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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Media Industry, The Walt Disney Co., Concerts, Beaches
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Finalist for Archaeology Curator to Give Talk
Channel 2 NewsOne of three finalists for a job as curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North is scheduled to speak at a public seminar this week. University of Alaska Fairbanks officials say Josh Reuther will speak about the archaeology of the...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Anthropology
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With apartments gone, historians wonder what is below Harbor Square
HAMPTON — The derelict buildings, playing children and crime associated with the property's seedy visitors are long gone from the former Harbor Square site downtown. But as the city plans to redevelop the 17.7-acre tract — and contractors...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Arts and Culture, Hampton University
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: Theft, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, DePaul University, UNESCO, The Getty
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Turbine blade plummets in Ocotillo
Staff WriterOCOTILLO — A massive blade from one of the 112 wind turbines recently installed was found near a tower base Thursday, after plummeting onto the ground overnight, triggering safety concerns among officials and some residents. No injuries were...Tags: Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Siemens, Conservation, Arts and Culture
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Bill would protect water-authority lands from artifact looters
Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught. But a loophole in state law meant that looters didn't face consequences for their thievery on Lake County Water...
Tags: Ocala National Forest, Conservation, Natural Resources, Rick Scott, Politics
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A lost Spanish mission on the York River
When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia. Four times during the previous half-century, Spanish explorers probed the James and York rivers - and on Sept. 10, 1570 they planted a Jesuit mission...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Mexico, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Arts and Culture
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Poor potter, great pots at Yorktown
Virginia Lt. Gov. William Gooch had good reason to hide the truth when he made his annual report to the British Board of Trade in 1732. Though the Crown prohibited its colonies from manufacturing domestic goods, Gooch and other members of the...
Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Politics, Arts and Culture, National Parks, College of William and Mary
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New Jamestown exhibit explores colonist cannibalism
Nobody knows exactly when a nameless 14-year-old English girl met her end during the deadly Starving Time at Jamestown — or when she was butchered by a desperate fellow colonist driven to unthinkable extremes by hunger. She was already forgotten...
Tags: Historic Jamestowne, Hampton Roads, James River, Arts and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
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Don't ruin Robinson's Arch
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have mixed emotions about Natan Sharansky's proposed agreement to expand the public space at the Western Wall to include the currently secluded area known as Robinson's Arch. As a lifelong Conservative Jew, I applaud any plan...Tags: Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Judaism
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Cannibalism at Jamestown evidence unearthed
Archaeologists and forensic scientists working with human remains recovered at Historic Jamestowne last summer reported Wednesday that their follow-up studies have turned up the gruesome first physical evidence of the cannibalism that took place during...
Tags: Culture, Historic Jamestowne, Hampton Roads, Arts and Culture, Museum of Natural History
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WVU seeks volunteers to help curators with archaeological artifacts from across W.Va. in June
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University's Native American Studies Program needs volunteers this summer to help curators clean, number and package archaeological artifacts that have been collected from across the state. The artifacts are...Tags: Arts and Culture
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