the world-renowned 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis, Indiana, plus a festival from May 27-30 ; ;

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000.

He later became the Highway Commissioner for the State of Indiana and was assigned to building a highway from Indianapolis, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky.

* The Colonial ( Indianapolis, Indiana ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ) in Indiana

She was born on January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Category: People from Indianapolis, Indiana

Translation by Nicholas P. White Hackett Publishing co. Indianapolis, Indiana, 1983

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1995.

John Finley of Richmond, Indiana, wrote a poem, " The Hoosier's Nest ", which was published in 1833 and was used as the " Carrier's Address " of the Indianapolis Journal, January 1, 1833.

After relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro League World Series.

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1975 – 78.

Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis, 1995.

Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis, 1995.

And in Division II St. Joseph's, University of Indianapolis and University of Southern Indiana have added their own successes to the legend of Indiana basketball.

Category: People from Indianapolis, Indiana

The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana and play their home games at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Category: People from Indianapolis, Indiana

* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

In Week 15, they lost to Indianapolis, 34 – 24, which placed the Colts back atop the AFC South.

In the playoffs, they defeated the Indianapolis Olympians in three games but lost to the Rochester Royals in the next round.

While beating Wisconsin ( Leaders Division Champions ) in regular season play on a last second Hail-Mary pass, they lost in dramatic fashion to the Badgers in the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game played in Indianapolis.

Philippoussis returned to professional tennis seven weeks later at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships and lost his second round match after receiving a bye in the first round.

He won the RCA Championships in Indianapolis and reached the final of the Canadian Open, where he lost to Lendl.

The Patriots lost to the Washington Redskins 20-17 in Week Four but swept the rest of the NFC East and the entire AFC South ; the Patriots shut out Dallas in bitter cold and edged the Giants in the rain while hammering Philly following the infamously erroneous " They hate their coach " quote from Tom Jackson ; the Patriots also edged the Titans, Houston in overtime, and former division rival Indianapolis in shootouts while routing Jacksonville ( which like Carolina had entered the NFL in 1995 ) in the regular season, and then edged the Titans and hammered the Colts in the playoffs.

The deal did not remain secret long, and combined with what was considered his " insane " idea of making Indianapolis a hub for a great railroad system, and without a party to support him, he lost most of his public support.

For example, the Cleveland metropolitan area lost approximately 2 % of population, while Louisville gained 8 %, Columbus gained 12 %, and Indianapolis gained 14 % over the same time period.

Leading Scranton in games played, doubles, and triples the next season, Rollins helped lead the team to the playoffs, where they defeated the Buffalo Bisons in the first round, but lost to Indianapolis in the finals.

Johnson lost to Matthew Saad Muhammad and Lotte Mwale in the build-up but won a world title — the WBC light heavyweight version — from fellow southpaw Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia with a 10th-round KO in Italy in December 1978, then lost that same title the following April, in front of his hometown Indianapolis fans, in a rematch to Muhammad in what was perhaps 1979's Fight of the Year for many observers.

In his first season at Indianapolis the Colts were shut out 41 – 0 by the New York Jets in a first-round playoff game, and the team lost postseason games to the New England Patriots in both 2003 ( in the AFC championship game ) and 2004 ( in the second round of the playoffs ).

However, he is still remembered for the dramatic manner in which he lost the 1912 Indianapolis 500.

In 2011 the Indiana General Assembly passed a resolution naming I-465 as " USS Indianapolis Memorial Highway " in " the memory of the brave sailors who lost their lives " when USS Indianapolis was sunk in the Pacific during World War II.

" The Bears won the NFC Championship against the New Orleans Saints, 39 – 14, but lost Super Bowl XLI to the Indianapolis Colts, 29 – 17.

Subsequent victories over the Indianapolis Colts and Jacksonville Jaguars sent the Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV to face the St. Louis Rams, where they lost by a touchdown in another game that went down to the final seconds, known as " One yard short " or " The Tackle.

Baltimore, however, lost to eventual Super Bowl champions, the Indianapolis Colts, 15 – 6, in the divisional round.

In the season opener of the 2007 season, Bush and the Saints lost to the defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts 41 – 10.

She met John Muir when he lived in Indianapolis in 1866-1867, and helped take care of him when he temporarily lost his vision in an accident.

They lost an early show to the Cadets, lost their home show and DCI Midwestern in Indianapolis to the Blue Devils, but they won three other DCI Regionals, Drums Along the Rockies in Denver, DCI Mid-America in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and DCI East in Allentown.

Leffler lost his ride at Ultra Motorsports, where he drove the # 2 truck for the team in the Craftsman Truck Series, because of his start at Indianapolis, but Haas hired him to drive the car on a more permanent basis shortly thereafter.

Because Columbus is far enough from Indianapolis, it benefits tremendously from nearby commuters who recognize Columbus as a major city in its own right.

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

Indianapolis has hosted all but one of the women's tournaments since its inception in 1995, and Bankers Life Fieldhouse has hosted every tournament since 2002, as well as the 2000 edition.

After the Indianapolis Indians moved to Victory Field, a race track took its place and the race track owners stripped the ivy off of the walls.

A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east-west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north-south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Mobile, and Birmingham.

These included the Leedy Manufacturing Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana, who retained the vibraphone name of their earlier product but abandoned its design in favor of the Henry Schluter innovations, and the Jenco Company, of Decatur, Illinois, who initially marketed their instruments as " vibrabells ".

In 1999 the NCAA moved its 300 member staff to its new headquarters in the White River State Park in a four-story, facility on the west edge of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.

Three of its teams were admitted to the NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts ( not related to the later NFL team that would play in Baltimore from 1953 through 1983, now the Indianapolis Colts ).

Another CSX line enters the far southeastern corner of the county on its way from Terre Haute to Indianapolis.

In June 2008, Hamilton County was named America ’ s Best Place to Raise a Family by Forbes. com due to its strong economy, affordable living, top-ranked schools, and close proximity to Indianapolis.

is a four-lane divided highway which passes from east to west through the middle of Fountain County, on its way from Indianapolis in the east to Illinois in the west.

Founded by Chauncey Rose, the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad began operations between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in February 1852 and its traffic soon surpassed that on the canal.

The Mustang made its first public appearance on a racetrack little more than a month after its April 17 introduction, as pace car for the 1964 Indianapolis 500.

Colfax was laid out in 1849 by Montgomery Stroud and originally named Midway for its position between Indianapolis and Lafayette along the Lafayette railroad.

Batesville is noted for its central location between Indianapolis, Indiana ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; and Louisville, Kentucky.

After the state of Indiana moved its capital to Indianapolis from Corydon in 1825, the community started to grow.

Winona Lake was also home to the headquarters of The Free Methodist Church until it moved its offices to Indianapolis in 1990.

Although geographically completely surrounded by Indianapolis, Beech Grove maintains its own police, fire, public works, and parks departments and operates its own public library and senior-citizens ' center.

It is part of the Indianapolis radio / television market and has its own cable TV Government-access television ( GATV ) channel available on the Comcast system.

Speedway is the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, from which the town derives its name, and is a complete enclave of Indianapolis.