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John Jasinski (b. 1962) Ph. D. 1996. Academic administrator (Northwest Missouri State) Alvin Saunders Johnson (1874–1971) M. A. 1898. Economist, founder of The New School. Charles L. Littel (c. 1886–1966) B. A. 1912. founder and president of Junior College of Bergen County and Centralia Junior College.
Grand Island College and Conservatory of Music, originally called Grand Island Academy, was founded by the Baptist Church of Nebraska in 1882. It closed in 1931 and merged with the University of Sioux Falls. Grand Island Senior High School now sits on the former college site. [16][17][18] Grand Island College. 1885.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Charles Starkweather. Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) [2] was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. [3] He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest.
This is a list of all senators who have served in the Nebraska Legislature since it became a unicameral body in 1937. Legislative districts for elections from 1936 to 1962. Legislative districts for the 1964 election only. The districts were renumbered from the pre-1964 apportionment. Legislative districts for the 1966, 1968, and 1970 elections ...
NCAA Division II – The MIAA. Mascot. Louie the Loper. Website. www.unk.edu. The University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is a campus of the public University of Nebraska system and located in Kearney, Nebraska. It was founded in 1905 as the Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney.
Robert Arthur Hawkins [2] On December 5, 2007, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins shot and killed eight people and wounded four others in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. [4] It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather ...
History Nebraska. History Nebraska, formerly the Nebraska State Historical Society is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information ... and to embrace alike aboriginal and modern history." It was designated a state institution in 1883, and upgraded to a state agency in 1994.