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Former Seattle Supersonics head coach George Karl, who is slated to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022, tweeted out his belief that the Sonics and Oklahoma City Thunder should not share a history together.

This was due to the fact that the SportsCenter account tweeted a graphic of Kevin Durant and Gary Payton as the only two players in franchise history who were drafted second overall with a third one soon to join as the Thunder jumped up the 2022 NBA draft lottery and received the second overall pick.

Karl quote tweeted SportsCenter and voiced his opinion of the teams needing to separate their histories. Please dont combine Thunder and Sonics history. Thank you.

Karl coached the Sonics from 1992 to 1998, where they reached the NBA Finals in 1996 before losing to the Chicago Bulls.

This has been a hot button issue since the Thunder relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008. The team officially owns the full history of the Sonics as well since its the same franchise, but the Thunder have basically never acknowledged the history prior to the relocation. If the Sonics eventually come back as an expansion team, Im sure the team will gain the history back and this entire semantical debate can finally be put to rest.

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MANHATTAN The Manhattan History Museum has introduced new exhibits and a redecorated display space this month.

Along with its regular exhibits, two new ones are currently being showcased A Household in Time and Manhattan Township: 30,000 BCE to 1886.

A Household in Time features a trip back in time, presenting the retro-style household items used by our ancestors in their daily lives to work, play, parent and keep up the house. On display are many hand-operated devices that are precursors to modern appliances. From a crank-operated sausage maker to a pedal-powered sewing machine, this exhibit takes viewers back to an earlier time. This exhibit will be semi-permanent in that parts of it will be changed over time to present various aspects of early domestic life.

Manhattan Township: 30,000 BCE to 1886 is a journey through time. Common belief has it, before the Village of Manhattan was incorporated, much of the land was settled by Irish and German immigrants who left their homelands seeking the opportunity provided by the construction of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Following the completion of the canal, many of the workers settled into a life of agriculture. But what forces led to the construction of the canal in this area, formed the soils and caused trails to course through the tall grasses? What prompted early settlers to brave the hardships of the treeless prairie and convert the grasslands into productive farms and thriving communities? This exhibit studies these forces. The journey through history begins with the warming of the climate at the end of the most recent Ice Age and ends with the incorporation of the village we know today.

These exhibits will run for several months at the Manhattan History Museum at 225 S. State St. For information such as scheduled openings and tour opportunities, visit the museums Facebook page by searching Manhattan Historical Society.

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New exhibits at the Manhattan History Museum - The Herald-News

History offers no promise of an answer or a happy ending. There is not even a promise of a happy beginning: The further back we go, the less we have to go on. Worst of all, a historian cannot make anything up, but must still make everything into a story. No wonder historians tend to avoid historiography, writing about how history is written. It would give the game away.

Richard Cohens Making History is a substantial, ambitious and consistently readable inquiry into the history of history. His search for how the historical sausage gets made leads him to examine the biographies of the butchers, from Herodotus (the father of history, Cicero said, the father of lies, Plutarch said) to Nikole Hannah-Jones (the mother of more recent inventions in The 1619 Project). Academics may object that biography is vulgar, like writing for money, but the approach of Mr. Cohen, a longtime London book editor, has the weight of history behind it. Character always was destiny. It is not histories we are writing, but Lives, Plutarch wrote in the early 2nd century. The characters of the past, and the stories we tell ourselves about them, shape our present and future.

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Making History Review: Writers of the Permanent Record - The Wall Street Journal

Horses work out on the Pimlico track early Tuesday as preparations for Saturday's Preakness Stakes are underway. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The 147th Preakness could be run in some of the hottest weather in the history of the Triple Crown race.

The temperature at Pimlico Race Course soared above 90 degrees Fahrenheit just after 1 p.m. ET. The forecast calls for it to be 90 degrees when the horses enter the starting gate just after 7. Post time is scheduled for 7:01.

The record high on Preakness day is 96 set in 1934.

Epicenter lost the Kentucky Derby because of a hot pace. Now he'll face hot temperatures in the Preakness.

Epicenters trainer, Steve Asmussen, said he was as concerned as he possibly could be about the heat.

"We know it can be pretty sticky when it gets warm in Baltimore, so I think that all of them are going to have to deal with that," Asmussen said. "Hes a big horse turning back in 14 days, so just make sure hes drinking plenty of water and hydrated, just like your kids."

