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The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation, Inc., is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Iowa on April 25, 1986, for the sole purpose of preserving the history of the sport of sprint car racing and honoring its greatest achievers. The $1.7-million facility, located on the Marion County Fairgrounds in ...
Joe Saldana; Al "Cotton" Farmer; Chester "Chet" Gardner; Earl Halaquist; Allen Heath; Bert Emick; Beryl Ward; Harold Leep; Jimmy Oskie; Steve Smith; Tom Marchese
John Singer Sargent ( / ˈsɑːrdʒənt /; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) [ 1] was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. [ 2][ 3] He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal ...
The 2008 Daytona 500, the 50th annual running of the event, was held on February 17, 2008 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The race was the 50th to be run since the first in 1959, won by Lee Petty. To commemorate the event, the Harley J. Earl Trophy, which goes to the winner of the race, was plated in gold instead of ...
1962 USAC Championship Car season. The 1962 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Trenton, New Jersey on April 8 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona on November 18. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Rodger Ward.
The All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC) is an American motorsports sanctioning body of winged sprint car racing founded in 1970. The series sanctions 410ci sprint car races in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, and Florida. On average the series runs 40 races per year, starting February and ending in October ...
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse. The author died in 1926, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term ...
Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent. It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station. Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front [ 1 ...