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TODAY IN HISTORY
1777: France recognized American independence. 1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights, near Kitty Hawk, N.C., using their experimental craft. 1969: The U.S. Air Force closed...Tags: Condoleezza Rice, UFO Sightings, George W. Bush, Orville Wright, U.S. Air Force
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USS Enterprise: The aircraft carrier that changed everything turns 50
NEWPORT NEWS — Fifty years ago today the largest dry dock in the world filled with water from the James River, setting afloat the world's largest ship and first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
At 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 24, 1960, Mrs. William B....Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Garth Brooks, Contracts, U.S. Navy, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Outer Banks: hundreds of miles of vacation fun
With more than 300 miles of coastline, the Outer Banks has stretches of sand that are consistently rated among the top beaches in the world — a perfect setting whether you crave an active vacation or a simple barefoot walk along empty beaches....Tags: Kill Devil Hills, Entertainment, Family, Trips and Vacations, Transportation
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World's Oldest Man, WWI Vet, Dies at Age 113
LONDON -- Only death could silence Henry Allingham.
He went to war as a teenager, helped keep flimsy aircraft flying, survived his wounds and came home from World War I to a long - very long - and fruitful life.
But only in his last years did he...Tags: Henry Ford, France, Wars and Interventions, Injuries and Wounds, Health
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TV Party: '$40-a-Day'
Zap2It.comIn no particular order of preference, here are our favorite things in the world: eating, traveling, spunky women. And so, it makes perfect sense that we would have developed an unhealthy obsession with a woman who's a little Oprah, a little Frommer's...Tags: Television, Entertainment, eBay Inc., Orville Wright, Rachael Ray
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Chanute's gliders
Tribune staff reporterUpon their arrival at the windy dunes along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan, Octave Chanute and his assistants started to unload strange-looking contraptions from the crates they had brought from Chicago. Chanute, who was 64 and had made a fortune...Tags: Wilbur Wright, Herring
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Kitty Hawk Arrives In Puget Sound
The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk has arrived in Puget Sound on its final voyage before decommissioning at Bremerton. A Naval Base Kitsap spokesman, Tom Danaher, says the carrier is on schedule to tie up at 9 a.m. Tuesday. The 47-year-old ship... -
USS Kitty Hawk Embarks On Final Voyage
A historic war icon is making is embarking on its final voyage. The Navy's oldest active ship, the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk leaves San Diego Thursday morning and arrives in Bremerton early next week. That's where it will be publicly...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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U.S., China vie for oil, allies on new Silk Road
Tribune foreign correspondentThe wind-raked scrub of this barren plateau reveals little hint of the revolution gurgling 9 feet beneath. China's first international oil pipeline, buried in the Kazakh steppe, is a milestone for the world's newest empire--one forged not in the name...Tags: European Union, Foreign Aid, Parties and Movements, Dick Cheney, Wars and Interventions
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Meet the 'Nashville Star' Finalists
Zap2It.com"Nashville Star" will cut straight to the chase when it premieres next week: Rather than showing us hours of audtion footage, the show is putting its 12 finalists on stage right away. The show is entering its sixth season -- and the first on NBC after...Tags: Jewel, Entertainment, Science, U.S. Navy, Animal Science
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'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'
I admit it: I was a little tough on the first "Night at the Museum." My son and I disagree all the time on movies, yet I suppose it took his delight in the film's simple but surefire premise (to preteens especially) to make me reconsider. Also, repeated...Tags: Central Park, Boris Karloff, Amelia Earhart, Entertainment, Christopher Guest
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College Park has a prominent place in history of flight
Special To The SunAlmost exactly a century ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first four powered airplane flights in Kitty Hawk, N.C. The longest lasted 59 seconds and carried Wilbur Wright 852 feet. A couple of years later, the U.S. Army was...Tags: Armed Forces, Orville Wright, Tourism and Leisure, Education, Space Programs
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