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IT'S A 'NATURAL': THE 25TH STATE
Arizona Daily Sun· 24 hours 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. Arkansas’...
Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 4 hours agoCicada chaos is flourishing and flying. Trillions of once-hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the...
How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 13 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 ...
MY AMISH HOME: A good time for a flat tire
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier· 10 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...
Cicadas emerging in north Arkansas, periodical brood has 13-year cycle | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 4 days agoSince late April, Northwest Arkansas and other stretches of north Arkansas have been home to a new...
Obed Calvaire's Album is Empowered Equally by Haiti's People, Past and Present
Digital Journal· 1 day agoHaitians are the first African Republic population to obtain independence. After a revolution lasting more than 12 years, Haiti declared independence from colonial rule and enslavement for all ...
Remembering the 1904 Fort Shaw Indian Girls' Basketball Team
KRTV Great Falls· 6 days agoThe Fort Shaw girls basketball team made history when they traveled to St. Louis, Missouri for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the ...
It's a bug's (love) life
Herald & Review· 6 days agoEvery picture tells a story, which is how we discover fascinating details about the love life of those bug-eyed freaks emerging in their millions to fly...
Waterloo native takes reins at Oklahoma City school district
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 5 days agoA career educator from Waterloo has been appointed director of the second-largest school district in the state of Oklahoma. Jamie C. Harrington Polk, a 1980 graduate of Waterloo West High School ...
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 ...
