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Day Trips from the Lehigh Valley
DAY TRIPPIN' •Eagles/Carolina pre-season game, Aug. 15. $80. Whitehall-Coplay PTO, Rhonda, 610-266-1995. •"Noah," lunch at Shady Maple, July 24. $88. Landis Valley Village, Wilbur Chocolate, Sturgis Pretzels, lunch, Aug. 20. $74. "Motown,"...Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, Little League Baseball, Broadway Theater, Physical Conditions, Coplay
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder
It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather's spirit was content in the Pennsylvania town where his body has lain for six decades. "Grandpa...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, U.S. Congress
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Rustic simplicity
Laura del Principe is not a Top Chef or an Iron Chef. She doesn't have tattoos running up and down her arms or a line of cookware created in her name. Plistia, the restaurant she runs with her husband, Cesidio Decina, is tucked away in the small...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Landforms, Restaurants, Lasagna, Meatballs
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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...
Tags: Conservation, Landforms, Ecosystems, Mountains, Environmental Issues
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Today in History
Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On May 19, 1943, in his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's...Tags: George W. Bush, Crime, Law and Justice, Hillary Clinton, Peter Mayhew, Emergency Incidents
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Villagers Seek Removal of Old Military Containers
Channel 2 NewsThe village of Anaktuvuk Pass has asked the National Park Service for permission to remove rusty fuel drums left behind by the Department of Defense more than 50 years ago. Most of the debris is located on Native allotments or Arctic Slope Regional...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense
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An inside-out adventure canyoneering in Utah
SPRINGDALE, Utah — There comes a moment when you step backward off a cliff, clinging to a rope the width of your pinkie, and ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?" It's inevitable. Fear of heights (and its close cousin, fear of falling) is as deeply...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, North Fork, Google Inc., Travel, Climbing
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May 13 Letters: Hampton budgets, Fort Monroe
Point of no return Hampton's tax-and-spend leadership has once again demonstrated its contempt for the taxpaying citizen by increasing the real estate tax rate 19 percent. In these lean times when such a huge raise is unheard of, our liberal leaders...Tags: Fort Monroe, Conservation, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Homes, Budgets and Budgeting
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Two essential Gettysburg guides
GET THESE GUIDES! •Download a copy of the Gettysburg 150th Anniversary Commemorative Events Guide (http://www.nps.gov/gett/planyourvisit/upload/GETT-150-CommemorativeGuide.pdf) for a comprehensive overview of programming and events at the... -
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: Arts and Culture, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Archaeology, Executive Branch, Government
May 19, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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