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In Realms of the Spirit
Special to The TimesOn the flank of a slight hill on the west side of the Rio Grande, I stand beside a 6-foot-tall concrete cross and, for a moment, hold history in the palm of my hand. The place is a rough field that in some other climate might have been called a pasture....Tags: Roman Catholicism, Mountains, Gaming, Book, Government
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A missing 'star' in Jamestown
Special to The Los Angeles TimesDespite her legendary status, Pocahontas is all but ignored. VIRGINIA Jamestown, Va. — RACHEL SECAN came to Jamestown wearing her Pocahontas costume and pink snow boots. She was hoping to see something about her favorite Indian princess. Why...Tags: Defense, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), DVDs and Movies, Bruce Hornsby, History
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Use your rebate to take a vacation on Uncle Sam
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe checks are in the mail -- and in some bank accounts. The Department of the Treasury has signed those little slips of paper designed to give many of us a piece of the $168-billion stimulus package that is supposed to kick-start our flagging economy....Tags: Expedia Incorporated, Vehicles, Wetlands, Automotive Equipment, Internal Revenue Service
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Battlefield Virginia
Hartford Courant Staff WriterFrom the heavy guns of a seacoast fort through battle-scarred Yorktown and the swampy outskirts of Richmond, the Virginia Peninsula tells the story of a massive war campaign and the evolution of warfare. Along this finger of land cut by the York and...Tags: Armed Forces, Tredegar Corporation, Defense, Social Issues, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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From Jamestown to us
KIRKPATRICK SALE is the author of 12 books, including "After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination."AS WILLIAM STRACHEY, later secretary to the little colony of Jamestown, put it in his account of the settlement, "Captain [Christopher] Newport Â… had sight of an extended plaine & spot of earth, which thrust out into the depth, & middle of the channelÂ…....Tags: Health, John Smith, Death, Diseases and Illnesses
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Why AP classes work
Tom Stanley-Becker's attack on the Advanced Placement-industrial complex, "Bursting the AP bubble," inspired many students and teachers to write in. (See the letters that that made the ink-and-paper medium here.) Here, three students and one former AP U....Tags: Gaming, School Examinations, Bruce Springsteen, Theodore Roosevelt, Entertainment
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Mark O'Connor, genre fiddler
Mark O'Connor sat in the small theater at UCLA as three earnest young music students -- a violinist, a cellist and a pianist -- determinedly worked through one movement of his Piano Trio No. 1, a piece commissioned and recorded by the Eroica Trio, one...Tags: Nine Inch Nails (music group), Marin Alsop, Classical Music (genre), Yo-Yo Ma, Country and Western (genre)
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Europe's view of the colonies
Retained by none other than Sir Walter Raleigh, John White first traveled to North America in 1585, landing on the shores of what is now North Carolina. In a series of watercolors, he opened up the New World: Algonquin Indians and their villages, the...Tags: England, Raleigh
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Ellie Nesler dies at 56; woman killed her son's accused molester in courtroom
Ellie Nesler, the mother who took the law into her own hands in a Northern California courtroom by shooting to death the man who allegedly molested her young son, has died. She was 56. Nesler died Friday morning at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento,...Tags: University of California, Justice System, Social Issues, Western Africa, Lawyers
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Your majesty? Not in America
KITTY KELLEY, author of "The Royals," is working on a biography of Oprah Winfrey.THE OXFORD UNION last week staged a most provocative debate, one that might have embarrassed the British monarch. Days before Queen Elizabeth II was scheduled to arrive in the U.S., the debating society considered whether the colonies were even worthy...Tags: Ceremonies, John F. Kennedy, Government, Communist Party of China, George W. Bush
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Finding the nuggets in Gold Country
Times Staff WriterMost great drives are about cruising the open road with the wind in your hair and scenery so stunning that you don't bother with a camera because you know the view will live forever in your memory. California Highway 49 is not one of those drives. Sure,...Tags: North Fork, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Travel, Hotels and Accommodations, Breads
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'Cushy bike trip' at sea
Times Staff WriterBalance the comforts of a cruise with vigorous mountain biking on a nine-day trip through the southern Caribbean Islands departing Feb. 4. Cyclists traveling on the Norwegian Spirit will visit Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Tortola and Antigua. Mornings...Tags: Religious Festivals, Colonial Williamsburg, Holidays, Cruises, Fort Lauderdale
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