Kokomo is a city in and the county seat of Howard County,Indiana,United States. Its population was 59,890 according to the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 estimate. It is the principal city of the Kokomo metropolitan area,which includes all of Howard County,and it is the largest city and regional center for the North Central Indiana region consisting of ~225,000 people across six counties anchored by the city of Kokomo. The city is located approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of Indianapolis and 85 miles (137 km) south of South Bend,Indiana.
Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb,as well as contributing to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.
Jan Harold Brunvand is an American retired folklorist,researcher,writer,public speaker,and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah.
The 1996 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 5,1996,to elect members to serve in the 105th United States Congress. They coincided with the re-election of President Bill Clinton. Democrats won the popular vote by almost 60,000 votes (0.07%) and gained a net of two seats from the Republicans,but the Republicans retained an overall majority of seats in the House for the first time since 1928.
South Deering,located on Chicago's far South Side,is the largest of the 77 official community areas of that city. Primarily an industrial area,a small residential neighborhood exists in the northeast corner and Lake Calumet takes up a large portion of the area. 80% of the community area is zoned as industrial,natural wetlands,or parks. The remaining 20% is zoned for residential and small-scale commercial uses. It is part of the 10th Ward,once under the control of former Richard J. Daley ally Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.
John Tipton was from Tennessee and became a farmer in Indiana;an officer in the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe,and veteran officer of the War of 1812,in which he reached the rank of Brigadier General;and politician. He was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1819,and in 1831 as US Senator from the state of Indiana,serving until 1838. He was appointed as US Indian Agent and was selected to lead the militia in removing Menominee's band of Potawatomie in 1838;they were relocated to Kansas,Indian Territory.
Harold's Chicken Shack is a popular fried chicken restaurant based in Chicago,Illinois. The chain operates primarily in Chicago's predominantly black communities but has additional locations in Carbondale,Illinois;Springfield,Illinois;Northwest Indiana;Indianapolis,Indiana;Phoenix,Arizona;Atlanta,Georgia;Las Vegas,Nevada;St. Louis,Missouri;Houston,Texas;Brooklyn Center,Minnesota;and Los Angeles,California.
Harold Willis Handley was the 40th governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1957 to 1961. A veteran of World War II,and furniture salesman by trade,Handley began his political career as a state senator. Thanks to his longtime friendship with state party leader and United States Senator William E. Jenner,he was able to secure the nomination to run for lieutenant governor in 1952,during which time he opposed many of the actions of Governor George N. Craig. His popularity rose among the conservative leadership of the Indiana Republican Party and aided him in winning the nomination and subsequent election as governor in 1956.
Graham Dury is a British cartoonist. He is known for his work with Viz,having contributed to the magazine from its early years. He co-conceived and personally created The Fat Slags,one of the magazine's most famous strips.
The killer in the backseat is an urban legend from the United States and United Kingdom. It was first noted by folklorist Carlos Drake in 1968 in texts collected by Indiana University students.
The South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway,owned by Mittal Steel Company,is the former Chicago Short Line Railway which operates 27 miles (43 km) of track between Chicago,Illinois and East Chicago,Indiana.
Philip Harold Hayes was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana. He was a U.S. Representative,serving in Congress for one term from 1975 to 1977.
Edward S. "Ted" Kress was an American football player and businessman. He was the starting left halfback for the University of Michigan in 1952 and 1953 and set a Big Ten Conference single-game rushing record with 218 yards in October 1952. He later founded the Kress Corporation,a manufacturer of heavy industrial hauling vehicles,in Brimfield,Illinois.
The 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2012. Incumbent governor Mitch Daniels was term-limited and unable to seek a third term. The Republican candidate,Congressman Mike Pence;the Democratic candidate,former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives John R. Gregg;and the Libertarian candidate,youth mentor,small business owner and reality TV personality,Rupert Boneham,were all unopposed in their respective primaries or conventions and contested the general election. This is the first open Indiana gubernatorial election since 1996 and the first gubernatorial election since 1972 without the incumbent governor or lieutenant governor as a nominee.
David Slagger is a Maliseet politician in Maine. Slagger served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives,representing the newly recognized Maliseet Tribe. Slagger was sworn-in as the appointed representative to the House of Representatives on January 4,2012. He held the seat temporarily until a tribal election could be conducted to elect a Maliseet Tribal Representative,which the Maliseet Tribe then did on December 22,2012 when tribal members elected Henry John Bear as their first elected Tribal Representative to the Maine House of Representatives. Slagger did not seek another term as Maliseet representative.
On April 4,2015,Walter Scott,a 50-year-old black man,was fatally shot by Michael Slager,a local police officer in North Charleston,South Carolina,United States. Slager had stopped Scott for a non-functioning brake light. Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced showing him shooting Scott from behind while Scott was fleeing,which contradicted Slager's report of the incident. The racial difference led many to believe that the shooting was racially motivated,generating a widespread controversy.
In 2022,the U.S. was the third-largest producer of raw steel worldwide,after China and India,and ranked sixth in pig iron production. By November 2024,the industry produced over 74 million net tons annually.
Kemondo Iron Age Sites or KM2 and KM3 are Early Iron Age complex industrial archaeological sites in Kemondo ward,Bukoba Rural District,Kagera Region,Tanzania,excavated by a team led by archaeologist Peter Schmid in the late 1970s and 1980s. The excavations aimed at better understanding the iron smelting process and its ritual aspects in East Africa. At the KM2 and KM3 sites,Schmidt tested the hypothesis that the high combustion temperature of furnaces,discovered to be between 1,350–1,400 °C (2,460–2,550 °F),was caused by the preheating of air blasts. Preheating has been suggested to be a distinct feature of African Early Iron Age smelting techniques by ethnographic observations of the Haya people of northwestern Tanzania.
Chris Chyung is a real estate businessman who served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2018 to 2020. Chyung was the first Asian American and was the youngest person serving in the Indiana House at the time.
The 2022 elections for the Indiana House of Representatives took place on Tuesday November 8,2022,to elect representatives from all 100 districts in the Indiana House of Representatives. The primary election took place on Tuesday May 3,2022. The Republican Party had held a House majority since 2011.
