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Monday's TV Highlights: 'Continuum' on Syfy
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES The Lead With Jake Tapper The journalist...
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Fire damages woodshop at Monroe High School in North Hills
L.A. NOWAn attic fire in a building that houses the woodshop at James Monroe High School in North Hills damaged the shop class, Los Angeles Fire Dept. officials said Friday.... -
NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California
Culture MonsterNational Endowment for the Humanities issues $40 million in grants, including $3.2 million to California museums, scholars and documentary filmmakers. Documentaries win the biggest grants; others sponsor seminars aimed to improve college and secondary... -
Gifts with a Presidents Day twist: Time in office
All The RageJohnny Depp has been stepping out for quite a while now with that proper timepiece: the pocket watch. For instance, he had one tucked in his waistcoat at the People's Choice Awards in January. Many U.S. presidents were known to...... -
James Monroe: A president for his time, not ours
In his Oct. 15 Op-Ed article, "James Monroe, a president for our times?," Harlow Giles Unger offers an enthusiastic portrait of the fifth president's two terms in office from 1817-25, giving him much credit for the New Deal-like programs that helped end...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Adams, Government, Henry Clay, Northern Illinois University
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Inaugural addresses, then and now
We consider ours a singular age of individual psychology and self-awareness. Isn't it strange, then, that our recent presidents have had nothing either modest or insightful to say about themselves in their first inaugural addresses, while our earliest...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Government, Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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Day trips in Virginia
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterVirginia is loaded with history, and there is no shortage of day trips from Washington. Here are two suggestions: Mt. Vernon George Washington's home is so vast and fascinating that it's worth spending four to six hours here. The first highlight is...Tags: Road Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Tour Operations Industry, Transportation, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
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Betty Jane Williams dies at 89; WASP test pilot during WWII
Betty Jane Williams, who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, an elite group that flew noncombat missions during World War II, and served as a test pilot in Texas, has died. She was 89.
Williams, of Woodland Hills, died Monday at Providence...Tags: International Military Interventions, World War II (1939-1945), Korean War (1950-1953), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Sweetwater
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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: H.L. Mencken, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Obama, William Howard Taft, William Henry Harrison
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Treasures amid Valley bustle
Special to The TimesNorth Hills, a Los Angeles suburb of residential developments, large lots and commercial space, sits in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. The community, renamed twice since 1915, is home to a traffic-stopping topiary poodle, an onion-domed church...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Business, Transportation, Sales, Gang Activity
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It's not about the past; it's about potential
Times Staff WriterOnce a thriving working-class community, but hit hard by retail and job losses in the 1990s, Panorama City is poised for change. The 5.5-square-mile community was the first planned development in the San Fernando Valley, with schools, parks, shopping, a...Tags: Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, World War II (1939-1945), Juvenile Delinquency, Family
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Eagles tennis breezes into regional finals
The Virginia Gazette— One team, one goal, Go Eagles. That has been the battle cry for Jamestown High's boys tennis team since coach Bob Artis took over the program nearly a decade ago. The focus of the cheer is to help his squad realize that the Eagles succeed and...Tags: Tennis, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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