:09:34 1.2 19th century
00:13:22 1.3 20th century
00:20:48 1.4 21st century
00:23:36 2 Geography
00:26:46 2.1 Neighborhoods
00:28:34 2.2 Landmark preservation
00:30:06 2.3 Climate
00:31:49 3 Demographics
00:31:58 3.1 2010 census
00:34:21 3.2 2000 census
00:36:08 3.3 People
00:43:07 3.4 Latinos in Omaha
00:43:17 4 Economy
00:44:58 4.1 Top employers
00:45:12 4.2 Tourism
00:46:37 5 Culture
00:48:05 5.1 Henry Doorly Zoo
00:48:41 5.2 Old Market
00:50:16 5.3 Music
00:53:18 5.4 Popular culture
00:55:56 6 Sports and recreation
00:59:09 6.1 Recreation
01:00:32 7 Government and politics
01:03:20 7.1 Crime
01:05:37 8 Education
01:08:21 9 Media
01:09:48 10 Infrastructure
01:11:42 10.1 Transportation
01:15:55 11 Notable people
01:16:04 12 Sister cities
01:16:33 13 See also
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Omaha ( OH-mə-hah) is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omaha's population was 408,958, having increased to 466,893 as of the 2017 estimate. This makes Omaha the nation's 40th-largest city. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, with an estimated population of 895,151 residing in eight counties. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 estimate. Nearly 1.3 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50 miles (80 kilometers) radius of Downtown Omaha, the city's center.
Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the Gateway to the West. Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the World's Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omaha's central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the world's largest, and its meatpacking plants gained international prominence.
Today, Omaha is the home to the headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies: mega-conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway; one of the world's largest construction companies, Kiewit Corporation; insurance and financial firm Mutual of Omaha; and the United States' largest railroad operator, Union Pacific Corporation. Berkshire Hathaway is headed by local investor Warren Buffett, one of the richest people in the world, according to a decade's worth of Forbes Magazine rankings, some of which have ranked him as high as No. 1. Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters: Green Plains Renewable Energy, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, Werner Enterprises, and West Corporation. Also headquartered in Omaha are First National Bank of Omaha, the largest privately held bank in the United States; three of the nation's largest 10 architecture/engineering firms: DLR Group, HDR, Inc., and Leo A Daly; the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame; and its riverfront Gallup University. Enron began in Omaha as Northern Natural Gas in 1930, before taking over a smaller Houston company in 1985 to form InterNorth, which Kenneth Lay moved permanently to Houston, in 1987. First Data, another Fortune 500 company, was founded in Omaha in 1971 and headquartered there until the late 90's. ConAgra Brand ...
Utah | Wikipedia audio article
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Utah ( YOO-taw, -tah listen) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.
Approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), making Utah the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. This greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Church's world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City.The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median average income and the least income inequality of any U.S. state. A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.
2011 African American History Month Theme
Marcus Williams from the communications office at OPM tells us what this year's African American History Month's theme is all about.