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Jacobellis

Jacobellis v. Ohio, a United States Supreme Court decision of 1964 on obscenity


110 N. Main Street

110 N. Main Street is an office tower located in downtown Dayton, Ohio.

174th Brigade

174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States), a major subordinate command of the Ohio Army National Guard located in Columbus, Ohio.

Ammon Hennacy

Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents, Benjamin Frankin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist.

Ansonia, Ohio

An IOOF lodge was instituted on June 18, 1875 with sixteen members; it grew nearly sevenfold in its first forty years.

Sixteen women in the community founded a chapter of the Daughters of Rebekah in 1894, and a lodge of the Knights of Pythias was also established in the village.

Anthony Floyd

Floyd attended Chaney High School in Youngstown, Ohio and earned three varsity letters together in football and basketball, and four in track.

Bracken County, Kentucky

White burley tobacco, a light, adaptable leaf that revolutionized the industry, was first sold at the 1867 St. Louis Fair by the farmer Mr. Webb from Higginsport, Ohio.

Brandt, Ohio

At one time the village had two grocery stores and an active fraternal presence with the International Order of Oddfellows being housed in a two-story frame structure.

Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Performances were offered at Cleveland State University and many other Cleveland venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Trinity Cathedral, Public Hall, Karamu House, Liberty Hill Baptist Church, Old Stone Church and John Carroll University.

Columbia Township, Lorain County, Ohio

On November 3, 2006, The Oprah Winfrey Show aired an episode regarding safe-haven laws titled "All-American Tragedy" which centered on a story related to Columbia Township.

Crosley Broadcasting Corporation

During World War II, Crosley built the Bethany Relay Station in Butler County, Ohio's Union Township, one mile west of its transmitter for WLW, for the Office of War Information.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Dave Longaberger

His concern for his community was evident in the money, effort and time he donated in and around Dresden, Ohio.

East Rochester, Ohio

East Rochester is a census-designated place in southern West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

Eaton, Ohio

Jane LeCompte - Novelist who has written over 20 Romance novels under the name Jane Ashford

Energy in Ohio

Rolls-Royce North America's Energy Systems Inc., a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based Rolls-Royce plc, is headquartered in Mt. Vernon, specializing in gas compression, power generation, and pipeline technologies.

Fall Creek Massacre

Early sources close to the case, such as the Federal Indian agent John Johnston, described them as a mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee, or Mingo, from Logan, Ohio, named for the chief.

Florence S. Jacobsen

As a church curator, Jacobsen supervised the restoration of many church buildings, including the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City; the E. B. Grandin building in Palmyra, New York; the Brigham Young home in St. George, Utah; the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah; the Newell K. Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio; and the interior of the Manti Utah Temple.

Fryburg, Ohio

Fryburg is well known for its annual Homecoming Festival, held the Sunday before Labor Day at St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

The portage across Marblehead Peninsula is named DeLery Portage because of his documentation of it in his 1754 journal.

Harrison, Ohio

Harrison's mayor is Joel McGuire, an attorney, former Army Ranger, and former member of Harrison City Council.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Hugh L. Nichols

In 1922, Nichols was appointed chairman of the U. S. Grant Memorial Centenary Association, which directed the restoration of the Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and directed the state to acquire it.

James Celebrezze

James Patrick Celebrezze (born February 7, 1938) is an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party, who served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, common pleas court (domestic relations division).

Joel Barlow

He had previously, however, induced the company of Frenchmen, who ultimately founded Gallipolis, Ohio, to emigrate to America.

John I. Vanmeter

He moved to Pike County, Ohio, in 1826 and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Kingsville Academy

Kingsville Academy was a school which was chartered in Kingsville, Ohio in 1834.

Lakeside, Ohio

It is located in Ottawa County's Danbury Township, near the town of Marblehead.

Llanbrynmair

The two most prominent emigrants were Edward Bebb and Ezekiel Hughes, who settled in Butler County, Ohio near Paddy's Run.

London, Ohio

It is the second largest community in the United States named London.

Marcio Leite

Leite was injured again with the same injury while playing for the Croatian Eagles Soccer Club in the annual Labor Day Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament in Cleveland, Ohio in September 2009.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Mary Holda

A native of Mansfield, Ohio, Mary Holda was one of the original South Bend Blue Sox founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its 1943 inaugural season.

McCann brothers

The elder Arthur and his brother, Thomas, came to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1811, shortly after it was founded in 1810.

McRoberts, Kentucky

Paul Toth, a major league pitcher in the 1960s, was born in McRoberts, although he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio.

Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio

Miami Township is home to the American offices of LexisNexis information systems, a regional office of MetLife insurance, and the world headquarters of Teradata.

Mudsummer Classic

The CarCash Mudsummer Classic Presented by CNBC Prime’s 'The Profit' is a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race held at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

Nate Hartley

He attended Rootstown Elementary School in Portage County, Ohio.

National Computer Camps

There are locations at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where Dr. Zabinski is a professor of physics and engineering; Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia; and John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

New Miami, Ohio

One of Armco's best-known products may be the crash barriers installed around many auto-racing tracks, particularly in Formula One.

Nick Theslof

Stevens, impressed with Theslof's potential, offered him a youth contract at PSV, which Theslof accepted and moved from his home in Columbus to Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Ohio Penitentiary

Conditions in the prison have been described as "primitive," and the facility was eventually replaced by the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility in Lucasville.

Orange Twin Conservation Community

To date, the concerts have featured bands such as Elf Power, The Olivia Tremor Control, and Bonnie Prince Billy as well as Nana Grizol and Defiance, Ohio.

Preble County, Ohio

After finishing fifth grade, Preble County students attend Union County Middle School and Union County High School, both located across the state line in Liberty, Indiana.

Redtown, Ohio

Redtown is located at the intersection of State Routes 13 and 685.

Richard Kenneth Fox

(born October 22, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (1977–79).

The Philly Kid

The film's production staff included about ten department heads with ties to the Wright State University film program or Dayton, Ohio.

UNIFAT

Schools involved Include Eastern High School (New Jersey), Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Purcell Marian High School, Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Madeira High School, Anderson High School, Taylor High School, Wyoming High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.

Union busting

In 1980, the author of Confessions of a Union Buster named Martin J. Levitt reported that he conducted a counter-organizing drive at a nursing home in Sebring, Ohio.


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