Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
James Prinsep FRS (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India.
He was the executive director of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which opened on 18 September 2021. [ 2 ] On 17 April 2017, the Tulsa World reported that Henry had resigned from his position as executive director of Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum , effective 14 April 2017.
Center of the American Indian (1978–1992), Oklahoma City; Derailed Railroad Company Museum, Blackwell, display moved to Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Museum after creator's death [103] Ida Dennie Willis Museum of Miniatures, Dolls, and Toys, Tulsa; Indian City USA Cultural Center, Anadarko; International Linen Registry Museum, Tulsa [104]
James Pepper Henry resigns as director of Gilcrease Museum, effective April 14, to become Director of the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum in Oklahoma City. EF-2 Tornado strikes southeast Tulsa after midnight August 5–6, causing major property damage, especially to Promenade Mall and 18-story Remington Tower office building near 41st ...
This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma has a long history of Native American settlement and reservations. From 1834 to 1907, prior to Oklahoma's statehood, the territory was set aside by the US government and designated as Indian Territory, and today 6% of the population identifies as Native American.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic drastically delayed the project, the state Historical Society started in 2022 seeking American Rescue Plan Act funds to finish the museum. The city of Tulsa committed ...
These edicts were deciphered by British archaeologist and historian James Prinsep. [5] The inscriptions revolve around a few recurring themes: Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism, the description of his efforts to spread Buddhism, his moral and religious precepts, and his social and animal welfare program. The edicts were based on Ashoka's ideas on ...
In a photo provided by the city of Tulsa, a monument to honor people found or exhumed during a probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre stands in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, November 12. (City of ...