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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorestown%2C%20Indiana
Moorestown, Indiana
Introduction
Moorestown is an unincorporated community in Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
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projected-00307375-001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorestown%2C%20Indiana
Moorestown, Indiana
Geography
Moorestown is an unincorporated community in Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
Moorestown is located at .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorestown%2C%20Indiana
Moorestown, Indiana
References
Moorestown is an unincorporated community in Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
Category:Unincorporated communities in Lawrence County, Indiana Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo%20%28disambiguation%29
Sligo (disambiguation)
Introduction
Sligo is a town in Ireland. Sligo may also refer to:
[]
[ "Introduction" ]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo%20%28disambiguation%29
Sligo (disambiguation)
Ireland
Sligo is a town in Ireland. Sligo may also refer to:
County Sligo, a county of Ireland
[]
[ "Ireland" ]
[]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo%20%28disambiguation%29
Sligo (disambiguation)
Parliamentary constituencies
Sligo is a town in Ireland. Sligo may also refer to:
Sligo County (Parliament of Ireland constituency), before 1801 Sligo Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency), before 1801 Sligo County (UK Parliament constituency), 1801–1870 Sligo Borough (UK Parliament constituency), 1801–1870 Sligo County (UK Parliament constituency), 1870–1885 North Sligo (UK Parliament consti...
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[ "Ireland", "Parliamentary constituencies" ]
[]
projected-00307382-003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo%20%28disambiguation%29
Sligo (disambiguation)
United States
Sligo is a town in Ireland. Sligo may also refer to:
Sligo, Maryland, an area in Montgomery County Sligo Creek, a tributary of the Anacostia River in Maryland Sligo, Missouri, a village in Dent County Sligo, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in Currituck County Sligo, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Clinton County Sligo, Pennsylvania, a borough in Clarion ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo%20%28disambiguation%29
Sligo (disambiguation)
Other uses
Sligo is a town in Ireland. Sligo may also refer to:
Sligo, a community in Caledon, Ontario
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[ "Other uses" ]
[]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo%20%28disambiguation%29
Sligo (disambiguation)
See also
Sligo is a town in Ireland. Sligo may also refer to:
Siligo, a municipality in Sardinia
[]
[ "See also" ]
[]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Dempsey
Sandra Dempsey
Introduction
Sandra Dempsey (born 1956) is a Canadian playwright. Her play D'Arcy was a semi-finalist for Theatre Ontario's Playwrights Showcase in 1980. Her produced and published plays include Armagideon, Flying To Glory, Enigma, Wings To Victory, Barbie & Ken, Casualties, Clap Trap, Legacy, Orders, Rosa's Lament, Pierre La, Air ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Introduction
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
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projected-00307384-001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Kanienʼkehá:ka communities
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Members of the Kanienʼkehá:ka people now live in settlements in northern New York State and southeastern Canada. Many Kanienʼkehá:ka communities have two sets of chiefs, who are in some sense competing governmental rivals. One group are the hereditary chiefs nominated by Clan Mother matriarchs in the traditional Kani...
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projected-00307384-003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
First contact with European settlers
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
In the Mohawk language, the Mohawk people call themselves the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka ("people of the flint"). The Kanienʼkehá꞉ka became wealthy traders as other nations in their confederacy needed their flint for tool making. Their Algonquian-speaking neighbors (and competitors), the people of Muh-heck Haeek Ing ("food area pl...
