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Counting cards: NY collection includes 6,356 decks
The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics.
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Santa descendents meet today for oath
The grandsons of two of the more famous men to don Santa Claus suits plan to meet today in this southern Indiana town to sign and dedicate a newly created oath for the jolly gift-givers. Charles Howard of ...
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This week in Michigan history: Ford was named as new vice president
Many at the time considered him a dark horse candidate as President Richard Nixon mulled over who would succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
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The Wind in the Willows is one hundred years old this month. Kenneth Grahame's pastoral gem has been a reading staple for children since it first filtered its way into the consciousness of the reading public, ...
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Why Negative Ads are Good for Voters
Barack Obama has been "palling around with terrorists" and wants to teach 5-year-olds about sex? John McCain is "out of touch," in bed with lobbyists behind the housing-market meltdown and doesn't know ...
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Help needed to honour war victims
Residents in a County Durham town have been invited to contribute their war-time memorabilia to a remembrance wall.
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Willingboro: a half-century of suburbia
In 1958, builder William J. Levitt began construction on what would become an 11,000-home community in Burlington County.
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Thousands attend Indianapolis airport open house
Indianapolis International Airport's new terminal got its first public workout Saturday.
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The modern age of chemical weaponry began in World War I when German soldiers waited for the right wind and opened thousands of cylinders of chlorine gas along a four-mile front near Ypres, Belgium.
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Holland America Will Name Its 15th Ship the Nieuw Amsterdam
Holland America Line will reflect the glamor and history of New York City in the interior design of its 15th ship, which will be delivered in 2010.
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Obituaries published Oct.12, 2008
Ann Golinski SARATOGA SPRINGS - Ann Golinski, at the age of 89, joined loved ones on Oct.
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Emergency pros take hard look at when and how it's best to use high-profile air ambulance
A patient's life was on the line. Dr. Steve Rockoff was talking by phone to a Carson City Hospital doctor, trying to decide: Was the case serious enough to launch Spectrum Health's Aero Med helicopter from ...
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COLUMN: Why I'm voting third party
The presidential campaign has gotten so ridiculous lately that I'm considering going third party.
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Life as a target: Soldier served with Patton during war
"Got damn it's hot out here," the jokester said. Then Heltzel saw the three gold stars.
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Once Elected, Bets on How they Try to Take Obama Out?
Originally posted by Joseph Fink: quote: The "War Between The States" was about keeping the Union together.
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William L. Copland, 80, died Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at MedCentral Mansfield Hospital.
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Author retells familiar stories from female viewpoint
When Clintonville resident Lisa Klein published her first young-adult novel, Ophelia , her teenage and preteen sons weren't ready for the reaction.
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Algonquin celebrates history, fall season
Louise Nee leads a group through the Algonquin Cemetery during a Cemetery Walk given by the Algonquin Historic Commission Saturday.
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CRACKING OPEN HISTORY'S MOST FAMOUS JEWELS For Czar Alexander III, the Faberge Eggs were a token of love and affection, presented to his wife each Easter.
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Find more presidential history in the Midwest
The United States Vice Presidential Museum , 815 Warren St., Huntington, Ind. . Will it be Sarah Palin or Joe Biden who someday is commemorated here? This repository of vice presidential lore has a special ...
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