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This presidential database loves running and Legos
Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and running so fast across the living room to flip onto the couch that his feet end up pointing at the ceiling. He also loves the presidents — especially 11 and 33. Arden knows all 44 U.S. presidents. In order....
Tags: Chester Alan Arthur, Franklin Pierce, George H.W. Bush, George Washington, George W. Bush
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City Beat: An authority on the presidents at age 5
Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and doing flips onto the living room couch. He also loves our nation's presidents. He knows all 44 in order and can tell you something about any one of them. Arden knows a lot about the presidents because he reads a...
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A stroll through history at Virginia's Berkeley Plantation
A place of beginnings and endings, Berkeley Plantation, about halfway between Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., is part of your life. Each time you celebrate Thanksgiving, there's an echo of the first Thanksgiving held here in 1619 (pre-Pilgrim, Berkeley...
Tags: William Henry Harrison, Thanksgiving, Charles City (Charles City, Virginia), Holidays
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A citizen's required reading for July 4: The Declaration of Independence
Top of the TicketAfter all these years, do you really know what it says?... -
TV This Week: Nov. 7 -13
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 7 - 13 in PDF format Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here This week's TV Movies SUNDAY âBlack Girls Rock!â Need examples? Former child star Raven-Symoné, rapper...... -
Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Television, Disasters and Accidents, John Lennon, Music Theater
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A citizen's required reading for July 4th: The Declaration of Independence (with music)
Top of the TicketAfter all these years do you really know what it says? And a striking special video of the National Anthem by a loyal Ticket reader.... -
Melvin Simon dies at 82; shopping center magnate
Associated PressMelvin Simon, who started what is now the country's largest shopping mall company and owned the NBA's Indiana Pacers with his brother, died Wednesday in Indianapolis, a spokesman said. He was 82. Les Morris, a spokesman for Simon Property Group, which...Tags: U.S. Army, Indiana Pacers, Reggie Miller, Jermaine O'Neal, Companies and Corporations
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Past presidents -- an inaugural quiz
Today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president in a ceremony filled with tradition. Test your knowledge of ceremonies past. 1. Of whose inaugural speech did wordsmith H.L. Mencken say: "It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it...Tags: George Washington, Super Bowl, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The first suppers: A tradition of inaugural meals
Barack Obama will be sworn into office on Tuesday -- just weeks before the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Obama's inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," has, fittingly, been drawn from his fellow Illinoisan's Gettysburg Address, and he's...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, George Washington, George W. Bush, Gefilte Fish, Abraham Lincoln
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A presidential quiz
The 42 men who've been president of the United States share many characteristics besides membership in one of the world's most exclusive clubs. That means, looking at them as a group, we can extract an "average president." The data can't predict who'll...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln
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The Declaration of Independence, reloaded
When you've spent as many hours unpacking the text of the nation's founding documents as we have, you start to notice how many concerns that were pressing when the United States was founded remain unresolved today. This is obvious with the U.S....Tags: Local Elections, Stephen Hopkins, William V Williams, Constitutional Issues, John Hancock
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