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Civil War to come alive
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis never had the chance to meet each other as leaders during a divided America, but they're going to this weekend. The town? Costa Mesa. The place? Fairview Park. The occasion? "The town hall meeting that never...
Tags: Historic Reenactments, Wars and Interventions, American Civil War (1861-1865), Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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LinkedIn rolls out new, personalized mobile app
LinkedIn wants to give its mobile app a spark, and the social network is doing so by simplifying and customizing it to individually fit each of its users. The business-focused social network rolled out the major app update late Wednesday night. The...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Arts and Culture, Culture, Social Media, LinkedIn Corp.
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In Guatemala, a twist as genocide trial nears end
MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...Tags: Dismemberment, Armed Conflicts, Civil Rights, Lawyers, Genocide
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Arts for Learning workshop planned
The Interfaith Service Coalition has partnered with the Hancock Arts Council to obtain a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a result, a Young Audiences/Arts for Learning workshop will be offered to children in the Hancock area Saturday....Tags: International Speedway Corp., Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Culture, Anglicanism
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When public infrastructure goes private
Consider some of the things that have bound our nation together: Universal postal service at a flat rate, whether you live in Santa Monica or Sitka, Alaska. Interstate highways, built with taxpayer funds and free of tolls. Regulated phone and electric...
Tags: Finance, Aspen Institute, Economy, Business and Finance, Satellite and Cable Service, Mail Order Industry
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Slain Chinese student's latest U.S. touchstone was watching race
BOSTON — Lu Lingzi learned Sunday that she had passed a major exam for her studies at Boston University. The next morning, the test and a major project behind her, the 23-year-old Chinese graduate student and two friends headed over to watch the...
Tags: Sports, Krystle Campbell, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Arts and Culture, Students
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The decline of terrorism
Our era is known as the Age of Terror, and no wonder. Twelve years ago, the United States suffered its worst terrorist attack ever, and since then, we have lived under the shadow of atrocities designed to frighten as well as kill. The bombs that went...
Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Ku Klux Klan, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda
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Chambersburg church to show 'The Glorious and the Brave'
“The Glorious and the Brave” will be shown Saturday at 7 p.m. at The Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring, 221 N. Main St. in Chambersburg. The stories of eyewitnesses and participants in history come to life in this film that chronicles the...Tags: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Culture, World War II (1939-1945)
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Facebook rolling out redesign for iPhone, iPad apps
Facebook is releasing an update to its iPhone and iPad apps Tuesday that will include many of the new features it has promised over the last several months. The social network said the apps will now feature the redesigned News Feed it announced in...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Arts and Culture, Culture, Apple iPad, Social Media
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Thatcher made history by standing firm
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television — and the fact that the telegenic Mrs. Thatcher had a "certain...Tags: Richard Nixon, Conservative Party (UK), Parties and Movements, Gerald Ford, Elections
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Syrian opposition begins rewriting history in textbooks
ANTAKYA, Turkey — In newly printed textbooks at dozens of Syrian refugee schools, a small piece of Middle East geography has been amended. Seventy-five years ago, Turkey annexed the northern Syrian territory of Hatay against the will of Syria, but...
Tags: Social Sciences, Wars and Interventions, Jihad, Teachers, Saudi Arabia
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Cellphone carriers face off at Coachella festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival starts Friday, and that means hundreds of thousands of smartphone users will descend on Indio. And when you get that many people in one location, there's bound to be some connectivity issues. That's why the...
Tags: Computer Hardware, T-Mobile, Apple iPhone, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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