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projected-00307384-004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Beaver Wars
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
In the seventeenth century, the Mohawks encountered both the Dutch, who went up the Hudson River and established a trading post in 1614 at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, and the French, who came south into their territory from New France (present-day Quebec). The Dutch were primarily merchants and the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
American Revolutionary War
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
During the second and third quarters of the 18th century, most of the Mohawks in the Province of New York lived along the Mohawk River at Canajoharie. A few lived at Schoharie, and the rest lived about 30 miles downstream at the Tionondorage Castle, also called Fort Hunter. These two major settlements were traditional...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
After the Revolution
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
After the American victory, the British ceded their claim to land in the colonies, and the Americans forced their allies, the Mohawks and others, to give up their territories in New York. Most of the Mohawks migrated to Canada, where the Crown gave them some land in compensation. The Mohawks at the Upper Castle fled to...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
20th century to present
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
In 1971 the Mohawk Warrior Society, also Rotisken’rakéhte in the Mohawk language, was founded in Kahnawake. The duties of the Warrior Society are to use roadblocks, evictions, and occupations to gain rights for their people, and these tactics are also used among the warriors to protect the environment from pollution. T...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Mohawk ironworkers in New York
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Mohawks came from Kahnawake and other reserves to work in the construction industry in New York City in the early through the mid-20th century. They had also worked in construction in Quebec. The men were ironworkers who helped build bridges and skyscrapers, and who were called skywalkers because of their seeming fearl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Casinos
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Both the elected chiefs and the Warrior Society have encouraged gambling as a means of ensuring tribal self-sufficiency on the various reserves or Indian reservations. Traditional chiefs have tended to oppose gaming on moral grounds and out of fear of corruption and organized crime. Such disputes have also been associa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Religion
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Traditional Mohawk religion is mostly Animist. "Much of the religion is based on a primordial conflict between good and evil." Many Mohawk continue to follow the Longhouse Religion. In 1632 a band of Jesuit missionaries now known as the Canadian Martyrs led by Isaac Jogues was captured by a party of Mohawks and broug...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Traditional dress
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Historically, the traditional hairstyle of Mohawk men, and many men of the other groups of the Iroquois Confederacy, was to remove most of the hair from the head by plucking (not shaving) tuft by tuft of hair until all that was left was a smaller section, that was worn in a variety of styles, which could vary by commun...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Marriage
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
The Mohawk Nation people have a matrilineal kinship system, with descent and inheritance passed through the female line. Today, the marriage ceremony may follow that of the old tradition or incorporate newer elements, but is still used by many Mohawk Nation marrying couples. Some couples choose to marry in the European...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Communities
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Replicas of seventeenth-century longhouses have been built at landmarks and tourist villages, such as Kanata Village, Brantford, Ontario, and Akwesasne's "Tsiionhiakwatha" interpretation village. Other Mohawk Nation Longhouses are found on the Mohawk territory reserves that hold the Mohawk law recitations, ceremonial r...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Notable Mohawk
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Tammy Beauvais, Mohawk fashion designer Beth Brant, Mohawk writer and poet Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader, British officer Molly Brant, Mohawk leader, sister of Joseph Brant Joseph Tehawehron David, Mohawk artist Esther Louise Georgette Deer, Mohawk dancer and singer Tracey Deer, Mohawk filmmaker John Deseronto, Mo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Iroquoian peoples
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Cherokee Chonnonton Erie Huron Iroquois Meherrin Petun Conestoga (Susquehannock) Mingo Wenro Laurentian Nottoway St. Lawrence Iroquoians Meherrin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
See also
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Iroquois Confederacy Iroquoian languages Kahnawake surnames Mohawk language Native Americans in the United States Native American tribe Oka Crisis The Flying Head
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
Notes
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
Mohawk skyscraper builders and construction workers in New York City?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk%20people
Mohawk people
References
The Mohawk people () are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original ...
In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People, ed. Dean R. Snow, Charles T. Gehring, William A. Starna, Syracuse University Press, 1996
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback%20Party
Greenback Party
Introduction
The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback%20Party
Greenback Party
Background
The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before ...
The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 greatly affected the financial system of the United States of America, creating vast new war-related expenditures while disrupting the flow of tax revenue from the Southern United States, organized as the Confederate States of America. The act of Southern secession prompted a brie...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback%20Party
Greenback Party
1873 economic crisis and response
The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before ...
The late 1860s and early 1870s were a time of frenetic railway construction and associated land speculation. Rather than a managed system of national railroad construction through public works or leaving the construction of lines strictly to market forces, Congress attempted to spur the growth of the industry through t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback%20Party
Greenback Party
Establishment
The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before ...
