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Resourceful traveler
The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide Countryman Press, $19.95 In this mammoth guide to Civil War sites, author Michael Weeks visited more than 400 places and drove thousands of miles. Weeks' enthusiasm for his subject in this vast undertaking shows on...Tags: History, The Beatles (music group), Kensington, Grant Wood, Stonewall Jackson
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Reagan $50 bill? Move over U.S. Grant
The Swampby Mark Silva Move over Ulysses S. Grant (though the South tried this before.) A North Carolina congressman has a new candidate for the face of the $50 bill: Ronald Reagan. It's a Republican -- Rep. Patrick McHenry -- who......Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Ronald Reagan, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Barack Obama, Democratic Party
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Ronald Reagan vs. Ulysses Grant or what's-her-name
Top of the TicketA debate opens on the $50 bill -- and a revealing airplane decal.... -
Brand X Files: Sacha Baron Cohen bumped from Oscars. Sarah Palin gets grabby. Destroying planet may save it?
Brand X"Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen is pulled from Oscars slot for fear he will upset "Avatar" director James Cameron: "Let's just say that Cameron isn't known to be, shall we say, 'self-deprecating,' " said an insider. "Creative differences" cited, natch.... -
Where can you find a $2 bill?
Steve ChapmanWhile reporting a recent column on the proposal to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, I called the American Numismatic Association to educate myself on the history of American currency. During the course of our...... -
Reagan $50: Most say keep the change
The Swampby Mark Silva Now that the $100 bill is getting a facelift to make it more impervious to counterfeiters, the future of the $50 note comes around again. The bill bearing the visage of Ulysses S. Grant already has gotten......Tags: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Democratic Party, North Carolina
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Murphys rings in St. Patrick's Day with green wine
Forget green beer this year. In this grape-rich Calaveras County hamlet, they'll be celebrating with green wine. Not surprisingly, a town with a name like Murphys takes St. Patrick's celebrations pretty seriously. Tucked away in the rolling Sierra Nevada...Tags: Restaurants, Bonnie Raitt, St. Patrick's Day, Calaveras County (California), Nevada
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Truth, and other overrated ideas
Special to The TimesWhen I was a kid, I lied a lot. Lying, for me, was easier than learning to tie my shoes. I could tell lies like my best friend, Dave, could eat French fries — by the fistful. When I was in junior high school, I used to cut class and take the bus...Tags: White House, Jonathan Demme, Music, The Godfather (movie), The West Wing (tv program)
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Who wants a deep-dish Olympics?
patt.morrison@latimes.comTHE LAST TIME L.A. landed the Olympics, it was because nobody else wanted them. In 1977, when bids were due to host the 1984 Summer Games, the International Olympic Committee was still waiting by its mailbox in Switzerland for an application from some...Tags: International Olympic Committee, Film Festivals, University of Minnesota, Soldier Field, Olympic Games
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Lincoln: Focus on the real foe
HAROLD HOLZER won a Lincoln Prize for his last book, "Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President."PRESIDENT BUSH has often cited Lincolnian resolve to justify staying the course in Iraq. He takes inspiration from the knowledge that Abraham Lincoln too endured failure, frustration and dissent, not to mention more American casualties on a single day...Tags: New York, Abraham Lincoln, Iraq, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Ready for their close-ups?
This can't be a joke because there's a writers strike on and jokes are out for the duration. So in all unscripted seriousness, I ask, could Hollywood really be smarter than Washington? Is it possible that movie people are savvier than political people?...Tags: Georgia, Thomas Jefferson, Politics, Primaries, Academy Awards
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Thanks to these hotels, it's politics as usual
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMaybe it's not so astonishing to be reminded that the first famous "smoke-filled room" in American politics was a hotel room. Surely it's no shock to learn that hotel was in Chicago. But it was a surprise, and a welcome one, to learn in a recent New York...Tags: Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Los Angeles Times, Washington (U.S. state)
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