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This week in history: September 21-27
13+ min ago (671+ words) On September 23, 2001, two gas explosions at the Jim Walter Resources No. 5 mine in Brookwood, Alabama killed 13 miners. The dead were all members of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Local 2368. It was the worst US mining disaster since December 1984, when…...
Historic sites in Naples, all within walking distance
22+ hour, 19+ min ago (278+ words) Today we’ll take a walking tour of Naples, which starts at a historic railroad depot and ends at the Gulf, in what is known as Olde Naples. Put on some comfortable shoes and come along. The Naples Depot Museum opened…...
'Will I ever atone?' A Jewish policeman’s Holocaust confession
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (567+ words) Calek Perechodnik was born in 1916 in Otwock, near Warsaw. He married Anna (Anka) Nusfeld, and the couple had a daughter, Athalie, known as Aluska. Before his wife and daughter were murdered at the Treblinka extermination camp, Perechodnik wrote that he…...
Canada: More than America's polite neighbour
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (559+ words) Canadians happen to know plenty about the United States; with its comparatively tiny population of 41 million, Canada has long paid close attention to its hulking neighbour as a matter of necessity...
Workers dredging Georgia's Savannah River found cannons that had vanished since the Revolutionary War; more than 200 years later, 19 were pulled from the water
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (132+ words) AI image In 2009, Britain turned 45,000 tonnes of food waste into biogas; the result generated 1.7 MW of renewable electricity for 2,700 homes at Westwood in Northamptonshire Washington used 1 pneumatic fish cannon to solve salmon passage past a 60m hydroelectric dam; the result transformed…...
American Revolution Experience at Highlands
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (425+ words) ASHLAND The Poage Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution announced the opening of the American Revolution Experience at the Highlands DO!Zeum, scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 22. It will run through Saturday, Sept. 26. The pop-up exhibition includes display panels…...
Photo Exhibition Imagines What Emmett Till’s Life Could Have Been
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (106+ words) A photo exhibition imagines the life 14-year-old Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago....
From the archives: An effort to 'save' a scenic Wilmington road
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (262+ words) There's a road in Wilmington that shows off live oaks, historic estates, popular local restaurants and the Intracoastal Waterway. When a 10-story hotel was proposed there, it didn't take long for people to chime in against the project. According to…...
Birmingham alumni born in 1963 reflect on civil rights legacy
16+ hour, 56+ min ago (374+ words) Alumni from Birmingham City Schools born in 1963 came together at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to commemorate the events of that transformative year and reflect on the Civil Rights Movement's impact on Birmingham and the nation. Attendees highlighted 1963 as a…...
Raven’s Fort Clue May Locate Alfred’s Battle of Ashdown
1+ week, 4+ day ago (270+ words) The battle is often placed near Ashbury, Oxfordshire, because it was called ‘Asshedoune’ (Ashdown) in Old English in a royal charter from Alfred’s father king Ethelwulf around thirty years before the Battle of Ashdown took place. “The Anglo Saxons and…...