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Saturday nature walks: Bluebirds and wildlife watching part of free outdoor events
Feb. 16 is your chance to take a nice nature walk in upper York County and James City County. Both nature walks encompass information about bluebirds, which are beginning to look for nesting places, so you can learn how to attract bluebirds to your own...
Tags: York County (Virginia), York (York, Pennsylvania), American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Rep. Wittman has new Yorktown office
U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland, announced Friday that his Yorktown office has moved to the historic Somerwell House. The 300-year-old Somerwell House is located at 401 Main St. in Yorktown. “I am proud to represent America’s First...Tags: Hampton Roads, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Art Callaham: Some gave all; some just want it all
Several folks have told me they liked some of the columns where I blended retrospective events with a current topic. I wrote three columns about the topic of leadership and used historical stories and events from the Civil War era to emphasis specific...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, U.S. House of Representatives, Fiction, France
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Map: Siege of Yorktown
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Oct 10, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles TimesGeorge Washington, in war and peace
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWashington A Life Ron Chernow Penguin Press: 906 pp., $40 On Dec. 14, 1799, an ominous, fog-like gloom hung over Mount Vernon. Sixty-seven-year-old George Washington was dying. The ex-president, his doctors believed, was suffering from "quinsy" (a...Tags: John Jay, U.S. Electoral College, Executive Branch, Alexander Hamilton, Fidel Castro
Mar 23, 2003 |Story| Chicago TribuneEmblem of truce's historical hue
Tribune staff reporterWhite is the color of war's ending. Battlefields are multihued with the red of blood, the black of sleepless nights. But in the end, they are marked by little patches of white. Bedsheets hang from civilians' windows. Laying down their weapons, beaten and...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), Adolf Hitler, Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Battle of Yorktown (1781) Photos
This collection of scenes from the 1862 siege of Yorkto...
(April 27, 2012)
Union cartographer Robert Knox Sneden drew this map of...
(April 27, 2012)
Maps from the 1862 Siege of Yorktown
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