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Group aims to restore 1915 schoolhouse, teach local history inside
When Martha Forth first saw the one-room rural schoolhouse where she would land her first teaching job in 1938, her heart sank. "I thought, I can't do this," recalled Forth, then 23 and a university graduate with a teaching credential from USC. The...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Arts and Culture
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‘Assassin’s Creed 3′ writer Corey May adds revolutionary details
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThe “Assassin's Creed” video game franchise has built its reputation on wedding action and adventure to history with fastidious attention ...... -
Somerset County's moonshining history
Daily American Staff WriterIt was known as White Mule, Skat, Stump Juice, Mountain Dew, Fire Water and Rot Gut. But what it meant was big business. Somerset County is no stranger to outlaw liquor. From pioneer days to Prohibition, moonshine has been a player in local trade,...Tags: Rebellions, Friedens, Arts and Culture, Moonshiners (tv program), Fayette County
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Scoreboard -- Nov. 27, 2012
Staff reports|TV SPORTS| |WEDNESDAY| Soccer -- Premiere League, West Ham at Manchester United, 1:55 p.m. (ESPN2). Men’s College Basketball -- Virginia at Wisconsin, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); George Washington at James Madison, 6 p.m. (NBCSN); Michigan State at...Tags: Basketball, Michael Higgins, College Sports, Kregg Lumpkin, Providence Friars
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Problems with zoning
With Route 31 zoning, decades of regress will follow. Responding to Virginia Malcolm concerning the recent zoning of the Route 31. My first question would be. Why do you withhold the name of the city of which you are a veteran member of its zoning...Tags: Politics, Elections, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning
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Open house to celebrate Claymont restoration
richardb@herald-mail.comAn open house celebration commemorating completion of a $300,000 restoration project plus the movement of 264 acres into permanent farmland protection status will be held Sunday at the Claymont Society’s main mansion from noon to 2 p.m. The 34-...Tags: Sociology, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Monumental undertaking
Tonight, we celebrate the season with the lighting of Baltimore's Washington Monument. But unless we take needed action, we are at risk of losing this festive tradition — along with one of our city's most iconic landmarks. Sadly, the monument...
Tags: Washington Monument, War of 1812, Arts, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Arts and Culture
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Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at 88; war hero
When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu. He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't. Japanese...Tags: Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, U.S. Congress, Daniel Akaka, Democratic Party
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Buyers revel in bargains at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Treasure Sale
alnotarianni@aol.comIn a scene reminiscent of a more-civilized Black Friday, shoppers packed the front hall of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, got on their marks and watched the clock. With a minute and 30 seconds left to go before the 1 p.m. half-price sale,...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Arts, Washington, DC, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Museums
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Lower taxes, less spending is best formula for recovery
President Barack Obama, largely due to his upbringing and background, sincerely thinks he is leading this country in the right direction. However, hard facts powerfully indicate that he is leading us in the wrong direction. The Obama administration...Tags: Politics, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Government, National Government
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Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...
Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Trials, Brian Dennehy, Gerald Ford, Theodore Roosevelt
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WDBJ7 goes inside the White House for a behind the scenes tour
Anchor/ReporterIt was the biggest home in America at one time until after the Civil War. WDBJ7 Anchor Hollani Davis was one of eight reporters invited by the Obama administration earlier this month to take a personal tour of the White House. The President invitation...Tags: Politics, Harry S. Truman, Thomas Jefferson, Business, White House
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