Robbie Ludlum, Veteran Reflections 3.0 - 25 May 2017
Robbie Ludlum, United States Air Force Veteran, speaks in front of a live audience at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio about his experiences in the military.
Joe Rusk, Veteran Reflections 3.0 - 25 May 2017
Joe Rusk, United States Army Veteran, speaks in front of a live audience at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio about his experiences in the military.
James Shaw, Veteran Reflections 3.0 - 25 May 2017
James Shaw, United States Air Force Veteran, speaks in front of a live audience at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio about his experiences in Vietnam and the military.
Sindie Secosky, Veteran Reflections 3.0 - 25 May 2017
Sindie Secosky, United States Army Veteran, speaks in front of a live audience at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio about her experiences in Iraq and the military.
Tyler J. Britton, Veteran Reflections 3.0 - 25 May 2017
Tyler J. Britton, United States Air Force Veteran, speaks in front of a live audience at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio about his experiences in Afghanistan transporting troops as part of a Critical Care Air Transport Team.
Westinghouse Traction High-Rise Elevators at Atrium One in Downtown Cincinnati (9, 14 - 20)
Unlike the taller Atrium Two, this building has a more classy look to it.
Location: Atrium One
City: Cincinnati, OH
Recorded: April 13, 2012
So Cincinnati: Herb and Thelmas
COVINGTON, Ky. (Joe Webb) -- If you've driven up the hill on Covington's Pike Street you've undoubtedly seen the odd shaped building on the big curve. If you step inside, chances are you'll see Rich Ritchie at the grill. It's his baby. There's no other grill like it. It's a 1940's version of the South Bend grill. It's got a seasoned platter on it, seasoned in more ways than one. Not only has it soaked in the flavors of fried bologna and hot metts, it's acquired a real burger seasoning. This old grill cooks a lot of burgers. On an average week? 300-325 burgers. You take that times 52 weeks a year and you make between 15,000 and 17,000 burgers a year. Each one a third-pound, hand-made patty of burger that was ground that day and never frozen. Slow-cooked. It's what brings back the regulars and draws in first- timers, like Emily Frank. She got the standard cheeseburger with pickle and onion. It was a great experience. It's delicious. It tastes fresh. You can taste the grill. It all comes together very well. A single cheeseburger is $2.50. The building was built in 1859. It's been a barber shop, bank and apartments. Since 1939, it's been pretty much what it is today. Rich bought the place two years ago from the Boehmker family who ran it for 73 years. He has filled it with memorabilia, authentic beer lights from local brewers, and a trolley car ad from the old green line that clacked up the hill past the bar for generations. The burgers are a big draw to Herb and Thelma's but there's more. For the people who came here with their grandparents and parents, it's continuity. A sense of place. This is just like old Covington and it's a warm, inviting place.It's a refreshing step into the past and we're losing them. We just lost Chez Nora last week. We're losing these places one-by-one. Rich has Herb and Thelma's on the market. The 80-hour weeks are getting to him. He hopes to find a buyer who keeps it like it is. So does the throng that gobbles up those 15,000 burgers every year. Because you can get a burger a lot of places but Herb and Thelma's is the only place you can get one of like these. Herb and Thelma's got its name from Herb Boehmker and his wife, Thelma, who bought the place from Herb's father in 1961. Herb sold the bar to his son Chip in 1984 and he ran it until 2012.
Monkeys swim in a pond at a municipal zoo in Cincinnati, Ohio. HD Stock Footage
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Cranley Encourages Voter Referendum on Streetcar
CINCINNATI (WKRC) -- There are several new developments on Cincinnati's streetcar. After first saying the conversation was over, mayor-elect John Cranley changes gears Thursday saying he would welcome a voter referendum on the project. Cranley says he wants to end construction as soon as possible. The streetcar survived two previous ballot issues that would have blocked it in 2009 and 2011. Meantime current mayor Mark Mallory released a letter Thursday confirming the money from the federal government for the streetcar will go to other states if it's cancelled. Cranley wanted to use it on other projects in the city. Supporters host a Town Hall meeting Thursday in an effort to keep the streetcar on track. It's at 7p.m. at the Mercantile Library downtown on Walnut between fourth and fifth.
South Fairmount church asking for help
The church once had a congregation of 1,500. It has dwindled to 25 people.
