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Bandleader. Educator. Musician. Robert E. "Bob" Bachelder (May 15, 1925 – May 5, 2015) was an American orchestra leader and educator. He learned to play several instruments, primarily drums then piano, and started a band as a serviceman during World War II. In 1953 while in college his band had a national hit with "TV Rhumba".
Totem pole. A Gitxsan pole (left) and Kwakwaka'wakw pole (right) at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, Canada. Totem poles ( Haida: gyáaʼaang) [1] are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures.
The conservation and restoration of totem poles is a relatively new topic in the field of art conservation. Those who are custodians of totem poles include Native American communities, museums, cultural heritage centers, parks or national parks, camp grounds or those that belong to individuals. Conservation activities include the historical ...
The CCC project built the community house and placed 15 totem poles, most of them replicas of 19th-century poles. At statehood in 1959, title to the land passed from the federal government to the State of Alaska. The historic site, comprising 8.5 acres (3.4 ha) of the park, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 27, 1970.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, [8] created by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin and Dennis Austin [8] at a software company named Forethought, Inc. [8] It was released on April 20, 1987, [9] initially for Macintosh computers only. [8]
Bob Kevoian [ 2] Produced by. Dean Metcalf. Original release. March 7, 1983 [ 3] Website. bobandtom .com. The Bob & Tom Show is a syndicated US radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 7, 1983, and syndicated nationally since January 6, 1995.
Billy Bob’s Texas has been in Fort Worth for over a century, first opening as an open-air barn for cattle in 1910. Over the years, the building was used for livestock events, a department store ...
Anishinaabe clan system. The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian -speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan ( doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages. Today ...