The Greenback Party emerged gradually from the consolidation of like-minded state-level political organizations of differing names. According to historian Paul Kleppner, the origin of the Greenback Party is to be found in the state of Indiana, where early in 1873 a group of reform-minded farmers and political activist...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4gar%20the%20Horrible
Hägar the Horrible
Introduction
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4gar%20the%20Horrible
Hägar the Horrible
Overview
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
"Hagar the Terrible" was the nickname given to the late Dik Browne by his sons; Browne adapted the name to Hägar the Horrible for the purposes of alliteration. After his death, Dik Browne's sons changed the title of the strip to Dik Browne's Hägar the Horrible in tribute. The name is pronounced Hay-gar according to Chr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4gar%20the%20Horrible
Hägar the Horrible
Setting and format
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
The strip is set in the Middle Ages in an unnamed coastal village somewhere in Norway. Hägar's Norwegian lineage was revealed at least once in a daily strip (July 18, 1984). Hamlet asks Hägar if he can tell people they're Norwegian. Hägar replies that it isn't necessary: "It might sound like bragging." Although anachr...
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Hägar the Horrible
Illustration style
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
Hägar the Horrible uses a clear, sparse editorial-style line drawing, with minimal foreground or background detail, shading or embellishment. Observers argue this is likely derived from Dik Browne's experience as a courtroom illustrator and illustrator of maps of important World War II battles prior to 1942, plus his e...
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Hägar the Horrible
Cast of characters
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
Hägar the Horrible: the slovenly, overfed Viking protagonist. Hägar is both a fierce warrior and a family man—with the same problems as your average modern suburbanite. One running gag involves his exceptionally poor personal hygiene; for example, his annual bath (July 14) is a time of national rejoicing and celebratio...
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Hägar the Horrible
Licensing
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
For a brief time in the 1970s, the strip had its own brand of sponsored soda, "Sunday Funnies Cola", which would have Hägar strips on the side of the can. It was considered a marketing failure. Nearly two decades later, from 1989 to 1991, Hägar would once again be used in a soft drink endorsement in a series of radio a...
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Hägar the Horrible
TV guest appearances
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
Hagar made his first animated appearance in a brief sketch paired with an interview of creator Dik Browne in the special The Fantastic Funnies broadcast on CBS May 15, 1980. Scott Beach (uncredited) provided the voice while the animation was produced by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson. A live action Hagar sketch was ...
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Hägar the Horrible
TV special
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
In 1989, an animated television special was aired, Hägar the Horrible: Hägar Knows Best produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired on CBS, based on the very first plotline when the strip began in 1973. Hägar returns home from battle after two years—and faces a major culture shock. His son Hamlet has bilged out of the Viking A...
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Hägar the Horrible
Movie project
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
Variety reported in 2003 that Abandon Pictures had acquired the film rights to the comic strip and planned a live-action theatrical feature based on the character. According to emails leaked in the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, a film adaptation was in development in 2013 and 2014 at Sony Pictures Animation. In lat...
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Hägar the Horrible
Animated sitcom
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
On November 10, 2020, it was announced a CGI animated series co-produced by King Features and The Jim Henson Company is currently in the works. The series will be animated by Henson Digital Puppetry Studio.
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Hägar the Horrible
Book collections and reprints
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
All titles are mass-market paperbacks by Dik Browne, unless otherwise noted. Hägar the Horrible #1 (1974) Tempo Hägar the Horrible #2 (1975) Tempo Hägar the Horrible on the Loose (#3) (1975) Tempo Hägar the Horrible: The Big Bands Are Back! (trade paperback, 1975) Grosset & Dunlap The Wit and Wisdom of Hägar the Horrib...
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Hägar the Horrible
Theme park
Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973 and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 (and subsequent death), his son Chris Browne has continued the stri...
Hägar the Horrible is featured in the Universal Studios Florida theme park Islands of Adventure, where Hägar is seen on a boat on top of Toon Extra in Toon Lagoon.