Last One Standing
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Everyday in the United States, on average, 10 historic buildings are being demolished. From one room school houses to skyscrapers, the structures that formed our way of life and the people who we are today, are now disappearing and will never be seen again. Which one will be the last one standing.
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Warren is a city in and the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States.[5] The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio, approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Youngstown and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Cleveland.
The population was 41,558 at the 2010 census. Warren is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798, on 441 acres (1.78 km2) of land that he purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Quinby named the town for the town's surveyor, Moses Warren. The town was the county seat of the Western Reserve, then became the Trumbull County seat in 1801.[6]
In 1833, Warren contained county buildings, two printing offices, a bank, five mercantile stores, and about 600 inhabitants.[7]
Warren had a population of nearly 1,600 people in 1846. In that same year the town had five churches, twenty stores, three newspaper offices, one bank, one woolen factory and two flourmills. In June 1846, a fire destroyed several buildings on one side of the town square, but residents soon replaced them with new stores and other businesses. Warren became an important center of trade for farmers living in the surrounding countryside during this period. Songwriter Stephen Foster, his wife Jane McDowell, and their daughter Marion lived briefly in Warren.
During the latter decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, Warren remained an important trading and manufacturing center. By 1888, four railroads connected the community with other parts of Ohio. In that same year, there were five newspaper offices, seven churches, three banks and numerous manufacturing firms in Warren. The businesses manufactured a wide variety of products including linseed oil, furniture, barrel staves, wool fabric, blinds, incandescent bulbs, automobiles[8] and carriages. Warren was the first town in the US to have an electric street illumination, provided by the Packard Electric Company, founded 1890 in Warren.[8] Warren's population was 5,973 people in 1890. Construction began on the Trumbull County Courthouse in downtown Warren on Thanksgiving Day, 1895.[9]
Warren continued to grow in the twentieth century. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, steel production was a major industry in the county because of large deposits of coal and iron ore in surrounding counties. In recent years, many Warren residents have worked in local service and retail sales businesses. In 2000, Warren was Trumbull County's most populated community, with 46,832 residents. Many examples of late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles still stand in downtown Warren, including the Trumbull County Courthouse, which contains one of the largest courtrooms in the state of Ohio and the Trumbull County Carnegie Law Library in addition to office buildings, banks, stores, and homes surrounding the Courthouse Square area
Tri-County Mall - Raw & Real Retail
This is our walkthrough of the Tri-County Mall in Springdale, OH from May 25, 2019. This is a dying mall in an overmalled area of greater Cincinnati. It seems as if multiple ownership changes and poor decisions later in its life has helped push this mall along its death spiral a bit faster than some others. It seems like everyone just up and split real quick rather than a long dying period. Rather unfortunate, it is a beautiful property and was a delight to walk around.
Songs used in this video (in order):
Alan Hawkshaw - Miraculous Dream
Alan Hawkshaw - Collect
Alan Hawkshaw - Sky Train
Alan Hawkshaw - Exhilaration
Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett - Getting It Together
Steve Gray - Wonder Groove
Steve Gray - Reach Out
Here is a portion of an unusually well written wikipedia article:
Tri-County Mall is a shopping mall located on State Route 747 (Princeton Pike) just south of Interstate 275 in the city of Springdale, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Originally known as Tri-County Shopping Center, it opened in 1960 and has been expanded several times in its history. The original shopping center was an open-air property featuring H. & S. Pogue Company (Pogue's) and John Shillito Company (Shillito's) as the anchor stores.
Joseph Meyerhoff, a businessman who had developed several shopping and residential properties in Baltimore, Maryland, announced plans for the Tri-County Center in 1959. The plans called for a shopping center with two Cincinnati-based department stores as the anchor stores: Shillito's and Pogue's, positioned at the north and south ends respectively of an open-air mall concourse. Other tenants announced for the center included an S. S. Kresge Corporation dime store, a Kroger supermarket, and Gray Drug. The mall officially opened to the public on September 26, 1960.
Sears opened as the mall's third anchor store in May 1967, and was connected to the rest of the mall by a new wing of stores. Unlike the rest of the mall at the time, the expansion wing was enclosed, featuring palm trees, tropical plants, and fountains, along with antique lights and skylights. In early 1968, the rest of the formerly open-air mall was enclosed as well, featuring décor similar to the 1967 expansion.
Monumental Properties, the name which Meyerhoff's real estate division had assumed in 1970, sold the mall to Equitable Life Insurance (now AXA Equitable Holdings) for $34 million in 1979.
Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) merged the John Shillito Company and the Rike Kumler Co. (Rike's) under the singular name Shillito-Rike's in 1982. Four years later, all of the Shillito-Rike's stores were further consolidated under the Lazarus name. Another anchor change ensued in 1984 when Pogue's parent company, Associated Dry Goods, merged the chain with L. S. Ayres of Indianapolis. A food court opened off the main entrance in 1985, with nine restaurants.
The mall underwent an expansion in 1990, which doubled the number of shops by adding a second level atop the existing portion of the mall. Also, a fountain was added to center court, and the food court was relocated to a larger location on the newly-built upper level by Sears. The final part of the expansion, a two-story, 240,000-square-foot McAlpin's department store, opened as the mall's fourth anchor store one year later.
Equitable Life Insurance put Tri-County and several other mall properties up for sale in December 1996. It was sold to the O'Connor Group in July 1997 for $147 million. In 1998, Dillard's acquired the Mercantile Stores Company, which resulted in all of the McAlpin's stores being rebranded as Dillard's. Blackstone Group, a real estate company based out of New York City, announced negotiations to buy the mall from O'Connor Group in 2002. Blackstone then sold the mall to Thor Equities in 2005.
Two further anchor changes occurred under Thor Equities' ownership. Lazarus, which had been dual-branded by Federated Department Stores as Lazarus-Macy's in 2003, became just Macy's in 2005. Also, J. C. Penney closed its Tri-County location in 2005. One year later, the former J. C. Penney building underwent a major renovation, in which a new mall hallway was run through the lower level of the building, leading to a new mall entrance. A joint venture of Coventry Real Estate and Developers Diversified Realty (now SITE Centers) bought the mall in May 2006.
In July 2013, the mall was purchased by SingHaiyi Group, a real estate company based in Singapore. Dillard's downgraded its store to an outlet store in 2013, and then closed it in 2015. To counter the decline in tenancy, SingHaiyi announced a renovation project in 2015.
On June 4, 2018, Sears announced that its Tri-County store would close in September 2018. Despite the closure of other anchors, Macy's opened a division of its discount format Backstage at its Tri-County location in 2018.
John Johnson's Farm & Indian Agency 2017
John Johnston was born on March 25th, 1775 in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He came to America at age 11 and settled in Pennsylvania, where he remained until the age of 16 when he entered the mercantile trade and began to transport supplies to the various forts on the frontier. During these journies he first 'laid eyes' on the land known as Upper Piqua, near the Great Miami river in present day Piqua, Ohio. He 'determined' to have it for his own, and kept this promise to himself some 12 years later when, in 1804, he purchased the land. At the time Johnston was serving as an Indian Factor for the US Government, operating a trading post in Fort Wayne in the Indian Territory (now Fort Wayne, IN). Later Johnston became the Federal Indian Agent at the fort. He continued to serve in Indiana until 1811, when he retired to his beloved Upper Piqua farm to become a 'gentleman farmer'.
John Johnston's days of peace and quiet were short. Less than a year after he and his growing family moved into the Upper Piqua farm, in June of 1812, war broke out. The US government needed someone in Ohio with experience with both Indians and soldiers to act as their agent, and Johnston was the perfect candidate. John Johnston became the Indian Agent for the Shawnee in 1812, and for the Wyandot and Seneca tribes in 1816. He also handled the Lenape or Delaware during this time. Johnston's role in Ohio during the War of 1812 was crucial. By the strength of his character he earned the trust of the various Indian tribes, and this trust allowed him to keep the peace during this turbulent time.
After the war ended, the Upper Piqua agency continued until 1829. At that time there wa a change of administration in Washington. As Andrew Jackson's Democrats took charge, those - like John Johnston - who were of the Whig party lost their jobs. By 1830 the Upper Piqua Indian Agency had ended, though Native Americans continued for years to come to the farm for aid and the company of their old friend.
John Johnston had many other interests, including farming, education, and the advancement of the state of Ohio, Miami County in particular. In 1825 he became one of Ohio's Canal Commissioners, and was responsible along with the others on the commission for choosing the route the Miami & Erie Canal would take through Ohio. He was on the traveling board of West Point Military Academy, and was one of the founding members of Kenyon College. Johnston was also a president and contributing member of the Cincinnati Historical and Philosophical Society.
