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Questions and answers for Jamestown cannibalism case
Few archaeological finds have been as sensational as the first physical evidence of cannibalism unearthed at Historic Jamestowne in 2012 and announced in a riveting press conference at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History on...
Tags: Museum of Natural History, Cannibalism, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Colonial Williamsburg
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Sculpture, Walters Art Museum, Barack Obama, Biotechnology, Art Institute of Chicago
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Murder in a rural county: Part 2 of 2
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.Every night, before resting her head on a pillow, Billie Stewart calls on the Almighty for strength to endure another day. For more than a year now, she has found sleep an elusive respite from the nightmare that haunts her daily, the knowledge that...Tags: Murder, Substance Abuse, Earl Ray Tomblin, Aneurysm, Washington, DC
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Library brings musical side of Lincoln to life
Enjoy a truly unique musical role-playing experience with General Grant and President Lincoln. Will and Bernadine Boyce have spent years perfecting their impersonations of General and Mrs. Grant (along with other Civil War personalities) and Dr. Duke...
Tags: Libraries, Havre de Grace, Wars and Interventions, Sociology, Culture
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Murder in a rural county
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.High on a hill, in woods overlooking a multi-family cemetery, a hunter set about readying a tree stand for the fall season when he spied a human skull. Before long, other body parts were discovered, scattered across the forest, all belonging to Rachel...Tags: Murder, Substance Abuse, FBI, Police Arrests, Missing Persons
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Victoria announces Cool Film series
The Dayton Daily NewsThe names of the 12 films that will be shown this summer at the Victoria Theatre Association's popular Cool Films Series have just been announced. New this year is "Reel Late At the Vic," a series of films that will screen at 10:30 p.m. They include...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Entertainment Events, FBI, Carnegie Hall, Music
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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: Trials, Tour Operations Industry, Museum of Natural History, National Parks, Lawyers
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'New Frontier' exhibit at Gilcrease Museum captures local culture
Tulsa WorldWhen the Palazzo Pitti museum in Florence, Italy, decided to celebrate its native son, navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, it came to Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum. Gilcrease worked with the Italian museum to create an exhibit titled "La Nuova Frontiera...Tags: Museums, India, Arts, Fine Artists, Artists
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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: Hunting, Archaeology, Manufacturing and Engineering, Machine Manufacturing, Dwayne Johnson
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Recognition for a reserved WWII vet
Like many World War II veterans, he speaks modestly about his service. He is quiet and a polite listener, not the kind to draw attention to himself. But a few months ago, as he visited the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, other veterans noticed...
Tags: U.S. Army, Chinese Restaurants, Tokyo (Japan), Discrimination, Harry S. Truman
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Woody Guthrie's great American voice gets a new home in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. - The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago. On the screen a typewritten love letter appears and the words scroll down and you can imagine the woman...Tags: George Kaiser, Fine Artists, Huntington's Disease, Music Theater, Artists
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Smithsonian to preserve, display Edisto slave cabin
The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.One of this area's few remaining slave cabins seemed certain to be lost to history. The two-room, wood-sided building, once one of dozens of similar cabins on Point of Pines plantation, had suffered from decades of neglect, a pronounced lean and lots of...Tags: Culture, Harriet Tubman, Slavery, Washington, DC, Museums
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