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* TIMBERLY ROSS ( Associated Press ), " Fuzzy boundaries of Omaha Tribe cause confusion ", News from Indian Country, 19 April 2007
Race over Grace: The Racialist Religion of the Christian Identity Movement, Omaha, Nebraska: iUniverse Press.
* Judith A. Boughter, Betraying the Omaha Nation, 1790-1916, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
After serving from 1952 to 1954, he joined the Associated Press ( AP ) and became a political correspondent in Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1999.
" Omaha " the Cat Dancer became the subject of the eponymous comic book series published from 1984 to 1993 by Kitchen Sink Press ; it was relaunched by Fantagraphics Books through 1995.
The first chapter of " Omaha " the Cat Dancer was published by Kitchen Sink Press in Bizarre Sex # 9 in 1981.
In 1984, SteelDragon Press published the first issue of " Omaha " the Cat Dancer, which featured the second chapter of the story.
According to April 2006, information published by Associated Press, the current Omaha public school district has approximately 45, 000 students classified as 46 percent white, 31 percent black, 20 percent Hispanic, and 3 percent Asian or American Indian.
Fortune: Omaha Secret Societies, Reprint from New York: Colunbia University Press, 1932 ; New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1969
* Karl J. Reinhard, Learning from the Ancestors: The Omaha Tribe Before and After Lewis and Clark, University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Zorinsky died after suffering a heart attack at the 1987 Omaha Press Club ball.
The convention center has hosted the Omaha Press Club Show, Peel's Salon Shows, OWH Bridal Ideas Shows, River City Hunting & Fishing Expo, Nebraska State Bridge Tournament which hosts Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

Omaha and .
Let us look in on one of these nerve centers -- SAC at Omaha -- and see what must still happen before a wing of B-52 bombers could drop their Aj.
The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.
On May 13, 2007, Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 12.
The Union Pacific-Central Pacific ( Southern Pacific ) mainline followed the historic Overland Route from Omaha, Nebraska to San Francisco Bay.
* 2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
The Ladies of SKC, Northland Noise SG, Omaha Boys and others have gained many supporters and have been officially recognized by Sporting KC.
The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska.
The Sioux were also expecting a retaliatory raid from the Omaha Indians, to the south.
A recent Sioux raid had killed 75 Omaha men, burned 40 lodges, and taken four dozen prisoners.
The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.
In the patrilineal tribes, such as the Omaha, Osage and Ponca, hereditary leadership passed through the male line, and children were considered to belong to the father and his clan.
The Osage, Omaha, Ponca and Kaw lived in the Ohio Valley, but under pressure from the Iroquois to the northeast, migrated west of the Mississippi River to Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma in the 1600s.
Texas hold ' em and Omaha are two well-known variants of the community card family.
Other games such as Texas hold ' em and Omaha hold ' em do not play well with wild cards.
The blinds exist because Omaha and Texas hold ' em are frequently played without antes, allowing a player to fold his hand without placing a bet.
This makes some nut hands very vulnerable in nine-card games, such as Omaha hold ' em.
In Omaha, with the same board as above, a player holding 7 ♠ 8 ♠ plus 2-3 of any suit has the nut-nut and is guaranteed no worse than a split of the low pot plus a win of the high pot.
Omaha hold ' em ( also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha ) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold ' em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his or her best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards.
Omaha uses one standard 52-card French deck.
Limit Omaha hold ' em 8-or-better is the " O " game featured in H. O. R. S. E.

Horatius and .
Hearing of the doings at Rome the king, his sons and a party of retainers rode posthaste for the city, leaving Titus Herminius and Marcus Horatius in command of the troops at Ardea.
Meanwhile letters had arrived from the revolutionary committee and were read to the troops by Herminius and Horatius.
It was in accordance with this direction that the consul Horatius dedicated the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in the year following the expulsion of the kings ; from the Consuls the ceremony of fastening the nails passed to the Dictators, because they possessed greater authority.
Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the ancient Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Lars Porsena, king of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium.
This animated depiction shows the phases of the battle, including the defense of the bridge by Horatius.
Perceiving the danger, three officers ( of noble rank ) stood shoulder-to-shoulder to allow their own troops to pass and block the passage of the enemy: Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus, commanders of the right wing ( equivalent to colonels or lieutenant generals ), and Publius Horatius, a more junior officer of unspecified rank.
" They called on Horatius to retreat but perceiving the tactical difficulty of allowing the enemy to cross he stood his ground, directing them to tell the consuls to tear up the bridge.
Wounded as he was Horatius was honorably crowned and conducted into the city by a singing crowd while the populace streamed into the streets to see him.
Horatius was now disabled and could not by law remain in the army or hold public office.
Polybius ' brief notice of the story uses Horatius as an example of the men who have " devoted themselves to inevitable death ... to save the lives of other citizens.
" Though Horatius did not perish in the river, the disability he suffered ( and subsequent honorable discharge from the army ) ended the life he had previously pursued.
Horatius ' action at the bridge halted the Etruscan attack and forced Lars Porsena to engage in a protracted siege of Rome rather than sacking it outright, which was later concluded by peace treaty with the city intact.
" Florus has something similar to say: " It was on this occasion that those three prodigies and marvels of Rome made their appearance, Horatius, Mucius and Cloelia, who, were they not recorded in our annals, would seem fabulous characters at the present day.
The story is retold in Horatius from the Lays of Ancient Rome by Lord Macaulay, a poem of great popularity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
* Vulcanal, a statue in honor of Horatius Cocles was said to have been set up here.
The most famous of them, Horatius, concerns the heroism of Horatius Cocles.
Festus and other ancient authors explain Curiatius by the aetiological legend of the Tigillum, the expiation undergone by P. Horatius when victorious over the Alban Curiatii, for the murder of his own sister, by walking under a beam with his head veiled.
This rite was supposed to commemorate the expiation of the murder of his own sister by Marcus Horatius.
Thence the analogy with the rite of the Tigillum Sororium would be apparent: both in the myth and in the rite Janus, the god of motion, goes through a low passage to attain Carna as Horatius passes under the tigillum to obtain his purification and the restitution to the condition of citizen eligible for civil activities, including family life.
The veiled head of Horatius could also be explained as an apotropaic device if one considers the tigillum the iugum of Juno, the feminine principle of fecundity.
b ) The Tigillum Sororium would be related to a cult of wood of the Horatii, as shown by the episodes of the pons sublicius defended by Horatius Cocles and of the posts of the main entrance of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, on which Marcus Horatius Pulvillus lay his hand during the dedication rite.

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