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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Association of Tennis Professionals, Wars and Interventions, Satellite Technology, Travel Alerts, Stonefield (music group)
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Finalist for Archaeology Curator to Give Talk
Channel 2 NewsOne of three finalists for a job as curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North is scheduled to speak at a public seminar this week. University of Alaska Fairbanks officials say Josh Reuther will speak about the archaeology of the...Tags: Anthropology, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Bill would protect water-authority lands from artifact looters
Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught. But a loophole in state law meant that looters didn't face consequences for their thievery on Lake County Water...
Tags: Executive Branch, Crimes, Ocala National Forest, Conservation, Natural Resources
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, DePaul University, Arts, Theft, Justice System
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Turbine blade plummets in Ocotillo
Staff WriterOCOTILLO — A massive blade from one of the 112 wind turbines recently installed was found near a tower base Thursday, after plummeting onto the ground overnight, triggering safety concerns among officials and some residents. No injuries were...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Wind Power, Labor Legislation
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A lost Spanish mission on the York River
When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia. Four times during the previous half-century, Spanish explorers probed the James and York rivers - and on Sept. 10, 1570 they planted a Jesuit mission...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), College of William and Mary, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Mexico City, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
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Poor potter, great pots at Yorktown
Virginia Lt. Gov. William Gooch had good reason to hide the truth when he made his annual report to the British Board of Trade in 1732. Though the Crown prohibited its colonies from manufacturing domestic goods, Gooch and other members of the...
Tags: Executive Branch, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Travel, National Parks, Gardens and Parks
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Don't ruin Robinson's Arch
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have mixed emotions about Natan Sharansky's proposed agreement to expand the public space at the Western Wall to include the currently secluded area known as Robinson's Arch. As a lifelong Conservative Jew, I applaud any plan...Tags: Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Judaism
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Scientists find cannibalism at American settlement in Jamestown
Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism. On Wednesday, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and...
Tags: Research, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Museums, Smithsonian Institution, Anthropology
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Results of field school to be given
ELKHART - Jay VanderVeen, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend, will present a public program at 6:30 p.m. May 7 at the Havilah Beardsley House, 102 W. Beardsley Ave. In the program, 'Unearthing the Story of the...Tags: Indiana University South Bend, Arts and Culture
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Evidence suggests Maya roots more tangled than previously thought
The classic Maya civilization, which flourished in Central America for more than 600 years, has been celebrated for its vast city states adorned with monumental pyramids and for its technological feats such as the development of an elaborate written...
Tags: University of Arizona, Science and Technology, Mexico, Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Guest column: Anthropologists should do a better job of promoting their field
Anthropology has been in the news quite a bit lately. The New York Times recently profiled Napoleon Chagnon on the eve of the publication of his memoir, "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists."...Tags: Sports Illustrated, Zora Neale Hurston, World Bank Group, Bones (tv program), Anthropology
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