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In the Past: Bike thefts in Logansport rise in 1974
Pharos-Tribune· 6 days agoAt least twenty Indiana National Guard members from Logansport and Cass County will soon be departing for Afghanistan. There has been no movement toward...
Amboy, population 0 — a Mojave Desert ghost town and Americana icon fights to survive
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAmboy has been beset by a series of crises that stretch back more than half a century. But owner...
Why is downtown Charlotte called ‘uptown’? What to know about its history
Charlotte Observer· 2 days agoTransportation: A railroad builder is a symbol for the city’s status as a railroad hub, the number...
Sigmund Rolat, Who Used His Wealth to Memorialize Polish Jews, Dies at 93
New York Times· 5 days agoSigmund Rolat, a Polish Holocaust survivor who tapped the wealth he accumulated as a businessman in...
Glancing Back for June 11: 911 communications center damaged by flood water
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier· 3 days agoHuss, a member of the paint gang on the west end of the Big Four was instantly killed when struck by...
Reported birth of rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park fulfills Lakota prophecy
RockinghamNow.com, Eden and Reidssville· 1 day agoThe reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned ...
The Bitter Drink
Esquire via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLegendary novelist John Dos Passos tells the story of economist Thorstein Veblen, the outspoken Progressive Era critic of capitalism who coined the phase...
June 7, 1953 | The Tragedy of the Madsen Family
KMTV 3 News Now Omaha· 5 days agoAbout 45 miles north of Kearney lays the small town of Arcadia, almost right in the middle of Nebraska. With a population of just over 300, Arcadia is a town in Valley County, southwest of Ord ...
Robert Miller: How crossbreeding trees in CT could revive the grand American chestnut
Stamford Advocate· 6 days agoIn the late 1800s, nursery owners and tree growers imported the chestnut tree from China. Within a half-century, it decimated the American chestnut — the grandest tree of the eastern forest, ...
Faith | A father born in a Nazi concentration camp had this wisdom for his Tri-Cities son
Tri-City Herald· 20 hours ago“My father—his name is Andrew—had only a few memories up until age 5,” Adam Hrebeniuk of Kennewick said as he thought back on his family’s history during World War II. “He remembers standing ...