Kentucky Derby runner-up Epicenter was set as the 6-5 morning line favorite for the Preakness Stakes, which will be run without Rich Strike.

The surprise Derby winner at 80-1 is not in the field of nine for Saturdays $1.65 million race. Rich Strikes owner felt the two-week turnaround did not give the colt enough rest and plans to enter him in the Belmont.

RELATED: Explainer: How 81-1 shot Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby

Rich Strikes absence clouds the second jewel of horse racings Triple Crown and makes this the second Preakness in four years without the Derby winner.

Last year, Medina Spirit ran and finished third at Pimlico after testing positive at Churchill Downs for a substance that was not allowed on race day and was eventually disqualified. In 2020, the races were run out of order because of the pandemic. And in 2019, neither DQed Derby champion Maximum Security nor elevated winner Country House went to the Preakness.

Post time for the Preakness is scheduled for 7:01 p.m. ET.

This story was reported from Detroit. The Associated Press contributed.

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Preakness could be run in some of hottest weather in race's history - FOX 5 DC

Today in OTM History

2021: Danny Santana activated; This move didnt really work out as the Red Sox were hoping.

2020: Robbie Ross Jr. was underrapreciated; His career was short-lived, but while here he played a big role.

2019: Matt Barnes is the reason this bullpen has worked; Matt Barnes getting it done in the first half? Well I never! (Id take it this year, though.)

2015: Brady Aiken mocked to the Red Sox; They ended up with Andrew Benintendi, which I suppose is a better pick.

2014: Its time to turn to Pawtuckets rotation; In this case, that means Brandon Workman and Allen Webster.

1988: Bobby Doerr has his number retired for the Red Sox. Doerr is perhaps the most underrated all-time great in Red Sox history, with his time often overshadowed from being Ted Williams teammate.

1940: Jimmie Foxx hits a grand slam for the second straight day. He becomes only the third player in American League history to do so.

Happy would-be 113th birthday to Mace Brown, who ended his career as the Red Sox closer, though spent a couple of years fighting for the military after claiming that role.

Happy 37th birthday to Andrew Miller, who just this year retired and starting in 2012 rejuvenated his career as a reliever, becoming one of the most dominant in all of baseball.

Happy 52nd birthday to Bryce Florie, who is most famous for being hit in the eye with a line drive, which in turn made young me refuse to pitch for the rest of my life.

Many thanks to Baseball-Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History for assistance here, and thanks to Battery Power for the inspiration for these posts.

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Today in Boston Red Sox History: May 21 - Over The Monster

BEMIS, Tenn. One community is celebrating its Heritage Day.

Its a homecoming and a heritage festival, said Joel Jackson, chairman Bemis Historical Society.

The former town of Bemis celebrated its Heritage Day and one of its landmarks.

This is actually not our bicentennial but its our centennial of this building that were in right now, the Bemis Auditorium is what they first called it, Jackson said.

Gregory Hammond grew up in Bemis and says this day has helped him learn more about it.

Ive learned more about Bemis, than I did when I was raised here through this, through heritage, and so much went on and now I know who founded it, where it started and I was living in it, Hammond said.

Hammond says there should be more Heritage Days.

Its beautiful to memorialize the small town living, small America, Hammond said.

There was also a grand reopening of the Stella Duncan Park of Bemis with brand new equipment.

Its a whole new generation of equipment and a whole new generation of people, Jackson said.

The next Heritage Day will be June 4th celebrating Denmark and Vine Hill at the Denmark Elementary School.

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Community comes together to celebrate its history - WBBJ TV - WBBJ-TV

