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Calusa relics in a Marco bog

Edit Naples Daily News 30 Apr 2016
Braving swarming mosquitoes, daily downpours and repugnant swamps, anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing spent five months along the Southwest Florida shoreline in 1896 digging through coastal muck.All the while, as he and two men cut through mangroves and slogged through slime, Cushing documented his expedition in search of American Indian artifacts, stunned at his findings ... "He was a very big-picture thinker." ... About Jacob Carpenter....

New rules could see US cigar factory go up in smoke

Edit Taipei Times 30 Apr 2016
Eric Newman eases into an armchair on the top floor of his century-old factory, lights a cigar named after his grandfather and ponders the prospect of his family legacy going up in smoke ... Newman Cigar Co, by making it too costly and complicated to introduce new blends of cigars ... “We are not the enemy. We are not the culprit ... Today, the factory is a rare relic in that it still relies on the same machinery it has for years ... Newman ... ....

Bastrop considers fate of its empty Main Street lot

Edit Austin American Statesman 30 Apr 2016
More than 35 years ago, in the heart of winter, a small family drug store at 921 Main St. burned to the ground ... Not 25 years after that fire, a second building on the same site was destroyed by flames in 2003 ... No cause was determined ... Richard Smarzik, who owns neighboring Relics, a jewelry store, said water used to come into his business from the lot until he and his wife Anne spent $90,000 repairing their side of the shared wall ... ....

Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue review – a rich historical pageant

Edit The Guardian 30 Apr 2016
The religious and cultural forces of Europe’s golden age collide as Caravaggio duels on the tennis court ... Nothing so simple or tame ... The tale of Anne Boleyn’s hair – preserved after her execution and infamously converted into much-coveted tennis balls – is offset by the story of the crafting of images by the Aztecs from the feathers of tropical birds, which in turn became venerated relics in the hands of Europeans ... ....

Return of the bison: new American national symbol tells story of a nation

Edit The Guardian 30 Apr 2016
Nearly wiped out in a bid to demolish Native American resistance, the bison’s history paints a picture of strife and redemption that mirrors the US’s own. @olliemilman. The bald eagle may appeal to America’s sense of self – soaring, majestic, hard to tame – but as a national symbol, the more humble bison paints a truer picture of the strife and redemption that has marked US history ... Twitter ... Twitter ... It’s not an ancient relic.” ... ....

Documentary on Divine Mercy image comes to Tonawanda (Catholic Diocese of Buffalo)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
(Source. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo). Documentary on Divine Mercy image comes to Tonawanda. Monday, April 25, 2016 by Patrick J. Buechi, WNY Catholic ... (Courtesy of Kristen VonBerg) ... In 1931, St ... Things like that.' ... The director travels with a high-resolution replica of the original image, which shows the cracks and brushstrokes; relics of Blessed Michael Sopocko, Faustina's spiritual director; and a gallery of paintings he used in the film....

LGBT Pilgrimage to Ireland, Land of Rainbows and Wedding Bells–Part 1 (New Ways Ministry)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
(Source. New Ways Ministry). Pilgrims gathered among the monastic ruins at Glendalough. Today's post is Part One of a two-part series on New Ways Ministry's pilgrimage to Ireland ... Fr. Tony Flannery and Sr. Jeannine Gramick, Esker Monastery, Athenry ... Fr ... Fr ... Fr ... Redemptorist Father John J ... St ... Mary Minehan, Sr ... Valentine, an altar which holds a small casket containing the relics of this famous saint who is so connected with love and relationships....

I moved near my mother and it sent me into therapy

Edit The Guardian 30 Apr 2016
For Betsy Lerner, years of conflict with her mother finally ended when she got to know her mum’s warm circle of close friends ... This conversation wasn’t about cheese ... It was a hand grenade ... Related ... As an adult, working hard to carve out her career as a literary agent in New York, they seemed like relics of another age, a time in which ladies had nothing to do but lunch and spend the afternoon snapping down cards around a table ... ....

Natural history museums must now tell more about climate change, biodiversity and human-wildlife coexistence

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
It didn't matter that most people might remember Delhi's National Museum of Natural History as a rather down-at-heel, if childpleasing, way to spend some hours ... It was, perhaps, the only one in India." ... And India is full of taxidermy specimens of animals of all kinds, relics from the British Raj which fetishized them as symbols of hunting prowess. There are probably more than enough, in old palaces and clubs, to supply multiple museums....

St. Sharbel relics to be displayed in Scott

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 29 Apr 2016
The relics of St. Sharbel, a Lebanese saint known worldwide for his miracles, will be on display next month in Scott ... ....

Real estate relic is painful reminder of Italy's bad debts

Edit Topix 29 Apr 2016
An unfinished hotel and empty swimming pool sit sadly on the lush hillside of Pitigliano in Tuscany, where they should have welcomed the holidaymakers who flock to central Italy. But the Tosteto spa sits even more heavily on the balance sheet of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which lent 11 million euros to the developer before declaring him in default eight years ago, and is still trying to recoup some of this cash ... ....

Relic Room exhibit focuses on SC’s Fort Motte

Edit The State 29 Apr 2016
Calhoun County fort was a key installation in Revolutionary War. Exhibit features artifacts from Fort Mott, Camden and Fort Watson. Fall of the fort in 1781 part of “War of the Posts” ... ....

Despite Intel cuts, Portland high-tech is surging

Edit The Miami Herald 29 Apr 2016
One embodiment of the change is the arrival of New Relic, a San Francisco software analytics company that employs 300 people in the U.S ... When we started, the opportunities in Portland were a little more limited than what they are today," said Jim Gochee, New Relic's chief product officer. Gradually, though, software developers began to coalesce at a handful of well-funded startups and at outposts like New Relic's....
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