History. The first Slovenes in the United States were Catholic missionary priests in the early 19th century. Two of the earliest such missionaries were Anton Kappus and Frederic Baraga. Many of these early immigrants were bilingual Slovene-German speakers.. The peak of emigration from what is now Slovenia was between 1860 and 1914; during this period, between 170,000 and …

Kurent (tudi korant) je značilni pustni lik s Ptuja, Dravskega polja in okolice, v pustnem času nastopajo na tradicionalnem kurentovanju.Po izročilu s poskakovanjem kurenti s hudim truščem (zvonjenjem) iz dežele odganjajo zimo in zlo, vanjo pa kličejo pomlad ter dobro letino.

Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession and absolution, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms, finalizing one's Lenten sacrifice, as well as eating pancakes and other sweets.. Shrove Tuesday is observed by many Christians, including Anglicans, …

The Hope Memorial Bridge (formerly the Lorain–Carnegie Bridge) is a 4,490-foot-long (1,370 m) art deco truss bridge crossing the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio.The bridge connects Lorain Avenue on Cleveland's west side and Carnegie Avenue on the east side, terminating just short of Progressive Field.. Four pairs of statues designed by sculptor Henry Hering and architect …

St. Clair–Superior is a neighborhood on the East Side in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.Largely settled in the 1880s and 1890s by Eastern European immigrants, white flight in the 1990s left the neighborhood largely African American.It is one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Cleveland today.

Ivan Janša (Slovene: [ˈíːʋan ˈjàːnʃa]; born 17 September 1958), baptized and best known as Janez Janša (Slovene: [ˈjàːnɛs]), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993, Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party, which has emerged as the …

Baseball Active. Cleveland Guardians, Major League Baseball (1901–present); Defunct. Cleveland Forest Citys, National Association (1871–1872); Cleveland Spiders, National League (1879–1884, 1889–1899); Cleveland Blues, American Association (1887–1888); Cleveland Infants, Players' League (1890); Cleveland Bearcats, American Association (1914); Cleveland Spiders, …

Beginnings. The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust in 1913 with an endowment from prominent Cleveland industrialists Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley. The neoclassical, white Georgian Marble, Beaux-Arts building was constructed on the southern edge of Wade Park, at the cost of $1.25 million. Wade Park and the museum were designed by the …

Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport covers an area of 450 acres (180 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 6L/24R measuring 6,198 x 150 ft (1,889 x 46 m) and 6R/24L measuring 5,197 x 100 ft (1,584 x 30 m). The airfield is fully capable of handling large jets including, 737s, 757s, and A320s along with the smaller general aviation aircraft operations.

Cargo. The Port of Cleveland handles the bulk of raw material shipments for regional manufacturing, as well as exporting some local resources (salt mined from under Lake Erie, materials quarried locally, Ohio farm surpluses).. Primary Cargoes. Inbound: Steel, heavy machinery, iron ore, limestone, liquid/dry bulk; Outbound: Steel, iron ore, limestone, cement, …