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Annapolis' Borland, Williams lead classes at NOOD Regatta
Two Annapolis sailors, Jeff Borland and Tim Williams, took advantage of favorable winds on their home Chesapeake Bay waters to take the lead in their classes Saturday at the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta. Borland leads the nine-boat Etchells class...Tags: Laurel, Havre de Grace, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Yorktown (York, Virginia)
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What's on page one?
Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, had been working on their flying machine for some time, but without visible success. Finally, in December of 1903 they were able to get the plane off the ground for an extended distance at Kitty Hawk. They wrote...Tags: Religious Festivals, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Christmas, Kim Kardashian, Jesus Christ
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One strike, Iran could be out
Of all the columns I've written for this newspaper over the last couple of years, none has elicited a more heated response than the one published in January 2006 about the Great War of 2007. Indeed, it still gets quoted back at me more than a year and a...Tags: Government, National Government, White House, History, Defense
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Rosy future for flight's past
Sun National StaffOne in a series of occasional articles. DAYTON - All that remains of the bicycle shop where brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the world's first successful airplane is a vacant grassy lot at 1127 W. Third St. - until last year, the site of Andy'...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Transportation Accidents, Education, Robin Hayes, Environmental Issues
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Whither wind for Wrights
Sun National StaffOne in a series of occasional articles KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. - The pilot who will step onto the sands near Kitty Hawk tomorrow to re-enact the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago will share the centennial spotlight with an unpredictable member...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Science and Technology, Weather Reports, American Airlines, Inc., Weather
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Fear factor
Change of SubjectPsychologists have learned that we rank fatal events by roughly squaring the death toll per event. An automobile accident with one fatality is seen as one fatality. One hundred accidents with one fatality apiece are still seen as 100 deaths....... -
Dec. 2, Glenview: Homes’ doors pried open, and more
TribLocal - Glenview ยป NewsBurglaries A $165 global positioning system was stolen Nov. 22 from a vehicle in the 2200 block of Strawberry Lane. The resident confronted the burglar, …... -
Historic Key West-Cuba flight back in spotlight
Domingo Rosillo del Toro, Wright Brothers, Key West to Havana flight It was a time when aviation was in its earliest stages, when it took guts just get in a plane, let alone fly over 90 miles of open water. But tempted by a competition with $10,000 in...
Tags: Miami International Airport, Human Interest, Concourse, Monroe County (Florida), Woodrow Wilson
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Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum comes to Harford
The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum has been taking the Glenn L. Martin Company rocket age history on the road to Harford County. Thanks to support from the Dresher Foundation, the museum is offering its outreach STEM education program "From Sand...Tags: Satellite Technology, Education, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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La Grange, Oak Park, River Forest police blotter: May 6
The following items were taken from police reports: La Grange Noise disturbance A woman reported being woken up by sidewalk cleaning and street sweeping May 3 in the 70 block of East Harris Street. Theft A theft valued at more than $500 was...
Tags: Assault, Criminals, Chicago Transit Authority, Realty, Austin (Chicago, Illinois)
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Dream of flying lands Curt Brown in U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
Star TribuneAloft in space, Curt Brown looked down on Earth with the pioneer of orbit himself, astronaut John Glenn, riding beside him. It was a childhood dream come true for Brown, who now lives in western Wisconsin, to command the space shuttle Discovery with his...Tags: Science and Technology, Rocketry, NASA, Technology, Kennedy Space Center
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