What if Columbus had not changed Native American history
A reflective piece asks how American Indian development might have evolved without European contact. It notes Incas and Mayans achievements, towns the lack of the wheel, and ponders what they could have achieved in a future century, including possible gunpowder and retained lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Mexican
Yucatan Peninsula
Central America
Pizzaro
Peru
Asia
Pass the hash . Before the floods split California
The column muses on splitting California into two states Cali and Fornia before recent floods. It notes obituaries as a daily reading habit and laments veterans' deaths while recalling Civil War veterans. Gus Schrader's Monday column in The Gazette offers light humor and regional riffs.
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California
Los Angeles
Dakota
Carolina
Cali
Fornia
Gazette
Iowa
Minnesota
American Masters Night and Utopia Symposium On Campus
A busy Cedar Rapids arts and civic schedule features American Masters: Neil Simon at Theatre Cedar Rapids at 7 p.m. and More's Utopia symposium by Jeff Hoover at Coe College. Also Chi-Town Jazz Dance Company performs at 8 p.m. and Cedar Rapids Symphony with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal at 7:30 p.m. at Paramount. City meetings and school board sessions fill the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neil Simon
America
Theatre
Cedar Rapids
Third St. SE
Jeff Hoover
Hickok Hall
Coe College
DANCE
Chi-Town Jazz Dance Company
Conservatory of American Music
Jazz
Chicago
Sinclair Auditorium
Cedar Rapids Symphony
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Paramount Theatre
Mozart
C.P.E. Bach
Haydn
Amana School Board
Linn County Conservation Board
Board of Supervisors
Cascade City Council
Elkader City Council
Oelwein City Council
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Vinton
Shellsburg
Walker City Council
Oelwein
Thurday
Five Seasons
Gwendolyn Brooks First Black Pulitzer Poet Laureate
Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1950 for Annie Allen, a coming of age portraits volume. Born in Topeka in 1917, she moved to Chicago as a child and began writing at home amid teasing.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Annie Allen
Brooks Was
Topeka
Kan
Chicago
Brooks
Bronzeville
Mademoiselle Magazine
Illinois
Nebraska creates most jobs per person in 1991 but many low paid
Nebraska gained about 30,400 jobs in 1991 a 4.1 percent growth rate that led the country. Economists say many were part time low paying and stress the need for higher wage opportunities. Professor Keith Turner of the University of Nebraska comments on wage quality. Service industries accounted for 11,700 jobs the largest share.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Keith Turner
University of Nebraska
State Labor Department
Omaha Sunday World-Herald
Elizabethtown Man Given 15 Years to Life for 12th DUI Conviction
Louis Bowers, 62, of Warrensburg, received two concurrent 15 years to life sentences under New York persistent felony offender law after a 1990 incident in Minerva. He has 17 arrests and 12 prior drunken driving convictions. Judge Peter Feldstein noted the pattern and enhanced sentence.
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Elizabethtown
N.Y
Essex County Court
Peter Feldstein
Louis Bowers
Bowers
Warrensburg
Minerva
Feldstein
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Christopher Columbus
New World
North America
Chichen Itza
Merida
Mexico
Gus Schrader
The
Cityline
Iowa City
American Childhood Magazine
World
Lisa Ann Williamson
Sateen
SPS
Third Avenue SE
Cedar
Carner
the Associates Protels Aoites Enchatvaly
Gene
Seneencenn
Cedar Rapids Inc
P.O
Man
Earth Savers
Tribune Media Servi
Ces
the Information Booth
Jazz Transit
Abwa
Irkwood
KCRG
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