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Treasured Mexican sites can't be in ad
New York Times News ServiceMEXICO CITY—Eager to boost tourism, Hidalgo State came up with a novel idea: an advertising campaign featuring a well-known actress wearing Hidalgo's most eye-popping sites on her body. "Hidalgo, under my skin" was the catch phrase for the ads,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Advertising, Newspaper and Magazine, Music Theater, History
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Orange County social services reach out to Vietnamese community
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen Planned Parenthood representatives began handing out free condoms during an initial information session with recent Vietnamese immigrants in Orange County last year, a hush fell over the room. Those who took one quietly whispered, in Vietnamese,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Medical Research, Santa Ana, Health and Safety at School, Family Planning
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Pre-Columbian sounds re-created
Associated PressScientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone did, the shrill, windy screech made the... -
Archaeologists digging up pre-Columbian sounds
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a skull-shaped clay whistle in each bony hand.
But for nearly 15 years no one blew into the noisemakers. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech...Tags: Gaming and Lotteries
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Syria returns stolen marble artifact to Iraq
Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites. The marble block roughly 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and 1 1/2 feet (half a meter) wide contains an engraving of a bearded man kneeling in prayer... -
Tracing young George Washington
Sun reporterAfter a century of speculation, seven years of digging in the Virginia dirt, and two false starts, archaeologists believe they have finally found traces of George Washington's boyhood home, called Ferry Farm, on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg....Tags: Geography, Natural Science, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Rivers, George Washington
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Archaeologists say they've found traces from Washington's youth
Sun reporterAfter a century of speculation, seven years of digging in the Virginia dirt, and two false starts, archaeologists believe they have finally found traces of George Washington's boyhood home, called Ferry Farm, on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg....Tags: Natural Science, Geography, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Literature, George Washington
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Archaeologists unearth ancient stone tools in S.C.
McClatchy-TribuneA local man has unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, S.C., a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived. If more evidence proves the artifact is a new type of tool and one...Tags: Weaponry
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Remnants cannot tell a lie: George Washington's boyhood home found
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAfter years of searching, archaeologists have identified and excavated the boyhood home of George Washington, site of such legendary -- if perhaps apocryphal -- events as chopping down the cherry tree and throwing a coin across the Rappahannock River....Tags: Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Rivers, George Washington, University of South Florida, History
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Washington's boyhood home found, but no hatchet
AP Science WriterThe archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington's boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet. "This was the setting for many important events in Washington's life,"...Tags: Natural Science, Geography, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), George Washington, National Government
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