The World Superbike Championship will continue to visit the United States until 2013 after organisers reached an agreement to keep the series at Miller Motorsports Park for another three years.
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A 1994 honor graduate of North High School, Roxana was active in music, soccer, Key Club, and danceline. Roxana earned a double major in French and Communication in 1997 from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. She remained active with music, soccer, and reporting for the campus television and newspaper.
In 1997, she was selected Miss North Dakota; and was a Top Ten Finalist at the Miss America competition, winning the Scholar Award. In 1999, she completed a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago; and in 2000, Roxana earned a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Cambridge University in England.
Roxana has worked in video journalism and reporting for various television stations and agencies in several states and England. Since 2003, she has served as a free lance journalist representing various international organizations, including the BBC. She is presently residing in Tehran, Iran, where she reports on the Middle East; and is completing work on a Master’s Degree in Iranian Studies and International Relations.
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Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living placidly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an offer to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will never be broken.
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Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico.
The holiday commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.
While outnumbered, the Mexicans defeated a much better-equipped French army that had known no defeat for almost 50 years. However, Cinco de Mayo is not “an obligatory federal holiday” in Mexico, but rather a holiday that can be observed voluntarily.
While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. However, a common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day, which actually is September 16, the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.
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