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Course Source: Chambers Bay GC, Wawona Hotel GC
ReutersThe Sports Xchange By Tom LaMarre, The Sports Xchange Course Source: Chambers Bay GC, Wawona Hotel GC IN THE PUBLIC EYE: Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash., five miles south of Tacoma and 45 minutes south of Seattle. THE LAYOUT:...Tags: Ulysses S. Grant, Yosemite National Park, William Howard Taft, Golf, Cross Country Skiing
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Oval Office may be Floridian's home
With each passing day, Jeb Bush looks more and more like a presidential candidate. At this stage, he's striking the obligatory, non-committal tone, but he's just come out with a book on immigration reform, is showing up on radio and TV talk shows, and...Tags: Jeb Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal, Herman Cain
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St. Joe clinches state quiz bowl title
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Four times the quiz bowl team at St. Joseph High School has finished second at the state championship. They are runners-up no longer. On Saturday, the 10-member team captured its first Traditional Quiz Bowl state championship in a...Tags: High School Sports
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SB St. Joe wins state quiz title
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – South Bend Saint Joseph High School won the 17th annual Traditional Quiz Bowl state championship on Saturday. 24 teams from around the state participated in the tournament, held at William Henry Harrison High School in West...Tags: High School Sports
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Art Callaham: Some more fun facts about our presidents
Early after the first of this year, I wrote a column concerning interesting facts about our presidents, and I promised to write more. That column and this one — and possibly some future ones — are based on a book by Cormac O’Brien titled...Tags: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Politics, James Buchanan
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How are you celebrating William Henry Harrison's birthday?
The Baltimore SunOld Tippecanoe, the ninth president of the United States, was born 240 years ago today. He remains the president with the shortest term in office, having died a month after his inauguration. An elderly gentleman, he insisted on making a prolonged and...Tags: John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Republican Party, Martin van Buren
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War of 1812 Bicentennial: Kentucky enters the war
Editor's note: This is the unabridged version of the condensed article that appeared in the Jan. 17 Interior Journal. This article is the first in a series to commemorate the War of 1812 Bicentennial. The Congress of the United States has...
Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), George Washington, Andrew Jackson, National Government, Politics
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Inauguration 2013: Let's move the ceremony to L.A. next time
They had a nice little Inauguration Day on Monday in Washington. A bit nippy -- mid-20s to mid-40s -- but no Arctic blast of cold air or snow. That really nasty stuff is expected Tuesday. And that’s why it’s time to move this whole...
Tags: Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009), Harvey Weinstein, Eva Longoria, Super Bowl, Pneumonia
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Presidential candidates find new ways to sell message through music
The musical battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney heated up recently as Stevie Wonder released a funky new pro-Obama song called “Keep Moving Forward,” while Meat Loaf celebrated his support of Romney by belting a goofy “America...Tags: Political Candidates, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tea Party Movement, Politics, Music
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A stroll through history at Virginia's Berkeley Plantation
A place of beginnings and endings, Berkeley Plantation, about halfway between Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., is part of your life. Each time you celebrate Thanksgiving, there's an echo of the first Thanksgiving held here in 1619 (pre-Pilgrim, Berkeley...
Tags: Holidays, Charles City (Charles City, Virginia), Benjamin Harrison, Thanksgiving
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"Haunted D.C." at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site
INDIANAPOLIS — Looking for a spooky night out this Halloween season? Don’t miss Haunted D.C. at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, presented by Victorian Theatre by Candlelight and written by resident playwright James Trofatter. A...
Tags: Halloween, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Harrison, Arts and Culture
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Burb's Eye View: The library books an army of presidents
Any day now, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover will arrive at David Peterson's doorstep. At his Burbank home they'll join the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and Thomas Jefferson — most of the presidents, really, in a collection of figurines...Tags: William McKinley, George Washington, Pneumonia, Arts and Culture, Libraries
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