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Memorial Day weekend is shaping up to offer some of the best deals on new cars in years. The discounts vary widely by manufacturer and type of car – don’t expect too much off on a Toyota SUV ...
Rolling Thunder members being greeted by President Barack Obama in 2012. In 1987 Rolling Thunder made its first ride to the Vietnam War Memorial. [5]Ray Manzo, a former United States Marine Corps Corporal, [6] U.S. Army Sergeant Major John Holland (Ret.), Marine First Sergeant Walt Sides (Ret.) and Sergeant Ted Sampley (Ret.) are the four men that are credited with starting Rolling Thunder ...
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2] [3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...
The former Franklin County Veterans Memorial in 2005. The current museum occupies the same location. The site along the west side of the Scioto River near the Discovery Bridge on Broad Street was originally home to the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, [3] which originally opened in 1955 [4] and was demolished to make way for the museum in early 2015, [5] by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. [6]
In 1976, Shirley Muldowney became the first female to ever win a national event in the Top Fuel Dragster category. In 1982, the first ever all-female professional final took place between Shirley and Lucille Lee. For most of the Springnationals' history, the event was run in the month of June, often on or around Fathers Day weekend.
Battelle Memorial Institute (or simply Battelle) is a private nonprofit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The institute opened in 1929 but traces its origins to the 1923 will of Ohio industrialist Gordon Battelle which provided for its creation and his mother Annie Maude Norton Battelle who left ...
Six String Concerts to offer performance by Ruth Moody Band. Six String Concerts will host an appearance by the Ruth Moody Band at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Nicholson Auditorium at the King Arts Complex ...
The Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial was erected at Green Lawn Cemetery in 1891. [27] Cemetery officials first set aside a section (M) for military burials on June 10, 1862. [19] The Ex-Soldiers and Sailors' Association of Franklin County, a group of Civil War veterans, purchased four lots in section 28 in November 1881 for the interment of veterans.