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Clarkson University Senior Leah Granger Receives Levinus Clarkson Award (Clarkson University)

Edit Public Technologies 08 May 2016
(Source. Clarkson University). Graduating senior Leah C. Granger of Flowery Branch, Ga., received the Levinus Clarkson Award during Clarkson University's 123rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 7 ... The Levinus Clarkson Award was established by University founders Elizabeth and Frederica Clarkson in memory of their brother, Levinus, and was first awarded in 1909 ... In terms of extra-curricular activities, Granger loves to dance ... (noodl....

In New Orleans, the ghosts are like family

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 08 May 2016
It’s a generally accepted fact that New Orleans is unlike any other American city ... The elegant facades belie the secrets within their walls and the skeletons noisily clanking in their closets ... The virtuous were Ursuline nuns from the convent across the street, who occupied an earlier dwelling on the site, and the vile were members of the city’s Mafioso — three of whom were shot to death on the premises in 1909 ... Grima ... ....

America's 'Violent Little Partisans'

Edit The Atlantic 08 May 2016
Democrats rally in New York's Union Square in support of Grover Cleveland in 1884 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics, especially among the young ... There was one bright spot ... By 1909 Jane Addams, the famed social activist, wrote that public life “no longer stirs the blood of the American youth.” Young people had so many other options, from high school to Hollywood, to help them grow up....

Judge Woodrow Wilson’s Racism by the Standards of His Time

Edit Newsweek 08 May 2016
This article appeared on the London School of Economics site ... Try Newsweek. Subscription offers ... In particular, Wilson segregated, for the first time, the federal civil service ... Such an approach would be preferable to removing his name ... Reuters ... As Roosevelt’s term came to a close in 1909, 2,785 African-Americans worked in federal offices in Washington, D.C., representing 11 percent of the capital city’s federal civil service ... ....

Bristol Channel's historical pilot cutters to race off Mumbles

Edit BBC News 07 May 2016
Five historical vessels are set to go head to head in races off Swansea. Bristol Channel pilot cutters, all built between 1904 and 1909, will be taking part in a regatta off Mumbles on Saturday and Sunday ... ....

Gurudev's connect with Sangam city

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Allahabad ... In 1909, he held meetings at Anglo Bengali Intermediate College and also took its principal Nepal Rai to Vishwa Bharti university, while he stayed at litterateur Nagendra Nath Gupt's place. RELATED. From around the web....

SRDP has been designed to fail !

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
By Karuna Gopal. One doesn't have to gaze into a crystal ball to see the future of the Strategic Road Development Project (SRDP) of Hyderabad. It will surely fail ... Let me start with the government order G.O.RT ... Obviously not. Simply put -if your energy efficient `Hybrid' vehicle has no fuel due to lack of availability of the same, do you carpool or do you take recourse to your fuelguzzling, smoke-spewing 1909 Ford Model T? ... ....

Planning, Development & Community Services Decisions in Brief (City of Saskatoon)

Edit Public Technologies 07 May 2016
(Source. City of Saskatoon). 6.2.1 Naming Advisory Committee Report - Names Master List and Neighbourhood Naming. Decision ... 'Adams', 'Robertson', and 'Wilson' ... Background. *According to the Naming Policy, all requests for naming of roadways from the Names Master List will be selected or endorsed by His Worship the Mayor ... Decision ... *Built in 1909, the Tupper House is a modest one-and-three-quarter-storey dwelling in the Nutana neighbourhood....

'Compared to IRA massacres N-word row can seem trivial'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 May 2016
It was more than just another public gaffe. The leader of one of Ireland's biggest political parties uses the N-word and the incident attracts international headlines. His colleagues quietly cringe at the very thought of the word being uttered as the news spreads ... One of the main campaign groups for African-Americans in the United States is the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), founded in 1909....

Jehovah’s Witnesses Sell Their Longest-Held Property in Historic Brooklyn Heights (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
Beecher shortly before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.' In May 1909, the Witnesses purchased the brownstone and subsequently obtained several adjoining properties to create the ten-story building that spans an entire city block today ... As far back as 1909, it has primarily served as living quarters for our world headquarters staff....

'Here Lies': When your friend is welcome to your worldly goods and wants more

Edit The Examiner 06 May 2016
In this short story, Old Shep has become a permanent guest of his old school friend, Chauncey. Neither man speaks much ... Old Shep whittles. Chauncey smokes his pipe. As a Communist, Chauncey makes it a habit to share his worldly goods with any man who asks ... H. W. Guernsey is a pseudonym for artist and writer Howard Elmer Wandrei (1909-1956), whose brother Donald Wandrei was also a fantasy writer. ....

Dispute emerges over ownership of wall that collapsed by Mulberry Street Bridge in Harrisburg

Edit Penn Live 06 May 2016
HARRISBURG- PennDot owns the historic Mulberry Street Bridge in Harrisburg, but who owns the adjacent wall that collapsed Thursday?. That remained in dispute Friday, with both PennDot and The McFarland apartment building denying ownership ... The 18-span Mulberry Street Bridge, originally built in 1909, connects the Allison Hill section of Harrisburg to the Harrisburg Transportation Center and the downtown area ... ....

Geek culture: The Flying Dutchman explained

Edit The Examiner 06 May 2016
Science has always been considered geek territory, but that doesn’t mean it's not interesting to non-geeks. Some of the strangest and most mysterious things on the planet can be explained by the miracle of science. That brings us to the science behind mirages ... the Flying Dutchman ... In the Weather section of the book, mirages are explained ... The resulting distortion can look very real ... The book gives the example of a famous mirage from 1909 ... ....
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