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St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska; seen from the southeast. On March 16, 2007, a painting of The Virgin Immaculata was reported stolen from St. Cecilia. About 7:30 am, church officials noticed the artwork had been cut from its frame. The painting was an 8 foot by 5 foot image, part of a collection donated to the cathedral in 2002.
The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919.The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County ...
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha.
Jeff Bezos. Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( / ˈbeɪzoʊs / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
October 17, 1978 [2] The Nash Block, also known as the McKesson-Robbins Warehouse and currently as The Greenhouse, is located at 902-912 Farnam Street in Omaha, Nebraska. Designed by Thomas R. Kimball and built in 1907, the building is the last remnant of Downtown Omaha 's Jobbers Canyon. It was named an Omaha Landmark in 1978, and was listed ...
Jeff Draheim — film editor. Nicholas D'Agosto — television and film actor. Alfonza W. Davis — Tuskegee Airman. Chip Davis — musician, founder of Mannheim Steamroller. Dick Davis — NFL player. Brian Deegan — FMX rider. Tom Dennison — political boss of Omaha, 1890s-1933. Adam Devine — actor. Ted Dibiase - former professional ...
Premise. Better Call Saul is a spin-off of Breaking Bad, a popular crime drama television series that ran from 2008 to 2013. It is primarily a prequel that focuses on Jimmy McGill, a former con artist aiming to gain respectability as a public defender, and chronicles his gradual transformation into his eventual Breaking Bad persona of Saul Goodman, the flamboyant criminal lawyer with ties to ...
University of Nebraska Omaha. / 41.259; -96.006. The University of Nebraska Omaha ( Omaha or UNO) is a public research university the central United States, located in Omaha, Nebraska. [5] Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally known as the ...