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Music of Michigan
Introduction
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
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Music of Michigan
Classical
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Classical music and the arts in Michigan have long been supported by the auto industry and the auto magnates who became rich from it. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1914, is the premier orchestra in the state and performs at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. The Symphony runs the Detroit Youth Symphony, the Elaine...
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Music of Michigan
Folk
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Folklorist Ivan Walton, who taught at the University of Michigan, collected the songs of Great Lakes sailors. Duane Starcher recorded Woods and Water: Folk songs from Michigan History, released in 1965 on Western Michigan University Aural Press. The Ark is a folk music venue in Ann Arbor in existence since 1965.
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Music of Michigan
Blues
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Detroit has had a thriving blues scene (see Detroit blues) for some time, including most famously John Lee Hooker.
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Music of Michigan
Jazz
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Jazz artists born in Detroit include pianists Tommy Flanagan, Hugh Lawson, Barry Harris, Roland Hanna, Kenny Cox, pianist and composer Alice Coltrane, pianist and vibraphonist Terry Pollard, drummers Louis Hayes, Eddie Locke, Oliver Jackson, Roy Brooks, Frank Gant, Gerald Cleaver, Pheeroan akLaff, vibraphonist Milt Jac...
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Music of Michigan
R&B/Soul
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Fortune Records was a pre-Motown, Detroit-based, independent record label that specialized in soul, doo-wop, rockabilly, gospel, blues and rock and roll. It was owned by Jack and Devora Brown, a husband and wife business team who would operate the label with help from their son, Sheldon Brown. The label's biggest star...
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Music of Michigan
Pop
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
1960s pop-rock singer Del Shannon came from Coopersville, near Grand Rapids. He had the #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Runaway" in 1961. Singer Madonna, born Madonna Ciccone in Bay City, later living in the Rochester area (and attending the University of Michigan), rose to be considered the "Queen of Pop" by many. Her lon...
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Music of Michigan
Rock
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Hank Ballard was an early rock and roll artist born in Detroit. Detroit was a center of the 1960s garage rock scene, with such legendary bands as The Amboy Dukes (featuring guitarist Ted Nugent), The Bob Seger System, ? and the Mysterians, the MC5, and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels ("Devil With a Blue Dress On")....
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Music of Michigan
Indie
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Jad Fair was born in Coldwater. His Name is Alive and Thunderbirds Are Now! are from Livonia. Windy & Carl are from Dearborn. Wolf Eyes formed in Ann Arbor. Magdelene Rose was born in Flint. Darcy Moran and her live band are all from Metro-Detroit. Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens was born in...
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Music of Michigan
Hardcore
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
In the 1970s, Detroit had a small new wave scene that included The Romantics ("What I Like About You") and Sonic's Rendezvous Band, who played at a converted supper club called Bookie's. The hardcore punk scene had arrived by 1981, and included Detroit bands Negative Approach and Degenerates, as well as Necros, Violen...
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Music of Michigan
Electronic Music
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Techno was primarily developed in basement studios by "The Belleville Three", a cadre of African-American men, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, and Juan Atkins, who were attending college at the time near Detroit. Influenced heavily by George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Germany's Kraftwerk, and the house music comin...
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Music of Michigan
Hip hop
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In the mid-late 1980s, Awesome Dre and the Hard Core Committee, along with Prince Vince and the Hip Hop Force, were among the first wave of Detroit artists, with Awesome Dre becoming the first to go national with videos receiving regular spins on Yo! MTV Raps. Also in the mid-late 1980s came others like D the Great, De...
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Music of Michigan
See also
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Hitsville U.S.A. Motown museum in Detroit List of songs about Detroit The 100 greatest Detroit songs ever! The Detroit Dish:: motorcityrocks.com MichiganMusicHub.com : Sharing The Music of Michigan with The World!
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Music of Michigan
References
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has prod...
Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Los Angeles, CA: Feral House. . Category:Michigan culture Michigan
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Hagar
Introduction
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
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Hagar
Abraham and Hagar
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian slave of Sarai, Abram's wife (whose names later became Sarah and Abraham). Sarai had been barren for a long time and sought a way to fulfill God's promise that Abram would be father of many nations, especially since they had grown old, so she offered Hagar to Abram to be h...
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Hagar
Hagar cast out
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Later, Sarah gave birth to Isaac, and the tension between the women returned. At a celebration after Isaac was weaned, Sarah found the teenage Ishmael mocking her son (Genesis 21:9). She was so upset by the idea of Ishmael inheriting their wealth, that she demanded that Abraham send Hagar and her son away. She declared...
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Hagar
Rabbinical commentary
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Rabbinical commentators asserted that Hagar was Pharaoh's daughter. The midrash Genesis Rabbah states it was when Sarah was in Pharaoh's harem that he gave her his daughter Hagar as servant, saying: "It is better that my daughter should be a servant in the house of such a woman than mistress in another house". Sarah t...
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Hagar
Christianity
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
In the New Testament, Paul the Apostle made Hagar's experience an allegory of the difference between law and grace in his Epistle to the Galatians. Paul links the laws of the Torah, given on Mount Sinai, to the bondage of the Israelite people, implying that it was signified by Hagar's condition as a bondswoman, while t...
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Hagar
Islam
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Hājar or Haajar () is the Arabic name used to identify the wife of Abraham (Arabic: ) and the mother of Ishmael (Arabic: ). Although not mentioned by name in the Qur'an, she is referenced and alluded to via the story of her husband. She is a revered woman in the Islamic faith. According to Muslim belief, she was the E...
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Hagar
Baháʼí traditions
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
According to the Baháʼí Faith, the Báb was a descendant of Abraham and Hagar, and God made a promise to spread Abraham's seed. The Baháʼí Publishing House released a text on the wives and concubines of Abraham and traces their lineage to five different religions.
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Hagar
Arts and literature
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Many artists have painted scenes from the story of Hagar and Ismael in the desert, including Pieter Lastman, Gustave Doré, Frederick Goodall and James Eckford Lauder. William Shakespeare refers to Hagar in The Merchant of Venice Act II Scene 5 line 40 when Shylock says "What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?" T...
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Hagar
Israel
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Since the 1970s, the custom has arisen of giving the name "Hagar" to newborn female babies. The giving of this name is often taken as a controversial political act, marking the parents as being supporters of reconciliation with the Palestinians and the Arab world, and is frowned upon by many, including nationalists and...
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Hagar
African Americans
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Several black American feminists have written about Hagar, comparing her story to those of slaves in American history. Wilma Bailey, in an article entitled "Hagar: A Model for an Anabaptist Feminist", refers to her as a "maidservant" and "slave". She sees Hagar as a model of "power, skills, strength and drive". In the ...
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Hagar
See also
Hagar is a biblical woman. According to the Book of Genesis, she was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, ...
