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Timothy Potts has ideas for Getty Museum
When Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September, he knew he was stepping into an anomaly of a job, unusual within the ranks of America's most prestigious museums. Other museum heads, bound by tight budgets, must essentially beg...
Tags: Museums, Finance, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Italy
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Maya 'doomsday' may actually be Sunday, archaeologist says
TULUM, Mexico – Hold on to your doomsday fever, folks, the Maya calendar date celebrated Friday as the “end of the world” might actually be off by two days – or a full year. The end of the 13th baktun cycle of the so-called...
Tags: Mexico, Arts and Culture, Caribbean Sea, Winter Solstice
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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: Kristi Noem, Environmental Issues, Finance, Arts and Culture, Tourism and Leisure
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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: Kristi Noem, Environmental Issues, Finance, Arts and Culture, Tourism and Leisure
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Mayan 2012 Apocalypse TV programming
Channel Guide MagazineUpdated Nov. 30, 2012, 12:31pm CT Dec. 21, 2012. There hasn't been so much interest in — and, in some cases, fear over — a date since 1999 and the impending approach of Y2K. Whether or not you believe in the supposed Mayan 2012 prediction that... -
Research Revealed Oldest Known Arctic Skin Boat
Channel 2 NewsThe remains of an umiak, which is a type of boat made out of dried animal skin, were discovered among the recently acquired Birnik collection at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. The remains have been dated at 1,000 years old, making these the...Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, Science, Science and Technology
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Local woman speculates about Stonehenge in novel
Name: K.P. (Karen) Robbins Age: 67 City in which you reside: Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Day job: Retired advertising agency president Book title: “The Stonehenge Scrolls” Genre: Historical fiction Synopsis of book: Ancient scrolls reveal the secrets...
Tags: Geography, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Book, Smithsonian Institution
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Filling in the blanks at James Fort
When a place reaches as far back as Jamestown, the dirt can teem with secrets. Nearly every time archaeologists open a hole on this ancient stretch of riverfront land, they find a jumbled puzzle of subterranean clues reflecting every change that has...
Tags: John Smith, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions
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Early Jamestown had way with mud
More than 400 years after America’s first permanent English settlement rose from the ground, archaeologists are combining local clay, loam and black needle rush grass in an experimental effort to recreate the unique method used to construct some...
Tags: John Smith, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture
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Civil War fort unearthed by William and Mary dig
When College of William and Mary president Benjamin Ewell returned home at the Civil War’s end, he found the Wren Yard violently transformed. Burned by Union troops in September 1862, the charred brick ruins of the Sir Christopher Wren Building...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions, West Point, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Probing for pioneering black school in Williamsburg
Stop by the corner of Prince George and Boundary streets on almost any morning and you’re likely to see the old brick walks busy with pedestrian traffic. Curious tourists shuffle past between Merchants Square and the Historic Area, mixing with...
Tags: Education, Arts and Culture, Students, Science and Technology, Colonial Williamsburg
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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....
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