Stories tagged with "World War II"
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LAS VEGAS — Byron “Brandy” Holmes Brandenburg, 84, Las Vegas, died Sept. 13, 2009, at Nathan Adelson Hospice Center in Las Vegas. Mr. Brandenburg retired from...
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RV industry may be on brink of a rebound
With July’s sales clip the best in 9 months, Indiana jobs returning ELKHART, Ind. — George Graber was unemployed for three months this year after the shutdown of a...
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Town, committee estimates project will cost about $200,000; veteran will be model for bronze statue at new park A highly decorated and high-ranking World War II veteran from...
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Avon plans World War II memorial
A highly decorated and high-ranking World War II veteran from Hendricks County will be the model for a statue in a new park in Avon. Clyde C. “Chet” Wright, a retired...
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'Airlift' dance honors German-US relations
There are sill tickets available for the Berlin Airlift dinner dance at 6 p.m. Friday at the Indianapolis Executive Airport. The cost is $30 per person for the dance, located at...
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A year after meltdown, what's the new normal?
Our sense of financial security is rattled A year after edging dangerously close to free fall, there are signs the economy is regaining a foothold. But Americans’ feeling of...
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On this date: In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House. In 1927, American...
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Recalling 2008's financial disaster
For 5 scary weeks, U.S. was on brink of a full meltdown NEW YORK — The start of five weeks that shook the U.S. financial system to its foundation came on a Sunday. That is...
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Rare Nazi cars to be sold at Kruse's annual Labor Day auction
3 rare Nazi vehicles to be sold at Kruse International’s Labor Day weekend auction For a couple of years now, Kruse International has been known as the auction house that...
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E-mail Robert Bianco at rbianco@usatoday.com•TV's Labor Day is customarily devoted to marathons, many of them for shows that don't really merit the marathon touch....
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Nazi command cars go to auction
Amid the rows of rare roadsters and vintage motorcycles up for sale this weekend at Kruse International’s annual auction, three vehicles will tower above the rest —...
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Going after Granny to kill reform
When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? Republicans planted the fear that President Barack Obama wants to “kill...
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Lack of data hinders prevention efforts
How many Jacob Blaylocks are there? How many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have come back, haunted by memories of war and struggling to cope with life at home, and taken their...
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Day 3: 'In their minds it's never gonna go away. The war is still there.'
The body of Jacob Raymon Blaylock was buried in Houston National Cemetery in a field of patchwork sod, with a pond and fountain nearby. Blaylock rests in plot S1 151, among his...
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By Terry Mort (Scribner, $26) Ernest Hemingway, hunting German subs in World War II, may never have seen one, but he thought he did. He headed straight for the target in his wooden...
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By Ward Just (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25) On the surface, Washington is a curious setting for a story that goes like this: A protagonist defined by his lack of ambition is...
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'Inglourious Basterds' latest in Jewish vengeance film genre
Talk about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.In Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked new film Inglourious Basterds Brad Pitt and his merry band of Jewish soldiers bash Nazi...
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Western novelist Elmer Kelton dies
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Western novelist Elmer Kelton, whose novel The Good Old Boys was made into a TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones, has died. He was 83. Myrtis...
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Convention gamers like to play and pay here
The recession didn’t stop Dean Browell from trekking all the way to Indianapolis last week to play games. He and three friends from Virginia had planned their trip to Gen Con...
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Book roundup: Historical titles
Recent history titles probe subjects ranging from an Amazon utopia ruled from afar by Henry Ford to the Bataan Death March to Teddy Roosevelt to the inside scoop on Queen...
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Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids | The New York Observer by Chris Vannoy
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/foursquare-hot-new-phone-app-dodgeball-steroids
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US multimillionaire Nazi sympathizer was building dirty bomb before wife killed him by Jonathan Boho
http://bangornews.com/detail/99263.html This story kinda buries the lead, but the upshot is this trust-fund millionaire in Maine was VERY ups…
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Recovering Journalist: Doing the Math on Online Newspaper Subscriptions by Chris Vannoy
There’s a reason why most journalists–including myself–were liberal arts majors. It’s because, well, as Barbie once said, …
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Content Bridges: Paid Content: You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard by Chris Vannoy
If you’ve actually looked at your cable bill lately, you know it’s undecipherable. Cablevision — owner of Newsday — c…
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"Individuated" news tested - The Denver Post by Chris Vannoy
“Individuated” news tested
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