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Gifts to historical society continue
The Bell Pottery Collection was given to the Washington County Historical Society by Frank W. and Roy V. Mish in honor of Mary Vernon Mish. The first telephone service at the Miller House cost $4.80 a month, and installation cost $6. In August...Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, Finance, Maryland Historical Trust, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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In Theory: Should secessionists succeed?
More than 750,000 Americans have signed a petition to let their states secede from the U.S.A. since the Nov. 6 election, including people from Alaska, Maryland, Texas, Iowa and Vermont. And many of them, or at least their leaders, are claiming they're...Tags: Washington, DC, Corporate Crime, Politics, Dick Durbin, Separation of Church and State
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Monumental undertaking
Tonight, we celebrate the season with the lighting of Baltimore's Washington Monument. But unless we take needed action, we are at risk of losing this festive tradition — along with one of our city's most iconic landmarks. Sadly, the monument...
Tags: Annapolis, George Washington, Baltimore School for the Arts, Arts and Culture, Mount Vernon Place
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Guilford centennial celebrates a colorful history
Larry Perl's interesting article about the centennial of Baltimore's Guilford neighborhood would have been even more so had he touched more on the history of the neighborhood ("Guilford ready to ring in New Year with its centennial celebrations," Dec. 28)...Tags: Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), War of 1812
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Marcella Jane DeGraeve, 88
Marcella Jane DeGraeve, 88, of Charlevoix, passed away Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at Birchwood Tendercare in Traverse City. She was born on Feb. 27, 1924, in Wichita, Kan., the daughter of Earl and Opal (Baker) Brooks. In 1943, she married George DeGraeve...Tags: Mayflower Voyage (1620)
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Giving the gift of literature
They're meaningful, beautiful, portable, and, by the standards of modern gift giving, appealingly inexpensive. They also ship and wrap easily, and allow me to put my money where my heart is: art, ideas and the written word. So why did I hesitate for so...
Tags: Chicago Public Library, Libraries, Life of Pi (movie), Abraham Lincoln, Arts and Culture
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Waynesboro celebrates Memorial Park upgrades
richardb@herald-mail.comIn 2010, Waynesboro borough officials applied for a $45,000 state grant to make improvements to the town’s nine-acre Memorial Park. On Friday afternoon, they cut a ribbon in honor of the upgrades that grant plus some local in-kind contributions...Tags: High School Sports, World War I (1914-1918), Sports, Babe Ruth, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Jon Meacham discusses Thomas Jefferson, hero and hypocrite
In today's age of political gridlock in the nation's capital, the case of Thomas Jefferson, as much as that of any American president, could illuminate a way forward. That's the underlying premise of “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,”...Tags: Politics, Bill Clinton, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Authors
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2011-12 Tribune Scholar-Athlete Team: Marian Central's Luke Waggoner
Luke Waggoner
Marian Central Catholic
Golf
Class rank: 5 of 169.
Athletics: 2012 Class 2A state golf runner-up; four-time individual state qualifier; McHenry County Junior Golf Association Senior Boys Player of the Year (2010).
Academics: National...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Josh Groban, PGA Tour, Sports, Golf Channel (tv network)
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‘Assassin’s Creed 3′ writer Corey May adds revolutionary details
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThe “Assassin's Creed” video game franchise has built its reputation on wedding action and adventure to history with fastidious attention ...... -
‘Assassin’s Creed 3′ review: An alternate history, with footnotes
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comLong before “Assassin's Creed 3” gets going – multiple hours before players even meet the part-Native American protagonist Connor – ...... -
Symbol of PA gas drilling opposition succumbs to offer of money
You have to give Denise Dennis some credit. She did not come cheap. The price tag she put on her virtue is about the same as the amount Gov. Tom Corbett took to sell his soul — or Pennsylvania's soul, that is — to the gas drilling robber...Tags: George Washington, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Revolutions, Tom Corbett
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