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D214 to hold classes on Veterans Day for first time in 2014
Township High School District 214 students will have class on Veterans Day for the first time in the fall of 2014. The memorial is observed on Nov. 11 of each year as a federal holiday, but a state law has allowed individual school districts to decide...
Tags: Pulaski Day, Students, Arlington Heights, Teaching and Learning, Veterans Day
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Illinois State profs find missing page from Lincoln's 'ciphering book'
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.NORMAL - Nerida Ellerton trembled as she held a page from a "ciphering book" written by a teenage Abraham Lincoln as she did research in the archives of Houghton Library at Harvard University. However, the Illinois State University mathematics professor...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Harvard, Illinois State University, Science and Technology, Education
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Harvey Fierstein is marathon man of awards season
An entertainment kingpin named Harvey with a voracious appetite for awards campaigning? And an involvement in multiple hit productions? Hollywood veterans would immediately think of Harvey Weinstein. But the description fits another Harvey: Fierstein,...
Tags: Theater, Tom Hanks, Music, Slavery, Times Square
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New on DVD: 'Oz the Great and Powerful,' 'Snitch'
The Fresno BeeA young man faces giant problems while a young woman has some big problems of her own in this week's new DVD releases. "Jack the Giant Slayer," Grade B: A young farmer (Nicholas Hoult) opens a gateway to a world of giants. This is the latest film...Tags: Bruce Willis, Television, Justin Bieber, Christopher Gorham, Warm Bodies (movie)
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Editorial: Quinn should sign the Peoples Gas bill
The company that supplies natural gas to Chicago has a problem, which means its customers have a problem. Peoples Gas delivers its product through some 2,000 miles of pipes that thread under the city's streets and sidewalks. Some of that pipe has been...
Tags: Executive Branch, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Regional Authority, Environmental Issues
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How to spell success
The annual ritual known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee came and went last week, with kids spelling words that, I suspect, many with graduate degrees couldn't spell. The winner was Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills,...
Tags: Cal Thomas, Bayside (Queens, New York), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Keke Palmer, Elections
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Letters: Government surveillance and safety
Re "Brave new world of snooping," Editorial, June 7 Aldous Huxley works well, and let's not forget George Orwell. But when studying the latest shock over vast and secret government spying, there is little time to unpack literary lessons. Covert...Tags: Verizon Communications
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Merion one of golf ghosts' favorite haunts
Philadelphia Daily NewsMerion Golf Club is the Yankee Stadium of its sport. It is the Boston Garden with nasty bunkers. Tucked in the bosom of the Main Line, there is no other club in the United States like Merion. It is close enough to Philadelphia to share the airport, but...Tags: Masters Tournament, Jesse Owens, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Lifestyle and Leisure, Tiger Woods
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Edward Weiss
Edward Henry Weiss, a retired marketing executive who put the name Wacky Noodle on a children's flotation device used in swimming pools, died of a stroke Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Timonium resident was 74. Born in Brooklyn,...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Community College of Baltimore County, New York University, White Marsh
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History Channel and Lou Reda to present WWII shows at Sigal
TV WatchersView the highly acclaimed Lou Reda History production "WWII in HD" along with other History Channel documentaries about World War II produced by the Easton production company during a year-long series at Sigal Museum in Easton. The museum will kick...... -
The 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteers head off to an 'unknown fate'
On the morning of Sept. 25, 1862, nearly a thousand men formed into regimental line on S. Third Street in Easton and prepared to head to war. The 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, a regiment raised in Northampton County in response to President Lincoln's...
Tags: Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Memorial Day, Photography and Video, Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture
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June 10, 1863: Arrest of Copperhead angers The Allentown Democrat
One of the North's most powerful anti-war figures, Clement Vallandigham, of Ohio, was arrested on May 5, 1863, for his outspoken rejection of the Union's cause. Speaking against President Lincoln and the war effort, Vallandigham, who was a member of the...
Tags: Berks County, New York City, Local Elections, Alburtis, Fogelsville
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