Abraham and Hagar Abraham and Ishmael Lech-Lecha Vayera Hagar in Islam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakton
Oakton
Introduction
Oakton may refer to:
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[ "Introduction" ]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakton
Oakton
United States
Oakton may refer to:
Oakton, Georgia , a place in Georgia Oakton, Kentucky, on Kentucky Route 58 Oakton, Missouri Oakton, Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakton
Oakton
Fictional
Oakton may refer to:
Oakton, the fictional setting of The Nut Job
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[]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakton
Oakton
Other uses
Oakton may refer to:
Eric Oakton (1906–1981), English footballer Oakton Community College, Des Plaines and Skokie, Illinois Oakton High School, Fairfax County, Virginia
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[ "Other uses" ]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakton
Oakton
See also
Oakton may refer to:
Oakton–Skokie station, Skokie, Illiniois Oaktown (disambiguation)
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[ "See also" ]
[]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Introduction
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
History
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
In the late nineteenth century, several Texas-based groups (including the Texas Press Women's Association, the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, the Grange, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union) began advocating for the creation of a state-supported women's college focused on a practical education, including dom...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Denton Campus
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
The university's flagship Denton campus consists of 270 acres in Denton, Texas, located approximately forty miles northwest of Dallas. Upon the university's founding, the Old Main Building was constructed in 1902 and housed all of the school's academic programs and students. The first dormitory opened in 1907, and a se...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Dallas Campus
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
The T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences in Dallas is based in the Southwestern Medical District, which also houses Parkland Hospital, Children's Medical Center Dallas, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The nursing program began on what is now the Dallas campus. It additionally houses pr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Houston Campus
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
The Houston Campus is located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center district, near the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children's Hospital. It contains TWU's Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Nutrition & Food Sciences, Health Care Administration, and MBA programs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Academics
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
With more than 500 full-time faculty, approximately 75% of classes have 30 students or fewer. Nationally recognized programs include those in nursing, multicultural and gender studies, library science and information studies, and occupational therapy. The university is divided into six colleges: College of Arts and S...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
The Woman's Collection
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
The second floor of Blagg-Huey Library houses the Woman's Collection. Established in 1932 at the suggestion of then-college president L.H. Hubbard, the collection is one of the largest and oldest collections of materials about American women's history in the United States. In 1979, it was designated by the Texas legisl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Centers
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
TWU has multiple centers and institutes specifically focusing on women. The Institute for Women's Health was launched in 1993 originally as the Center for Research on Women's Health. It focuses on the health of women and girls in Texas. It achieves this through partnerships with other academic institutions, government...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Little Chapel in the Woods
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Built in 1939 and dedicated by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the Little Chapel in the Woods has been named one of Texas' most outstanding architectural achievements by the Texas Society of Architects. Designed by leading American architect and Denton resident O'Neill Ford, recruits from the National Youth Administratio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Texas Women's Hall of Fame
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Hubbard Hall, the former central dining facility, housed the Texas Women's Hall of Fame from 1984 until 2018. It is now on the 2nd floor of the Blagg-Huey Library. Created in 1984 by the Texas Governor's Commission on Women, the state-established exhibit honors Texas women who make significant public contributions to t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Established in 1940, the historic costume collection contains original dresses predating Texas statehood by First Ladies of the Texas Republic, as well as those worn by Texas First Ladies to the Governor's Inaugural Ball and gowns donated by Presidential First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Bush, a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Athletics
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
The university originally offered sports through the Women's Recreation Association, joining the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in 1969 in seven sports: basketball, volleyball, field hockey, tennis, badminton, swimming, and track. Known as the "Tessies," the school won its first national title at the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Awards
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Established in 1972, the TWU Gymnastics squad has won the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships with a record eleven team championships since 1993, with the most recent championships coming back to back in 2017 and 2018. In 2014, the athletics program was awarded the inaugural Lone Star Conference Women's A...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
The Lasso and The Daedalian
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
In print since 1914, The Lasso is a student-produced weekly newspaper. The Lasso began as a daily publication and switched to a weekly format in the 1990s, adding an online version in 2003. Notable past editors include Pulitzer Prize-winner Caro Crawford Brown; Grace Robinson New, the first female television news repor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Sororities
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Approximately three percent of undergraduate women are active in a sorority on campus. Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Gamma Delta Sigma Sigma Sigma Alpha Kappa Alpha Delta Sigma Theta Zeta Phi Beta Sigma Gamma Rho Sigma Lambda Gamma Sigma Lambda Alpha Sigma Alpha Iota Sigma Phi Lambda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Fraternities
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Approximately two percent of undergraduate men are active in a fraternity on campus. Kappa Sigma Phi Beta Sigma Phi Iota Alpha Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Notable alumni
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Caro Crawford Brown (B.A. 1925), winner of Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1955 for the Alice (Texas) Daily Echo Vara Martin Daniel - American educator and former First Lady of Guam Margaret Virginia (Margo) Jones (B.A. 1932) and (M.A. 1933), pioneer in the American Resident Theater Movement and author of Theate...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
Notable faculty
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Mary Eleanor Brackenridge (1837–1924), founding university regent, suffragist, and community organizer Carlotta Corpron (1901–1988), professor of photography, design, and art history Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), professor and Dean of the College of Household Arts and Sciences; noted chemist and nutritionist a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Woman%27s%20University
Texas Woman's University
See also
Texas Woman's University (TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part o...