The brutal market sell-off pushed the S & P 500 into bear market territory briefly on Friday , and the rout could get a lot worse if history is any guide. The S & P 500 fell as much as 2.3% at its session low, sending the benchmark 20.9% below its intraday high in January. The index ultimately closed the wild day flat, sitting 19.2% below its record. There's no official bear market designation on Wall Street. Some will count Friday's decline at the intraday lows as confirmation of a bear market, while others may say it's not official until the index actually closes 20% off its high. There have been 14 bear markets since World War II on a closing basis and, on average, the S & P 500 has pulled back a median 30% and the downturn has lasted a median 359 days, according to Bespoke Investment Group. We are just 136 days out from the S & P 500's intraday record shortly after 2022 began. Investors have been on edge since the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point this month, the most aggressive step yet in its fight against a 40-year high in inflation. The monetary tightening only adds to a list of worries for investors, ranging from war in Ukraine, the pandemic's path in China and global supply chain issues. On Wednesday, the S & P 500 suffered its worst one-day decline since June 2020, losing about 4%. The rout came after back-to-back quarterly reports from Target and Walmart that showed higher fuel costs and restrained consumer demand hurting results amid the hottest inflation in decades. "The stockmarketwill remain in purgatory until the Federal Reserve smothers the inflationary wildfire with higher interest rates that cool consumer demand for goods, services, houses and hotel rooms," saidRyan Belanger, founder of Claro Advisors. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has been hit even harder in the face of rising rates, down 27.4% year to date and off 30% from its record high, reached last November. "Investors should become accustomed to significant downside and upside moves in stocks, which is common during times of tremendous uncertainty," Belanger said.

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A history of bear markets shows stocks may have further to fall - CNBC

We've emerged from the depths of theBioShock series to begin a fresh season of Video Gameography! We're doing things differently this time as we're discussing the gameography of a developer rather than covering an individual game series. That studio is Supergiant Games, the acclaimed indie developer of Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades. This week, weconclude our season by analyzing 2020's Hades.

Unlike Supergiant Games' previous titles, Hades had two release dates. Its first release came on December 6, 2018 when it launched in early access on PC, while the full game was available to be played on September 17, 2020. Hades takes everything the studio has learned up to this point and blends them into an ambitious rogue-lite that's developed in a way the team has never experienced before:with the gaming public playing the game as it's being made. Check out this episode to learn the backstory of how Pyre's large cast of characters inspired the evolving narrative ofZagreus and hisdysfunctional diety family, how the studio fared developing an early access game, and learn all about Greek mythology from our guest, the incomparable Jill Grodt.

Join hosts Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), John Carson (@John_Carson), along withGame Informerassociate editor Jill Grodt(@Finruin) for a verbal stroll throughthe history and narrative of Hades!

If you'd like to get in touch with the Video Gameography podcast, you can email us atpodcast@gameinformer.com. You can also join our officialGame InformerDiscord server by linking your Discord account to your Twitch account and subscribing to theGame InformerTwitch channel. From there, find the Video Gameography channel under "Community Spaces."

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Exploring The Full History Of Supergiant Games' Hades | Video Gameography - Game Informer

13 years ago today, Evgeni Malkin put on a show that is still remembered by Penguins fans everywhere.

The second game of the Eastern Conference Final featured 11 goals, with the Pens winning 7-4.

Evgeni Malkin scored a hat-trick, with the third being one of the most special of his career.

Oh my word! Evgeni Malkin....spectacular!

The goal speaks for itself.

Winning the faceoff, taking control of the puck, working his way around the net, going to the backhand, everyone thinking Theres no way hes going to shoot, and then just making it look easy and fooling Cam Ward.

It was a series where Malkin was unstoppable, scoring six goals in 4 games and helping lead the Penguins to the Cup Final with a sweep over the Hurricanes.

What a special place the Mellon Arena was, and videos like these show that without question.

This has to be one of Malkins best goals, right?

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On this date in Penguins history: Malkins magnificent hat-trick - PensBurgh

The Great Salt Lake, already vulnerable to climate fluctuations over the ages, has been set up to fail by human impacts, but some of those who are making such assessments nevertheless see hopeful signs in the states new enthusiasm to save the vital inland sea.

The lake is known as a terminal lake, meaning it has no outlet and therefore is exposed to major climate-driven changes. In the 1980s, the lake rose 4 meters, causing flooding and even prodding the state to build giant pumps to send the extra water into Utahs west desert. But now, amid a Western megadrought, the lake is dipping to historic lows, made more significant by upstream diversions and consumption.

It is normal for a terminal lake to fluctuate, but that makes it easy to excuse what is happening, said Bonnie Baxter, a Westminster College biology professor who has studied the lakes biological characteristics and the growing populations impacts. Now there really are stark differences and indicators that humans are having an impact on what would be a normal fluctuation.

However, the deepening lake emergency moved the Utah Legislature this year to create a $40 million program to look at ways to preserve and restore the lake. Baxter, who heads Westminsters Great Salt Lake Institute, said she sees signs of a groundswell of support for saving the lake.

