Tag: U S Navy

United States Demand for bin Laden Memorabilia Soars

NEW YORk (REUTERS).- After 9/11, President George W. Bush famously urged Americans to shop to bolster a shocked U.S. economy. Now after Osama bin Laden’s killing, consumers are snapping up memorabilia of his dramatic killing. The website Zazzle, which …

Navy Birthplace in Dispute; Five Communities Claim to Be the Navy’s Birthplace

BOSTON (AP).- The old sign near its border that proclaims the upstate New York town of Whitehall to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy is a bit worn out, town clerk Elaine Jones admits. Residents of several other Northeast towns might describe it anoth…

Navy Birthplace in Dispute; Five Communities Claim to Be the Navy’s Birthplace

BOSTON (AP).- The old sign near its border that proclaims the upstate New York town of Whitehall to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy is a bit worn out, town clerk Elaine Jones admits. Residents of several other Northeast towns might describe it anoth…

Antarctica of 1959 Revealed in Black and White by Robert McCabe

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Cold, white and forbidding the images spring from the glossy pages as they once did from the window of a plane carrying a young photographer into the icy wastelands of Antarctica. “DeepFreeze! A Photographer’s Antarctic Odyssey in…

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