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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has contracted with the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center to monitor cultural resources on about 24 acres of the 75.4-acre Mathy tract on Brice Prairie.
Many New Yorkers know about the bodies buried beneath Washington Square Park — remains belonging to thousands of impoverished residents who died more than two centuries ago.
Bakersfield, Calif. -- AT 10 minutes before noon on a Sunday it's a cattle call at the hotel-restaurant Noriega's here, with dozens of people crowded around the bar, drinking beer and greeting familiar faces. Red-faced cowboys mix with doughy city dwellers and families passing around babies, all surrounded by paintings of Basque men playing cards or handball.
U.S officials are talking with Pakistan about the possibility of striking in Baluchistan for the first time — a controversial move since it is outside the tribal areas — because that is where Afghan Taliban leaders are believed to hide. The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA’s drone program in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The tunnel stank, yet I could scarcely keep from leaping into it after my guide said, “You are now standing on the ruins of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.”
Congress is considering a bill that would lift restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba. Opponents say U.S. tourism dollars would help the Castro government hold on even longer. But many ordinary Cubans and dissidents, too, say that's not a reason to keep the ban in place.
Dave Matthews is keeping his plate full when he's not mocking Ozzy Osbourne on SNL
WASHINGTON — Two weeks ago in Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency sharpshooters killed eight people suspected of being militants of the Taliban and al-Qaida, and wounded two others in a compound that was said to be used for terrorist training.
Beloit College ranked second in the Midwest Conference in number of representatives on the 2009 Fall Academic All-MWC team released by the league office Wednesday.
Nearly every holiday season in Tovah Ross' memory has included gift-wrapping at the Cherry Hill Mall.During the annual fund-raiser for Camden County Hadassah, the Jewish women's service organization, Ross has sat at her mother's elbow and learned the tricks to tying a bow around a bowling ball and disguising a jogging stroller in snowman-covered paper.
BRISTOL - The land surrounding Mt. Hope has gone through many changes over centuries of history ? from a Native American stronghold to colonial farmland, an amusement park and even a missile base. Today, ?
On Martin Schoeller's film, all men are created equal. His portraits range from Britney Spears glamor shots to documentary photos of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, but they all share the same composition.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 2, 2009) - At the request of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and her husband, His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond, will undertake State visits to the United States of Mexico, from December 6 to 9, the Republic of Guatemala, from December 9 to 12, and ...
GROTON -- Members of the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) met Tuesday night to be informed that there would be a relatively modest slate of submissions vying for a share of more than $500,000 expected to be raised in this year's collection of a 3 percent surcharge on property taxes.
SUNY Oswego students will travel to India in January to learn firsthand about the major international challenge of human trafficking.
Musician and folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes died last week. She was 88 years old. (Audio: KPCC's Alex Cohen talks with Sabina Magliocco, the anthropology department chairwoman at Cal State Northridge, about Hawes' work.)
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