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Civil War sailors laid to rest, 151 years later
Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members'...
Tags: Hatteras, Abraham Lincoln, Unions, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace
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Mexico finds fire-god figure at top of Pyramid of the Sun
MEXICO CITY -- Did the rulers of the ancient city of Teotihuacan dedicate their largest pyramid to the god of fire, the so-called old god with a signature beard and fire atop his head? Mexican archaeologists announced this week that a figure of the god,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Mexico
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River exploration, archaeology and more at Robinson Nature Center camps
Summer break finds many kids sleeping in, riding bikes and splashing in the pool. But it’s not every day you come across a pastime like Autumn Boit’s. “Yesterday I skipped lunch to clean artifacts,” the Ellicott City fourth-...
Tags: Ellicott City, Arts and Culture
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Richard III horror story: Axed in head, stabbed in rear, bones dug up
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been updated. Please see note at the bottom for details. King Richard III has not been treated ...... -
Getty Museum to return Hades terracotta head to Sicily
A terracotta head depicting the Greek god Hades that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired in 1985 is being voluntarily sent back to Sicily, the museum has announced. Getty officials said that the museum has worked with officials from Sicily during the last...
Tags: Italy, The Getty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists, Sculpture
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Petroglyphs stolen from sacred eastern Sierra site recovered
L.A. NOWPetroglyph panels cut and chiseled off an eastern Sierra rock art site sacred to Native Americans have been recovered by federal investigators, U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials announced Thursday. The suspected thieves have not been identified and... -
Casual ambience on the Aegean
ISTANBUL, Turkey — We slipped out of Istanbul at dusk, gliding across the Bosporus strait toward the Aegean Sea, Asia on the left bank, Europe on the right, four masts towering 204 feet overhead, polished teak floors underfoot, the notes of Buddy...
Tags: Restaurants, Windstar Cruises, Tourism and Leisure, Cruise Line Ports, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Was Mexican prison warden's kidnap retaliation for penal reforms?
World NowThree years ago, when the armed gang showed up at Cieneguillas prison, they managed to free 53 inmates -- including killers, kidnappers and drug cartel gunmen. Not a shot was fired, and the warden was arrested on suspicion that it was an inside job.... -
Google Street View now available for Mexico archaeological sites
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Bones found in hunt for King Richard III's remains
World NowArchaeologists digging in central England for the remains of Richard III, the king immortalized as a murderous tyrant by William Shakespeare, have found bones that in many ways match his profile –- literally.... -
Search for grave of King Richard III to be extended
World NowBritish archaeologists searching for the grave of King Richard III are given an extra week after reporting promising findings beneath a parking lot in central England. Richard was killed in battle in 1485, but the whereabouts of the his remains have... -
Panel backs 1.5% tourism tax
PIERRE - Dozens of advocates turned out Thursday at the state Capitol to urge legislators to permanently set South Dakota's tourism tax at 1.5 percent. But one person they didn't convince during the hearing by the House Taxation Committee was its...Tags: Finance, Arts, Regional Authority, Dennis Daugaard, Government
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