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McDonogh wrestling cruises to easy win in Raymond B. Oliver Invitational
At the Raymond B. Oliver Invitational at McDonogh this weekend, teams and wrestlers checked out the competition to get a read on how everyone looks. What everyone at the tournament confirmed is the Eagles are the team to beat this winter. McDonogh...Tags: Wrestling, Georgetown, Sprague
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'Pictures of Sound' resurrects sounds from centuries past
The stated goal of the new combination book and compact disc "Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980" is impressively brash: "It's a collection that seeks to challenge existing assumptions about what historical audio itself is,"...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln
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Two schools have a shot at grant funding in national competition
Two local elementary schools are in the lead pack of candidates for a $50,000 grant that administrators say could go a long way in improving student life and classroom learning. For a chance at winning the grant sponsored by Clorox, the schools must...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Education, Students, Teaching and Learning
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MADE OF GLASS: After 60 years, Corning's Harrodsburg plant remains key to company's global success
tkleffman@amnews.comHARRODSBURG — There is a famous scene early in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” where young Dustin Hoffman’s character, returning home after finishing college, gets a bit of unsolicited career advice from one of his father’s...Tags: New Products, Material Science, Economy, Business and Finance, Engineering, Dustin Hoffman
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Stanford Ovshinsky dies at 89; inventor founded new field of electronics
Stanford Ovshinsky was not a household name like Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein, but he was often compared to them, for good reason. He invented the nickel-metal hydride battery, which has powered high-tech items such as cellphones, laptop computers...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, New Products, Electronics, Manufacturing and Engineering, Newspaper and Magazine
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Edison Ponograph Recording Offers Glipse Into Past
Associated PressIt's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance,...Tags: Music, Henry Ford, General Electric Company, Museums, Entertainment
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Soundtrack to history: 1878 Edison audio unveiled
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a...
Tags: Music, Henry Ford, General Electric Company, Museums, Entertainment
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Glendale Unified scores on state test improve
Glendale Unified improved its overall score on the all-important Academic Performance Index that measures student achievement, according to state data released Wednesday. The overall score improved by eight points from last year's 850 mark to 858, well...
Tags: School Examinations, Academic Progress
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Columbus undeserving of holiday
Columbus Day passed, and we were forced to celebrate a half-truth. As a 10th grader, I appreciate honoring extraordinary individuals to look up to, and it's undeniable that Christopher Columbus connected the Old World with a new one. However, society...Tags: Hispaniola, Columbus Day, George W. Bush, Harriet Tubman
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Ormond Beach: The pace slows at the 'Birthplace of Speed'
Universal Press SyndicateORMOND BEACH -- A hundred years ago, car racing got its start here when two automobile pioneers, Ransom E. Olds and Alexander Winton, squared off on Ormond's hard-packed beach sands. Auto racing long ago moved to a banked speedway 5 miles south in...Tags: Will Rogers, Christmas, Campbell (Osceola, Florida), Al Capone, Holidays
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Obama never took Business 101
According to President Barack Obama, entrepreneurs and small business owners cannot take credit for their inventions or business success because their accomplishments were only made possible by the government's investments in infrastructure. Is this a...Tags: Henry Ford, Barack Obama, Small Businesses, Benjamin Franklin
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Destination America aims to bring us together, with bacon
Tony's I-75 Restaurant in Birch Run, Mich., is proud home of what might well be the nation's largest BLT. Each sandwich contains a pound of bacon — about 25 to 30 deep-fried strips — stacked about 8 inches high between two slabs of white...
Tags: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Manhattan (New York City), Food Network (tv network), Cooking Shows (genre), Hot Dogs
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