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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: Safety of Citizens, Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Media Industry, Tennessee Volunteers
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Exhibit explores Powhatan's village
The first time Lynn Ripley reached down and coaxed a piece of broken pottery from the dirt at her newly purchased York River farm, she just trying to tidy up the grounds. But as the years passed, the Gloucester woman turned up so many arrowheads...
Tags: College of William and Mary, Science and Technology, Jamestown Settlement, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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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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Delay in mine project shadows hopes for Afghan economy
McClatchy Foreign StaffKABUL, Afghanistan The giant copper mine that the Afghan government has made the centerpiece of its plans for building an economy nearly from scratch is at least five years behind schedule, and the state-owned Chinese company that won the bidding has...Tags: National Government, Economy, Business and Finance, China, Politics, Government
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For people who dig local history
Moscow-Pullman Daily NewsUniversity of Idaho students and faculty, along with community members, learned about and celebrated local history at the UI Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology annual open house Saturday. More than 20 people attended the event, which included a...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Anthropology
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Archaeological survey set for unmarked Mother Bethel cemetery
The Philadelphia InquirerIt's not that the old Mother Bethel Church burial ground has been lost, exactly. How does one lose a place for the dead? James Champion, an original church trustee, dead of tuberculosis, was buried there in 1813. Stephen Laws, another founder, succumbed...Tags: Rituals, Religion and Belief, Tuberculosis, Lone (music group), Family
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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: College of William and Mary, Crime, Law and Justice, Hampton Roads Transit, Hampton University, Justice System
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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: DePaul University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UNESCO, University of California, Los Angeles, Prosecution
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BRIEF: Three course choices available
Daily Gazette, Sterling, Ill.An archaeology field school and archaeological dig will take place this summer at Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, 203 E. Seminary St. Course choices are Archaeology and Historic Preservation from June 10-12, Archaeological Site...Tags: 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: Natural Resources, Crime, Law and Justice, Endangered Species, Rick Scott, Alan Hays
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Caltrans dig near Novato unearths Miwok artifacts
The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif.ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE been huddled along Highway 101 north of Novato for the past month sifting the dirt for clues about how humans survived hundreds of years ago. Arrowheads, parts of grinding bowls, stone tools and shells are some of what was...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, California Department of Transportation, Seafood, Arts and Culture, Foods and Beverages
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Johnson Boat Works site yields bits of White Bear Lake's past
Star TribuneEven as the future is starting to take shape on the site of the old Johnson Boat Works on the west shore of White Bear Lake, a small group of volunteers digging through dirt and rubble under a glaring sun Thursday were toiling to form a picture of its...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Lifestyle and Leisure, Star Sailing, Sailing, Hunting
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