The Compassion Bench
Submitted by @jqmcd
Eddie G. Robinson
Beginning in 1941, Eddie G. Robinson spent fifty- six years as head football coach at Grambling State University. He sent more than 200 players into the pros -four of which have been inducted into...
- louisiana
- african american
- football
Charles P. Adams - "The Founder"
In 1901, the North Louisiana Colored Farmers Relief Association asked the Tuskegee Institute's Booker T. Washington to find a man capable of setting up an agricultural and industrial school in...
- louisiana
- african american
- education
Conrad "Hutch" Hutchinson, Jr - (October 25, 1919 - March 5, 1996)
Conrad Hutchinson Jr. arrived in Grambling in 1952 and had a plan to make the Grambling College Marching Band the "Best Band In the Land". It didn't happen overnight and it certainly wasn't easy,...
- louisiana
- african american
- education
- marching band
- music
Paul "Tank" Younger
Paul "Tank" Younger, a Grambling, Louisiana native, played college football at Grambling State University and was the first player from a historically black university to play...
- louisiana
- african american
- sports
- football
- hbcu
Battle of Calcasieu Pass
Near this spot Confederate soldiers under the command of Col. W.H. Griffin captured the Union gunboats Wave and Granite City in the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Cameron, Louisiana, on May 6, 1864....
- louisiana
- civil war
- cameron parish
- calcasieu
Ellwood-Craig House (Pompeiian Villa)
Built in 1900 as the winter home of Isaac L. Ellwood (1833-1910), principal developer of barbed wire. Architects G. C. Nimmons and W. K. Fellows, of Chicago, designed the house in a...
- texas
- landmark
- historic home
Sparks Settlement Cemetery
John and Melinda Sparks and their family came to southeast Texas from Tennessee in 1838. They settled on the Jeremiah Mixon headright on Lake Sabine and later set aside land for a family burial...
- texas
- cemetery
In Memory Arthur Stilwell Smith
In MemoryArthur Stilwell SmithFirst BirthFirst DeathIn Port ArthurMay 1896.Sparks Settlement CemeteryErected by Port Arthur Teen Canteen1948
- texas
- cemetery
John Delafose
John Delafose (1939-1994) Born in rural Duralde, John Delafose began playing fiddle as a child, eventually learning harmonica and finally accordion. He is best known for playing...
- louisiana
- music
- zydeco
- opelousas
Amédé Ardoin (1898-1942)
Amédé Ardoin, a Creole accordion player, laid the foundation for modern Creole and Cajun style music. He was known for his high pitched and expressive vocals. Growing up around Eunice and Mamou,...
- louisiana
- zydeco
- music
- cajun
- opelousas
George Henry Hall 'The Pit-Boy Peer' 1881-1965
English 1st Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley From Penrikyber Colliery to the House of Lords. Welsh Yr Is-iarll Hall Cwm Cynon cyntaf O Bwll Glo Penrikyber i Dŷ'r Arglwyddi.
- wales
- government
- viscount
The Hartford Times
The Hartford TimesFounded a weekly newspaper January 1, 1817, by Frederick Dunton Bolles and John Milton Niles. A champion of the party of the Constitution and reform in the state of Connecticut....
- hartford
- newspaper
- connecticut
- uconn
Lady Stair's Close
Settle in, folks, because we're about to talk about a plaque. #AlwaysReadThePlaque pic.twitter.com/fDDch5Gfp4— The ZAnon Conspiracy (@zxqwd) April 3, 2019
Emil Fischer
James Demint Cabin Site
1799 1925 One Hundred Feet South Of This Spot, James Demint, The Founder Of Springfield, Built The First Cabin In The City. In 1803 He Completed The First Plat Of The City Erected By The...
- springfield
- ohio
- james demint
- jjc
- spc
Denver Union Station
Submitted by @JimStLeger
Benjamin Franklin, Class of 1930
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1706 - 1790 THE CLASS OF 1930 AT ITS 50 TH REUNION HONORS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WHICH BEGAN AT THIS SITE IN 1749 AND WHICH IN 1779 BECAME...
Deep Space Station 43, 70m 'Ballima'
DEEP SPACE STATION 43, 'BALLIMA' OFFICIALLY OPENED BY THE HON. E. G. WHITLAM, Q.C., M.P., PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA ON 13TH APRIL, 1973 THE STATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN CO-OPERATION WITH...
Anthony Benezet
