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- ... that journalist Isaac Saul was named as one of the 16 people who had the greatest influence in the 2016 U.S. election?
- ... that American football player Tanner Brown went from being a walk-on to a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award as the best college placekicker in the United States?
- ... that current Hawaii football defensive coordinator Trent Figg coached for the United States national team in 2016?
- ... that the main nesting site of the Japanese murrelet was used as a bombing range by the USAF?
- ... that the Springfield Science Museum is home to the oldest operating projection planetarium in the United States?
- ... that "Fear", an episode of The 1619 Project, traces present-day vigilante violence against Black youths in the United States to the fear of slave rebellions?
- ... that anti-refugee activist Ann Corcoran has claimed that refugees are a Muslim plot to colonize the United States?
- ... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?
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Robinson was also known for his pursuits outside the baseball diamond. He was the first black television analyst in Major League Baseball, and the first black vice-president of a major American corporation. In the 1960s, he helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem, New York. In recognition of his achievements on and off the field, Robinson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
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A major producer of natural gas, oil and food, Oklahoma relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's primary economic anchors, with nearly 60 percent of Oklahomans living in their metropolitan statistical areas.
With small mountain ranges, prairie, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains and the U.S. Interior Highlands—a region especially prone to severe weather. With a prevalence of residents with Native American ancestry, more than 25 Native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma, the most of any state. It is located on a confluence of three major American cultural regions and historically served as a route for cattle drives, a destination for southern settlers, and a government-sanctioned territory for Native Americans.
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Anniversaries for May 26
- 1647 – Alse Young, is hung in Hartford, Connecticut, becoming the first person executed for witchcraft in the American colonies.
- 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by Congress; It is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
- 1868 – The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by a one vote margin.
- 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol (seal pictured) as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
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- ... that Elakala Falls (pictured) may derive its name from the legend of Elakala, the story of a Native American princess who threw herself over the edge of the first waterfall when her lover scorned her?
- ... that Latavious Williams rejected a US$100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?
- ... that "Peligroso Amor" was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
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