A short biography of John Johnston would not be complete without mention of his family, the care and maintenance of which played a large part in his life. His wife, Rachel Robinson, was from Philadelphia. Her mother, a Quakeress, objected to 17 year old Rachel's choice of a man who not only espoused the Episcopalian faith, but was a captain of militia headed for a post at a military fort. The couple eloped in 1802 and began their life together by making an 850 mile journey through Indian territory to Fort Wayne. Their first child, Stephen, was born in August of 1803 at the fort. The last, James Adams, was born in 1830 on the Upper Piqua farm. In total, the Johnstons had 15 children, 14 of whom lived until adulthood.
John Johnston died in February of 1861, one month before the Civil War broke out. His life of nearly 86 year spans the history of the United States. Born in the year of Lexington and Concord, he met George Washington as a young man while residing in Philadelphia, served as a US Factor and Indian Agent under Presidents Jefferson through John Quincy Adams, and when he died in Washington City (present day Washington DC), Abraham Lincoln was in the White House. John Johnston's life and the site at Upper Piqua represent America at its best.
From the excavations at 1740s Pickawillany, through the westward expansion, to the encampments of the Civil War, you can find it all at the Johnston Farm & Indian Agency.
Manhattan | Wikipedia audio article
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Manhattan (), often referred to locally as the City, is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, its cultural identifier, and its historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with its long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the setting for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals roughly US$1050 in current terms. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan approximated US$1,600 per square foot ($17,000/m2) as of 2018, with Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commanding the highest retail rents in the world, at US$3,000 per square foot ($32,000/m2) in 2017.Manhattan traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898.
New York County is the United States' second-smallest county by land area (larger only than Kalawao County, Hawaii), and is also the most densely populated U.S. county. It is also one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 1,664,727 living in a land area of 22.83 square miles (59.13 km2), or 72,918 residents per square mile (28,154/km2), higher than the density of any individual U.S. city. On business days, the influx of commuters increases this number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile (65,600/km2). Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York City's five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area.Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan are well known, as New York City received a record 62.8 million tourists in 2017, and Manhattan hosts three of the world's 10 most-visited tourist attractions in 2013: Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal. The borough hosts many prominent bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge; skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building; and parks, such as Central Park. Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese ...
Manhattan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:59 1 Etymology
00:06:16 2 History
00:06:25 2.1 Colonial era
00:10:42 2.2 American Revolution and the early United States
00:12:13 2.3 19th century
00:15:37 2.4 20th century
00:19:40 2.5 21st century
00:22:15 3 Geography
00:22:24 3.1 Components
00:23:26 3.1.1 Manhattan Island
00:24:53 3.1.2 Marble Hill
00:25:46 3.1.3 Smaller islands
00:26:19 3.2 Geology
00:26:28 3.2.1 Bedrock
00:27:35 3.2.2 Updated seismic analysis
00:28:12 3.3 Locations
00:28:21 3.3.1 Adjacent counties
00:28:53 3.3.2 National protected areas
00:29:31 3.3.3 Neighborhoods
00:33:07 3.4 Climate
00:35:55 3.5 Boroughscapes
00:36:04 4 Demographics
00:40:39 4.1 Religion
00:41:35 4.2 Languages
00:42:56 5 Landmarks and architecture
00:44:11 5.1 Architectural history
00:49:02 5.2 Parkland
00:51:23 6 Economy
00:52:38 6.1 Financial sector
00:54:27 6.2 Corporate sector
00:55:26 6.3 Technology sectors
00:58:23 6.4 Tourism
00:59:24 6.5 Real estate
01:01:11 6.6 Media
01:01:19 6.6.1 News
01:02:08 6.6.2 Television, radio, film
01:03:44 7 Education
01:08:32 8 Culture and contemporary life
01:15:01 9 Sports
01:19:40 10 Government
01:22:19 10.1 Politics
01:24:01 10.1.1 Representatives in the U.S. Congress
01:25:32 10.2 Federal offices
01:26:13 10.3 Crime and public safety
01:28:49 11 Housing
01:30:55 12 Infrastructure
01:31:04 12.1 Transportation
01:31:13 12.1.1 Public transportation
01:36:12 12.1.2 Major highways
01:36:38 12.1.3 Taxis
01:37:05 12.1.4 Bicycles
01:37:18 12.1.5 Streets and roads
01:41:32 12.1.6 River crossings
01:43:53 12.1.7 Heliports
01:44:47 12.2 Utilities
01:46:43 12.3 Health care
01:47:24 12.4 Water purity and availability
01:49:08 12.5 Address algorithm
01:49:34 13 See also
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Manhattan (), often referred to locally as the City, is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with its long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the setting for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals roughly US$1038 in current terms. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan approximated US$1,600 per square foot ($17,000/m2) as of 2018, with Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commanding the highest retail rents in the world, at US$3,000 per square foot ($32,000/m2) in 2017.Manhattan traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 16 ...
