Indianapolis 500

followed this up with a smaller version called the intrigue. Unfortunately, these models couldn't save the company and they ceased production in April 2004. In an interesting twist the last 500 cars of each model to leave the assembly plants received a special Oldsmobile heritage emblem package and [final 500 literature]. Classic Cars from Oldsmobile You don't see a lot of Oldsmobile classic cars at local shows in my area. Whether it's because the line of automobiles isn't supported as well as…

All animals used in this experiment were purchased from Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN, USA). The animal procedures are approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of East Tennessee State University, as well as complied with the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. These animals were housed on a 12:12 h light cycle (lights on at 07:00 a.m.). Water and food were provided ad libitum. Rats were randomly assigned to different experimental groups after living an…

Cummins Incorporated is a worldwide well-known manufacturer of diesel engines. It supplies its products to North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, China, Korea, Japan, Latin America, India, Russia, Southeast Asia, South Pacific and Mexico. This publicly traded corporation employs around 55,000 people, who do not only create high-quality diesel and natural gas engines, but also design, distribute and sell engine-related products (1). On the top of that, Cummins provides service of its engines…

but at the time they didn’t give full birthdays they just listed the year. June 1st, 1843 she actually changed her name to “Sojourner Truth.” “She joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry.” She also lived with those members on 500 acres as a self-sufficient community. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.” She was born into slavery but she attempted to escape with her daughter in 1826 for freedom and she…

Technological inventions further allowed Americans to experience popular entertainment. During the period, radio began to rise as a form of mass communication. The first radio station, U.S., Pittsburgh’s KDKA, hit the airwaves in 1920. By 1923, more than 500 radio stations were available across the nation. The automobile also became a more popular means of transportation. Henry Ford worked to make the average car affordable for the average family. In 1924, Ford Model T cost a consumer $264…

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kurt Sr. and Edith Vonnegut. His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy brewer. Kurt Jr. was the youngest of their three children. The Depression brought many changes to the Vonnegut household. Kurt Sr. had to sell the house and Kurt Jr. was taken out of private school. In his teen years, Vonnegut wrote for the student paper, The Echo, and he continued his interest in journalism at Cornell,…

At one point in time, there were roughly 400 to 500 covered bridges in the state of Indiana. Beginning in 1835, Henry County contained the first covered bridge in Indiana history. In 1937, Indiana was home to 202 covered bridges; Dearborn County had two. By 1998, there was only one covered bridge in Dearborn County, and it is known as Guilford Covered Bridge (Covered Bridges in Indiana). Guilford Covered Bridge was built in 1879 by A.M. Kennedy and Sons, who had built around fifty…

I would be far more sensitive to his concerns (I was a white woman from Chicago coming to his home deep in the segregated south). Ned knew that this city girl had never driven the backwoods, he proceeded to drive like he was at the "Indianapolis 500" down the road that led to the house. And true enough, I had never driven in a rural community nor dirt roads, huge logging trucks on the left, no road to the right, and finally crossing a bridge that was built before the Civil War a true…

Philip T. Clark, made it trustworthy and efficient. The Mustang was a role model to all other cars. Within the first month of debuting, the 1964 Ford Mustang was already on race tracks across America and was set as the pace car for the 1964 Indianapolis 500 race. It was born a race car do to its high powered engine and bodywork (Ford.com). This magnificent car set some pretty high standards for all others in its shadow. In the first…

Hugo Grotius’s Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty, completed in 1606, profoundly challenges the traditional conceptual dichotomy between private piracy and public warfare. Grotius’s treatise convincingly blurs comfortable distinctions between piracy, privateering, and warfare. The historical event giving rise to the Commentary was an act of piracy. In 1602, the Dutch sea-captain Jakob van Heemskerck was commissioned by the United Amsterdam Company to command eight of their ships and engage…