Apr 5, 2013
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Scoreboard -- April 5, 2013
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Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN)
High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...
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Apr 5, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Scoreboard -- April 5, 2013
|TV SPORTS|
|SATURDAY|
Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN)
High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...
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Freedom planted under Hampton oak
Few of the thousands of fugitive slaves who lived in Hampton’s vast Civil War refugee camps were taken by surprise when — on Jan. 1, 1863 — they received word that President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. A hundred...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Arts and Culture, Culture, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Hampton Roads
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York County tree company cares for historic Emancipation Oak at Hampton University
Trees have a lot of history as they grow because they are one of the oldest living things on the face of the earth, said Joel Hubbard, general manager of Hubbard Brothers Inc. Tree Consultants. The Emancipation Oak at Hampton University definitely falls...
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Becoming Hampton: Dates to remember
Daily PressSept. 12, 1570 Spanish Jesuits stop at Indian village of Kecoughtan en route to establishing settlement on the York River. 1597 Chief Powhatan's warriors seize Kecoughtan and install his son Pochins as chief. April 30, 1607 English settlers land at...Tags: Christianity, Blackbeard, John Smith, England, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Fort Monroe: The freedom fort
Daily PressOn the night of May 23, 1861, Frank Baker, Sheppard Mallory and James Townsend slipped into a skiff and rowed across Hampton Roads from Sewell's Point in Norfolk to Old Point Comfort. Being out at night without permission was dangerous for slaves. That...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, West Virginia, Death, Hampton Roads, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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CHAPTER 4: Born a Slave, Bred a Soldier
247-7824Tiny rays of Virginia's radiant sun filter through the thick branches of the walnut trees towering above a two-story farmhouse in James City County. Birds chirp in the distance. Tall, mature crops dance in a light breeze, brushing against each other,...Tags: Farms, James City County, Death, Armed Forces, Jefferson Davis
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Emancipation Oak Photos
A late 1800s view of the Emancipation Oak at what is no...
(April 24, 2013)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day March at Hampton University...
(January 16, 2012)
The history under the hand of Tyrone Tucker 17 at the E...
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