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"End of Serenity" to be displayed aboard USS Somerset
Daily American Staff Writer"End of Serenity," the famous photograph taken by Indian Lake resident Val McClatchey on Sept. 11, 2001, will find a home aboard the USS Somerset. The photo depicts a smoke plume above a red barn near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. A...Tags: New York City, Washington, DC, Museums, Human Interest, U.S. Navy
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Ex-Microsoft exec living the boomer fantasy: Meaningful work
Patty Stonesifer sits cross-legged on the floor of a preschool classroom, her hands dripping with purple watercolor paint as she makes small block prints with the help of a 4-year-old who expounds on the proper technique to dip and print. In a flash of...
Tags: Social Issues, Religion and Belief, George W. Bush, Amazon.com Inc., Bill Gates
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Smithsonian exhibit ends Sunday
The Smithsonian Institution exhibit in Ellendale, N.D., which has been seen by more than 800 people since it opened May 4, will close on Sunday. The exhibit, called “Key Ingredients: American by Food,” is set up in the Ellendale Opera...Tags: Politics, Food Industry, Salt, Lobbying, Arts and Culture
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, State of the Union Address, Timonium, Technology, Halethorpe
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Mexican artist from Coral Springs wins American Latino Museum design contest
Whether painting for the faithful or family and friends, Ana Maria Villegas' art has been a constant source of motivation. Now she hopes her paintings will help inspire thousands of people like her. The Coral Springs housewife has won the 2013 Friends...Tags: Washington, DC, Fine Artists, U.S. Congress, Mexico, Social Issues
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A virtual milestone
Library hounds, research heads and history buffs, Robert Darnton has been reading your diary. Darnton, the university librarian at Harvard University, envisioned a digital library available free of charge to the public that would provide online access...
Tags: The Getty, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Photography, Yale University
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Rice's fossil pit is still making history
Like a lot of other local landmarks on the Peninsula, Rice's fossil pit off Harris Creek Road in Hampton was nationally and even internationally known because of its high-profile links to the past. Numerous times during the roughly 30 years it was open,...
Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Museum of Natural History, Paleontology, Science and Technology
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Tips for getting that six-pack:The new rules of ab training
Ask most exercisers what they would like to change most about the way they look, and dollars to doughnuts they’ll say they want better abs. Men and women alike strive for that tight, toned set of abs that could be put on display at the Smithsonian...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Kevin Hunt: Where to find free downloadable music
The Hartford CourantThe toughest thing to find on the Internet, besides a phone number for eBay, might be free downloadable music. Everyone's buying music at iTunes or Amazon.com or streaming it at Spotify, Slacker or Pandora. When pride of ownership at no cost matters,...Tags: Radio Industry, Music, Arts and Culture, Pitbull (music artist), Radio
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Declaring Wright Brothers Not First Doesn't Really Fly
This was not the year for nonsense at the Capitol. Nevertheless, this session included a bill calling for a day to honor "the first powered flight" by Gustave Whitehead. The debate over whether the German immigrant was first to fly a powered aircraft is...Tags: Kitty Hawk, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Newington, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Maryland's Katie Schwarzmann wins second straight Tewaaraton Award
Katie Schwarzmann became the fourth two-time winner of the Tewaaraton Award Thursday. The Maryland senior midfielder and Cornell's Rob Pannell were honored as the top players in collegiate lacrosse Thursday night at the 13th-annual award ceremony at...
Tags: Syracuse Orange, Lacrosse, Atlantic Coast Conference, Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Questions and answers for Jamestown cannibalism case
Few archaeological finds have been as sensational as the first physical evidence of cannibalism unearthed at Historic Jamestowne in 2012 and announced in a riveting press conference at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History on...
Tags: Historic Jamestowne, Museum of Natural History, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Cannibalism
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