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Posted On USTop US Middle East commander visits long-deployed aircraft carrier
Adm. Adam Cooper met with those on board the Abraham Lincoln. Source link
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Posted On USVirginia installed 46 water-control structures across 150 miles of old drainage ditches to re-wet a swamp; restored peat now traps 200,000 metric tons of carbon a year
The Fish and Wildlife Service restored peat wetlands at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge North Carolina’s coastal peatlands are being restored to protect wetlands,…
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Posted On USMississippi’s termite swarms are here, and a single treatment can cost up to $1,750
For Mississippi homeowners, a sudden cloud of winged insects can be more than a seasonal annoyance. It can be the first visible sign of a…
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Posted On USHawaii’s 34,000 acres of managed eucalyptus plantations could become a local source of lumber for homes and infrastructure
Hawaii imports much of the lumber used to build its homes, schools and infrastructure, but a new University of Hawaii at Mānoa research project is…
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Posted On USIn 1905, a 13-year-old crawled through a tiny Tennessee cave passage and found a hidden underground lake
In 1905, a 13-year-old boy exploring Tennessee’s Craighead Caverns squeezed through a narrow, muddy passage and stumbled upon something far larger than he could have…
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Posted On USManhattan’s got a hairy situation! Giant 10-foot hairball ‘Tumblehair’ takes over the streets of NYC
Nothing fazes New Yorkers, or at least that’s what they thought, until they stepped out onto Manhattan streets and encountered a 10-foot sphere of real…
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Posted On USAt 20, Finnish immigrant Maggie Walz arrived in Michigan with just $7; in 1903 she claimed 160 acres on a Lake Huron island and the colony she founded grew to five settlements with around 1,000 people
Maggie Walz Photo credit: National Park Service Born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland, in 1861, Maggie Walz came to the United States at…
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Posted On USIn 1958, Mahala Ashley Dickerson visited Alaska on vacation and decided to move there; after claiming 160 acres, she became the territory’s first Black homesteader and months later its first Black lawyer
Dickerson had built a career that included several notable firsts. (Anchorage museum photo) American lawyer and civil rights advocate Mahala Ashley Dickerson’s life took her…
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Posted On USIn 1940, the Walker sisters sold their 122-acre Tennessee homestead for $4,750; a lifetime lease let them keep living there inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Deep in the heart of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where mist clings to the ridges and the forest hums with life, stands a quiet…
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Posted On USIn 1898, 17 years after surviving the O.K. Corral gunfight, Virgil Earp claimed 160 acres in Arizona; two years later, he earned title to the land
Representative Image (AI-generated) Seventeen years after surviving the famous O.K. Corral gunfight, former Tombstone lawman Virgil Earp embarked on a very different chapter of his…
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