I think people are waking up to the fact that it might go away, Baxter said. One indicator is that more people are realizing the lake has individual importance the scenery, depicted by amateur artists who now wistfully remember closer shores; hunters prowling the lakes fringes for generations; workers who see their livelihoods potentially evaporating; sailboat owners whose craft sit idle, unable to launch because theres not enough water; and so on.

Im not a person that is prone to drama; I am motivated by the straightforward science, Baxter said. But I am seeing people moved by fear for the lake along the Wasatch Front. I am motivated by that.

The lake, the eighth largest saline lake in the world, has an estimated $1.5 billion economic value and supports about 10 million waterbirds, of about 250 species.

A 2017 Utah State University study estimated than Utahns every year divert 3.3 trillion liters of water from the rivers and streams that feed the lake.

Baxter and others in academia have traced the Great Salt Lakes natural and human history, hoping that their work will help to inform the ongoing conversation about the lakes fate.

Weve done this experiment before, Baxter said, referring to other terminal lakes, like the Aral Sea, that have shrunk by catastrophic degrees. It starts with water diversions to feed people, to house people, and then you have a time of drought and the lakes are no longer able to bounce back.

The Great Salt Lakes geologic history shows a much larger view than the disappearance of the freshwater Lake Bonneville, which lost enormous volume about 15,000 years ago, its remnant being the current stressed saltwater lake. Baxter said that was only the most recent stupendous transformation over the last 800,000 years, large lake episodes have been the norm. Water in the Bonneville basin over geologic time has risen and fallen repeatedly.

In her 2018 study Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective, Baxter describes humans impacts on the lake and how the body of waters nature has been altered by upstream consumption, diversions such as Farmington Bay and Willard Bay, and industry.

Humans likely have been in Utah since the Pleistocene epoch, between 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, the high point of Lake Bonneville, according to Baxters manuscript, which in part draws upon the work of numerous scientists and historians.

Lake Bonneville would have given the regions inhabitants an abundant source of freshwater fish. As the lake changed over time, humans would have moved in tune with the changing shorelines, hunting, fishing and foraging.

The Fremont native peoples buried their dead during their time around the Great Salt Lakes wetlands and along the Bear River in the period of 400 to 1000 AD, as shown by anthropology and archeology studies. The Shoshone and Utes lived on the lakes north side and the Goshutes roamed along the lakes southern reaches.

In 1824, explorer Jim Bridger floated down the Bear River and into the Great Salt Lake, claiming its modern discovery. But historians have reported that French-Canadian trapper Etienne Provost beat Bridger to the Great Salt Lake by a few months.

The John C. Fremont expedition in 1843 mapped and described the regions topography, including the lakes islands one of which bears his name and reported on its mineral and biological content. In 1849, civil engineer Howard Stansburys team conducted a wider study of the lakes geography, natural history, minerals and water chemistry. Stansbury also is immortalized by an island named after him.

The 1847 arrival of the pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints heralded what would become todays significant population growth and associated human impacts on the lake.

The pioneers noted that the Salt Lake Valleys geography paralleled the Holy Lands in the Middle East. According to the church in a 1997 citation, the similarity generated a sense that Salt Lake was a land for a chosen people, just as the Holy Land was seen as the promised land in biblical times.

Mineral extraction, agriculture diversions and shortcuts for the railroad eventually would affect the previously pristine lake as the settlement grew. Minerals obtained today are used for road and softener salt, magnesium chloride for steel production, and potassium sulfate for fertilizer.

Those industries diverted and dammed and created evaporation ponds. Other damming projects created vital bird habitats, but they too diverted water that before would have reached the lake.

The brine shrimp industry began booming in the 1970s, but increasing salinity in the shrinking lake threatens the enterprise. However, Baxter pointed to cooperation between the industry and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to ensure the lake is not overharvested.

With the combination of climate change and assorted human impacts, Now weve got this lake set up to fail, Baxter said. But Im really buoyed by what happened in the Legislature. It was unanimous, bipartisan. There was a lot of lake love going on. It was beautiful.

She urged people to look at the array of reasons they should care about the lake. If you dont care about the migratory birds, you might care about what the dust will do to air quality. We all need to be doing not one thing, but everything we can do to value water getting into this lake.

This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lakeand what can be done to make a difference before it is too late. Read all of our stories at greatsaltlakenews.org

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History lessons: Are Utahns 'waking up' to the Great Salt Lake's peril? - Salt Lake Tribune