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Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
The Post-Star· 8 hours agoCicada chaos is flourishing and flying. Trillions of once-hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the...
IT'S A 'NATURAL': THE 25TH STATE
Arizona Daily Sun· 1 day agoOn June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state. The United States acquired the land from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803< ...
How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 17 hours agoOn October 27, 1815, Prospect Robbins arrived by boat at the point in the alluvial swamps where the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers meet. Both surveyors were veterans—Brown a captain, Robbins ...
Off the Beaten Trail: Walking in the path of American pioneers along the Oregon Trail
Estes Park Trail Gazette· 4 days agoDozens of interpretive signs share information from Missouri to Oregon about the challenges...
MY AMISH HOME: A good time for a flat tire
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier· 14 hours agoNo heavy stuff, but at least I can be my husband’s taxi, do my cleaning job, my own laundry. Periodical cicadas enthusiast Roger McMullan, who is the...
Ghost on the hill | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 6 days agoIt looms over historic downtown Hot Springs like a ghost. Built by the federal government as the Army-Navy Hospital, it once was among the top employers in the state. Hot Springs already had ...
