He closed out his time as a Hoosier as one of the best swimmers in the history of the program, receiving 14 career All-America certificates to place 8th all-time in program history after swimming greats Jim Montgomery (20) and Mark Spitz (19).
The poet James Whitcomb Riley facetiously suggested that the fierce brawling that took place in Indiana involved enough biting that the expression "Whose ear?" became notable.
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Some notable Hoosiers raised in or near the Broad Ripple neighborhood include late night talk show host David Letterman, professional football player Rosevelt Colvin, Indiana Pacers guard George Hill, New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson, astronaut David Wolf, actor Abraham Benrubi, and author Dan Wakefield .
Buzzard Roost Trail, a hiking trail in Southern Indiana, United States; part of the Hoosier National Forest
In 1897, a publishing house chose Relyea to illustrate The Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem satirizing The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
He was elected to the Indiana Academy, an organization honoring people with a Hoosier background who have won national recognition for themselves or the state.
Ober is a sixth-generation Hoosier who grew up in rural Albion, Indiana.
During this time, they released a split LP with The Gizmos, entitled "Hoosier Hysteria",(extremely rare) and a self-titled 7" EP. A Track of theirs, "Ladies With Appliances", was also featured on the "Red Snerts" compilation.
In some states, the program name is the generic term, as with California's Freeway Service Patrol; in others, the program has an individualized name, as with Indiana's Hoosier Helper program.
The Historic Hoosier Gym, located in Knightstown, Indiana, is most famous for being the central location for the 1986 basketball movie Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper.
Red Nichols, Al Hirt, Pete Candoli, Horace Heidt, the California Ramblers, Miss Patricola on Victor, the Hoosier Hot Shots on Melotone, and Henry Busse with his orchestra, have all recorded the song.
In 1913, Thomas Marshall, Governor of Indiana, became yet another Democratic Hoosier to be a Vice President (under Woodrow Wilson).
In 1988, the administration of Governor Robert D. Orr proposed that the Indiana General Assembly renovate the statehouse as part of "Hoosier Celebration '88", the building's one-hundredth anniversary.
South Indiana is the northernmost extent of the South Midland region, forming what dialectologists refer to as the "Hoosier Apex" of the South Midland; the accent is locally known there as the "Hoosier Twang" where Interstate 64 is usually referred to as Sixty-For or U.S. 41 is casually referred to as Forty-One.
The Riley Memorial Association was founded in 1921 to honor beloved Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley.
Steele’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious exhibitions, including the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) in Chicago, Illinois; the Five Hoosier Painters exhibition (1894) in Chicago; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) in Saint Louis; the International Exhibit of Fine Arts (1910) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile; and at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, California.
The station was purchased from Hoosier Radio and TV in 2000, and was given the call sign WDNI-LP in 2001; at the same time, the station rebranded as Indy's Music Channel, adopting a format that carried music videos from the rock, alternative rock, hip-hop, R&B, dance and heavy metal genres.