Little Chapel in the Woods Texas Women's Hall of Fame Pioneer Woman (Friedlander)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWU
TWU
Introduction
TWU may refer to: Telecommunications Workers Union, Canada Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, US Texas Woman's University, Denton, US Tin Wu stop, Hong Kong - MTR station code TWU Transport Workers Union of America Transport Workers Union of Australia TransWorld University, Yunlin, Taiwan Trinity Western Un...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Illinois
Music of Illinois
Introduction
Illinois, including Chicago has a wide musical heritage. Chicago is most famously associated with the development of electric (or Chicago-style) blues music. Chicago was also a center of development for early jazz and later for house music, and includes a vibrant hip hop scene and R&B. Chicago also has a thriving rock ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Illinois
Music of Illinois
Blues
Illinois, including Chicago has a wide musical heritage. Chicago is most famously associated with the development of electric (or Chicago-style) blues music. Chicago was also a center of development for early jazz and later for house music, and includes a vibrant hip hop scene and R&B. Chicago also has a thriving rock ...
Chicago blues music was developed as black musicians influenced by Delta blues joined the post-World War II migration to the burgeoning industrial city from the deep south, and, seeking a way to be heard in the raucous clubs, turned to electric guitar and other forms of amplified music. The result was a tough, gritty ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Illinois
Music of Illinois
Jazz
Illinois, including Chicago has a wide musical heritage. Chicago is most famously associated with the development of electric (or Chicago-style) blues music. Chicago was also a center of development for early jazz and later for house music, and includes a vibrant hip hop scene and R&B. Chicago also has a thriving rock ...
Chicago was the first important center of jazz as it left the city of its birth, New Orleans, Louisiana. The name jazz (and its early variations jass or jas) may have first been applied to the music in Chicago in the 1910s, as such hot New Orleans bands as Tom Brown's made a hit up north. New Orleans pioneers togethe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Illinois
Music of Illinois
Folk music
Illinois, including Chicago has a wide musical heritage. Chicago is most famously associated with the development of electric (or Chicago-style) blues music. Chicago was also a center of development for early jazz and later for house music, and includes a vibrant hip hop scene and R&B. Chicago also has a thriving rock ...
Burl Ives, hailing from downstate Illinois (and attended Eastern Illinois University), helped popularize folk music, with releases beginning in the 1940s (One of his most enduring hits is "A Holly Jolly Christmas" from 1964). Chicago was a focal point for the folk music boom of the 1960s and early 1970s. A center of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Illinois
Music of Illinois
Country music
Illinois, including Chicago has a wide musical heritage. Chicago is most famously associated with the development of electric (or Chicago-style) blues music. Chicago was also a center of development for early jazz and later for house music, and includes a vibrant hip hop scene and R&B. Chicago also has a thriving rock ...
Brett Eldredge is from Paris Illinois. Alison Krauss was part of the revival of bluegrass music in the late 1990s. She grew up in the central Illinois city of Champaign. She had a number three album with Union Station in 2011 called Paper Airplane. Suzy Bogguss from Aledo in western Illinois had a number of country hit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Illinois
Music of Illinois
Rock and roll
Illinois, including Chicago has a wide musical heritage. Chicago is most famously associated with the development of electric (or Chicago-style) blues music. Chicago was also a center of development for early jazz and later for house music, and includes a vibrant hip hop scene and R&B. Chicago also has a thriving rock ...
Singer Sam Cooke was raised in Chicago (and had a number-one Top 100 hit with "You Send Me" in 1957), and Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, Minnie Riperton (who had a number-one Hot 100 hit with "Lovin' You" in 1975), and singer-musician Curtis Mayfield were born there. Earth, Wind & Fire had a number-one Billboard H...
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