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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: Politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Heads of State, Education
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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: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Death, Religious Texts, John Quincy Adams, Super Bowl
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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: Defense, Armed Forces, Heads of State, Jimmy Carter, Government
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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: Slavery, Transportation, Death, Travel, George Washington
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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: Defense, Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Death, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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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: Transportation, Real Estate Agents, Crimes, Family, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Death, Crimes, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Family
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