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A U.S. district judge ruled in 1977 that the school was intentionally creating school boundaries to separate White and Black students. The school district challenged the segregation ruling, bringing it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court supported the judge's decision, forcing new busing routes in the school district.
The Colossus of Rhodes straddling over the harbor, painting by Ferdinand Knab, 1886. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by ...
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(1934) The Auto-Lite Strike, which culminated in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers, began. April 13 (1792) Major General Anthony Wayne , where Wayne County, Ohio gets its name from, was summoned by George Washington to lead an army against the Indians of the Northwest Territory .
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It was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , it was constructed to celebrate the successful defence of Rhodes city against an attack by Demetrius Poliorcetes , who had besieged it for a year with a ...
Russell Butler (23 August 1943 – 26 January 2024), best known by the pseudonym buZ blurr, was an American artist and photographer primarily known for his contributions to the modern mail art network [1] and for the boxcar art he produced under the monikers Gypsy Sphinx and Colossus of Roads.
The Colossus of Rhodes was the last of the seven to be completed, after 280 BC, and the first to be destroyed, by an earthquake in 226/225 BC. It was therefore already in ruins by the time the list was compiled, and all seven wonders existed simultaneously for less than 60 years.