The DIAMOND SHAMROCK CORP. began as a Cleveland-based chemical company which, in 2003, was headquartered in Dallas under the name Maxus Energy Corp. The Diamond Alkali Corp., a forerunner of Diamond ...

Thursday, October 8: noon - 7 p.m. Friday, October 9: 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday, October 10: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion Friday, October 9: 7 a.m ...

IMMIGRATION AND MIGRATION. The growth of major industrial centers such as Cleveland was made possible in large part by the migration of peoples of a variety of origins to provide the labor or ...

"FOREST CITY" Cleveland's long-time nickname, has murky origins. An obituary of TIMOTHY SMEAD claims that "while in an editorial capacity Mr. Smead gave to Cleveland the name of Forest City" (PLAIN ...

More than 70 interdisciplinary researchers in every school across the university are engaged in child-related studies across a wide range of research areas.

Between 1900-20, Cleveland's population doubled, from 381,768 to 796,841; this influx of mostly unskilled workers worsened inadequate housing. While the city did purchase a parcel of land in 1913 for ...

TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONES. Cleveland's connection to the rest of the U.S. by telegraph line was a communications breakthrough essential to the city's commercial and industrial development. During ...

The HANNA THEATER, located at E. 14th St. and Euclid Ave., has been a mecca of live THEATER in Cleveland for roughly a century. Along with the Hanna Building and Annex in which the theater is enclosed ...

If you have graduated from high school (or equivalent) and enrolled in college courses, regardless of whether credit was earned, you are considered a transfer student. Our admission office may, at its ...

CONRAIL (the Consolidated Rail Corp.), a privately owned company primarily in the freight business, was established by Congress in 1975 to reorganize and consolidate 5 of 7 bankrupt northeastern ...

Although the State was modified to show Cinerama in 1967, the continued decline of the downtown led to its closing in Feb. 1969. It seemed doomed to become a parking lot, until Life magazine featured ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS began as a hamlet in 1901, was incorporated as a village in 1903, and became a city in 1921. Six miles east of downtown, it comprises eight square miles, bounded on the west by ...