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Discover Oklahoma: Partnerships help restore historic homes, sites

Edit The Oklahoman 29 May 2016

Since the passage of the National Preservation Act of 1966, the Oklahoma Historical Society has entered into federal, state and local partnerships to preserve historic sites across Oklahoma, including research projects to bring structures back to their original states and rehabilitation of structures for adaptive reuses ... Fort Gibson ... Overholser Mansion ... Architect Walton Everman designed and built the home, completing it in 1909 ... ....

Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama

Edit The Guardian 29 May 2016

Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency. by Jonathan Jones ... If the image ofMcLaurin – who was born in 1909, a time when the civil war was still a living memory for many Americans – visiting the first black US president does not communicate the soft power of the Obama age, consider some of Souza’s other pictures ... Above....

Phyllis M. Taylor to receive The Times-Picayune Loving Cup

Edit The Times Picayune 29 May 2016

For years, Phyllis M. Taylor has been a go-to philanthropist in New Orleans, a person on whom institutions have relied for big donations for projects in education, religion, the arts, the military and more ... She also is someone who takes a deep personal interest in the beneficiaries of the Patrick F ... For such service, Taylor has been chosen to receive The Times-Picayune Loving Cup for 2015 ... A.W ... No awards were presented in 1908 or 1909. Dr....

Sparta Rotterdam sign Sierra Leone-born Abdul Bai Kamara

Edit Football Sierra Leone 28 May 2016

Newly promoted Dutch Eredivisie side, Sparta Rotterdam have confirmed that Sierra Leone youngster Abdul Bai Kamara has joined the club on a two-year deal with an option for one additional year ... “I have to take this step at this age.” He said ... Sparta has won six national titles (1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915 and 1959) and three national cups (1958, 1962 and 1966) ... ....

A closer look at the Yankees' new helmets

Edit NJ dot com 28 May 2016

Team makes noticeable change  . ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Helmets matter ... See the video above for a closer look at the helmets ... A closer look at the #Yankees' new helmets. pic.twitter.com/C1rY9W7Vl2 -- Brendan Kuty (@BrendanKutyNJ) May 28, 2016 ... They've had the same logo -- the interlocking NY -- since 1909, and the same hat -- navy blue with the logo -- since 1923 ... "I like it ... ....

US wants to help endangered Yellowstone fish with $57M dam

Edit The Oklahoman 28 May 2016

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials say building a $57 million concrete dam and fish bypass channel along Montana's Yellowstone River offers the cheapest way to help an endangered species that dates to the time of dinosaurs. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department are proposing the irrigation dam on the lower Yellowstone near the North Dakota border ... The weir was built in 1909 ... ___ ... ....

On this day: Swiss duo become first men to reach stratosphere

Edit Scotsman 28 May 2016

Events, birthdays and anniversaries on 28 May. 585 BC. A timely total eclipse of the sun decided the Battle of Mesopotamia between Medes (now Iran) and Lydians (now Turkey). The blackened sky was read as a sign of God's anger and an immediate truce was called. 1841 ... 1887 ... 1907. The first Isle of Man motor cycle TT race was held. 1931 ... 1934 ... A youth was jailed for 12 years for rape at the end of Scotland's first private prosecution since 1909 ... ....

Review: SFMoMA’s Expansion Sets a New Standard for Museums

Edit The Miami Herald 28 May 2016

Mainly, it reminds us that the horizontal and vertical grids of the city can be disrupted without being destroyed ... “Bushbaby,” a recent masterpiece by Johns; Krasner’s “Four” (1957), modest in size but big in its compressed, tumbling forms; an amazing trove of drawings by Joseph Beuys; and a cast of Picasso’s landmark bronze, “Head of a Woman,” from 1909, his first attempt at Cubism in three dimensions ... I’m sure Mr ... ....

The Long Weekend review – life in the English country house between the wars

Edit The Guardian 28 May 2016

Swans in the moat, inglenooks and romantic conservatism … but Adrian Tinswood’s hugely enjoyable, unsnobbish book uncovers another, more subversive, side to the story ... In short, it is life itself, fretful and funny, deft and daft ... Herstmonceux, Hever, Saltwood, Allington and Leeds ... You could – still can, in fact – see evidence of that pedigree in places such as Rodmarton Manor in Gloucestershire, where restoration began in 1909 ... Twitter....

PREVIEW: Rabbitohs v The Bye (South Sydney Rabbitohs)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016

The rivalry stems back to the 1909 Grand Final, when Balmain refused to play South Sydney in the decider of that year ... The club is privately said to be fuming at their omission from the Rabbitohs' Book of Feuds, despite claiming that both sides have enjoyed a fervent rivalry since that 1909 Grand Final....

(Source ... It is the first time engineers from different organizations have won the award sponsored by BorgWarner and presented by the Indiana Section of SAE International ... The award memorializes Louis Schwitzer, who won the first auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in 1909 and designed the 'Marmon Yellow Jacket' engine that powered the Marmon Wasp to victory at the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 ... (noodl. 33834984) ....

Golden State Beats Oklahoma City To Force A Game 7

A judge ordered the release of hundreds of pages of Trump University documents

Bernie Sanders Just Warned Hillary Clinton Not to Go Wrong on Her VP Pick

Police Recommend Indicting Netanyahu's Wife

Chinese Laundry Detergent Maker Offers ‘Apology’ Over Racist Ad

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