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Superb Li holds off Schiavone to make history
source: http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/news/articles/2011-06-04/201106041307201940284.html China’s Li Na held firm in the face of a ferocious comeback on the part of defending champion Francesca Schiavone to win 6-4, 7-6(0) and claim the first-ever Grand Slam title for a player from Asia. The sixth seed put in a brilliant display, dominating Schiavone in the opening set and then stymieing the Italian’s comeback in the second. Li is a fully deserving champion, having beaten four top ten seeds to claim the crown, and her success should do wonders for the popularity of the sport in China.
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Captive male frog coughs up babies
Dante Fenolio A captive bred Darwin’s frog is held by a researcher shortly after it was coughed up from its dad’s vocal sac. Ten baby frogs were coughed up at a breeding facility in Chile on Thursday. By John Roach A captive male Darwin’s frog coughed up ten babies Thursday at a zoo in Santiago, Chile, a milestone in a project to save the amphibians from extinction. The vulnerable species is one of two members of the only genus on Earth that rears its young inside of its vocal sac, a job taken on by the males. “They have a small opening below their tongue. … After [the eggs] hatch, he…
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Vigil Remembering Tulsa Race Riots-90 Years Later
Reported by: Jamie Oberg Email: joberg@fox23.com May 31st – the anniversary of a sad day in Tulsa’s history; it’s the 90th anniversary of the race riots. After sixteen hours of attacks, hundreds were injured and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless. A candlelight vigil will be held Wednesday night from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in downtown Tulsa. Fox23’s Jamie Oberg spoke with one local author who told the story of the Race Riots many had never heard. “Recognize it happened, don’t let it happen again.” As Tulsa remembers the Race Riots in the Greenwood District 90 years ago, author and native Tulsan Eddie Faye Gates remembers…
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The Tulsa Race Riot
The Tulsa Race Riot Tulsa Historical Society 2445 South Peoria Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 918.712.9484 | ths@tulsahistory.org On the morning of May 30, 1921, a young black man named Dick Rowland was riding in the elevator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main. The white elevator operator, Sarah Page, claimed that Rowland grabbed her arm, causing her to flee in panic. Accounts of the incident circulated among the city’s white community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling. Tulsa police arrested Rowland the following day and began an investigation. An inflammatory report in the May 31 edition of the Tulsa Tribune spurred a confrontation between black and…
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In Honor of Those Who Suffered in Stalin’s Gulag
source: http://www.artukraine.com/paintings/getman.htm THE GULAG COLLECTION: PAINTINGS OF THE SOVIET PENAL SYSTEM BY FORMER PRISONER NIKOLAI GETMAN “I was born on December 23, 1917 in the town of Kharkov, Ukraine” Nikolai Getman Book: “The Gulag Collection: Paintings of the Soviet Penal System by Former Prisoner Nikolai Getman” Published by The Jamestown Foundation Washington, D.C.; Year 2001 1. ESSAY NUMBER ONE FROM THE BOOK————————— In 1946 an artist named Nikolai Getman was imprisoned in the Soviet Union’s GULAG. During the 1920s, the Soviet Union developed a system of extreme repression and terror that inflicted forced famines, purges, executions, and arrests on the people of the Soviet Union. Under Josef Stalin, forced-labor camps…