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Several area schools awarded honors from the Board of Education
WDBJ7 ReporterA few area schools received big honors from Richmond Wednesday. The Board of Education Excellence awards were given to 51 schools across the state. The only school in Roanoke City to receive the award was Crystal Spring Elementary. It met all...Tags: Education, Politics, Regional Authority, Amherst County, Carroll County (Virginia)
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Thune questions closing of Wind Cave campground
CUSTER, S.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Thune is questioning a decision to close a campground at Wind Cave National Park in southwestern South Dakota due to automatic federal spending cuts that took effect March 1. The South Dakota Republican sent a...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks, Travel, National Parks, Landforms
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Researchers study two bat hibernacula in northern Lower Michigan
Winter steelheaders may not know it, but just yards above their drifting spawn bags or swinging flies, between 18,000-20,000 bats are resting quietly through the winter. The structure in which the bats are hibernating — called a hibernaculum...
Tags: Eastern Michigan University, Environmental Issues, Hydroelectricity, Renewable Energy, Landforms
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave talks about 'painful births' in songwriting
AUSTIN, Texas -- Nick Cave has written novels, movie scripts and a few dozen of the greatest songs of the last 30 years. Yet for him, it never gets any easier. The problem with finishing a song, Cave said Tuesday as a featured speaker at the 27th...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Kylie Minogue, Brazil, Entertainment, Music
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SXSW 2013: The music stories to watch
On the final night of the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, last year, a young folk-rock trio from Denver took the makeshift stage at a church a few blocks away from the main action down on 6th Street. The church was about half full,...Tags: YouTube, Billie Joe Armstrong, Kid Cudi, Nas, Fine Artists
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Optical illusions
WASHINGTON -- The media love optics and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) Jefferson Hotel, one of the city's more discreet (and expensive)...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John Boehner, Politics, Republican Party, Unemployment Benefits
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SXSW 2013: Untold stories of The Beatles in 'Good Ol' Freda'
With countless books, films, re-issues, compilations and the like, it would be easy to assume there are no new stories to be told about the Beatles. The documentary “Good Ol’ Freda,” which has its world premiere Saturday at the South...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, The Beatles (music group), Film Festivals, Movies, Entertainment
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‘Meteor Disneyland’? Russian city looks to meteor site’s future
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesMeteor Disneyland. That's just one of the ideas for future incarnations of the spot in southern Russia where a 10,000-ton ...... -
Our Voice: Billionaires list grows; let's hope they're generous
Here are some things that caught our interest lately: World’s richest Forbes magazine recently released its annual list of 1,426 billionaires — 16 percent more than last year. Not our money, we know, but still, we hope they all are...Tags: High School Sports, Tourism and Leisure, Watertown, Gardens and Parks, Natural Disasters
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How does a bedroom just collapse? Sinkhole science explained
Millions of years of geological activity and marine ecology culminated in the the sudden appearance of a 50-foot hole under a Florida suburban household Thursday. Sinkholes similar to one that swallowed 36-year-old Jeff Bush’s bedroom and,...Tags: Hillsborough County, Landforms, Tampa
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Your Scene: Cave dwelling in India
Dana Baldwin visited the Ajanta Caves, about 200 miles northeast of Mumbai, during a trip to India in November. The caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, were carved out of a cliff about 2,000 year ago and house early Buddhist artworks, some of which are...
Tags: UNESCO, Landforms, Canon EOS
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Work continues near Florida sinkhole that swallowed man
SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Engineers worked gingerly Saturday morning to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground. Jeff Bush,...
Tags: Hillsborough County, Landforms, Tampa, Sinkholes, Swiss Cheese
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