Mark Hanna | Wikipedia audio article
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Mark Hanna
00:02:23 1 Early life and business career
00:04:26 2 Civil War service
00:05:53 3 Post war
00:09:00 4 Aspiring kingmaker (1880–1888)
00:14:18 5 McKinley partisan (1888–96)
00:14:30 5.1 Early relationship
00:22:16 5.2 Preparing for a run
00:26:45 6 Campaign of 1896
00:26:55 6.1 Nominating McKinley
00:32:20 6.2 Currency question; Democratic nomination
00:35:29 6.3 General election campaign
00:44:22 7 Senator (1897–1904)
00:44:34 7.1 McKinley advisor (1897–1901)
00:44:46 7.1.1 Securing a Senate seat
00:51:02 7.1.2 Relationship with the President
00:54:17 7.1.3 Spanish–American War
00:59:17 7.1.4 Campaign of 1900
01:04:07 7.1.5 Assassination of McKinley
01:05:33 7.2 Roosevelt years and death (1901–04)
01:06:21 7.2.1 Panama Canal involvement
01:09:18 7.2.2 Re-election, rumors of a presidential run, and death
01:12:41 8 Views and legacy
01:16:15 9 Public image today
01:18:58 10 Electoral history
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna (September 24, 1837 – February 15, 1904) was an American businessman and Republican politician, who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee. A friend and political ally of President William McKinley, Hanna used his wealth and business skills to successfully manage McKinley's presidential campaigns in 1896 and 1900.
Hanna was born in New Lisbon (today Lisbon), Ohio, in 1837. His family moved to the growing city of Cleveland in his teenage years, where he attended high school with John D. Rockefeller. He was expelled from college, and entered the family mercantile business. He served briefly during the American Civil War and married Charlotte Rhodes; her father, Daniel Rhodes, took Hanna into his business after the war. Hanna was soon a partner in the firm, which grew to have interests in many areas, especially coal and iron. He was a millionaire by his 40th birthday, and turned his attention to politics.
Despite Hanna's efforts on his behalf, Ohio Senator John Sherman failed to gain the Republican nomination for president in 1884 and 1888. With Sherman becoming too old to be considered a contender, Hanna worked to elect McKinley. In 1895, Hanna left his business career to devote himself full-time to McKinley's campaign for president. Hanna paid all expenses to get McKinley the nomination the following year, although he was in any event the frontrunner. The Democrats nominated former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan, who ran on a bimetallism, or Free Silver, platform. Hanna's fundraising broke records, and once initial public enthusiasm for Bryan and his program subsided, McKinley was comfortably elected.
Declining a Cabinet position, Hanna secured appointment as senator from Ohio after Sherman was made Secretary of State; he was re-elected by the Ohio General Assembly in 1898 and 1904. After McKinley's assassination in 1901, Senator Hanna worked for the building of a canal in Panama, rather than elsewhere in Central America, as had previously been proposed. He died in 1904, and is remembered for his role in McKinley's election, thanks to savage cartoons by such illustrators as Homer Davenport, who lampooned him as McKinley's political master.
Sarah Vowell on Puritans (2 of 2)
Discussion between Lynn Neary and Sarah Vowell on the Puritans. Part 2 of 2.
St. Louis, Missouri | Wikipedia audio article
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St. Louis () is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The city had an estimated 2018 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Prior to European settlement, the area was a major regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. This city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical and research presence. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. The city is commonly identified with the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the city's downtown.
University Circle: Creating a Sense of Place (1 of 2)
This comprehensive look at the history and resurgence of Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood is a legacy film on the growth, public art and architecture of the cultural and educational center. Project Director, Executive Producer and Greater Clevelander Nina Freedlander Gibans and Videographer and Director Jesse Epstein involved some 80 participants and University Circle institutions to help tell the story of this unique area.