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Beach Surveys Show the Link Between Marine Heatwaves and Seabird Die-offs
News Release: More evidence shows the connection between marine heatwaves and seabird die-offs. This recent study, a multi-partner effort led by the University of Washington, used more than 90,000 surveys of 106 seabirds on more than 1,000 beaches conducted by the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST). The study harnessed massive amounts of data from citizen science spanning the coast of California to northern Alaska.
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"Tharp's Log" Wayside
News Release: This interpretive wayside next to Tharp's Log - a historic cabin - give historic context of its resident and the area.
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Jeff Rasic Selected as the Alaska Region Science Advisor
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The National Park Service has selected long-time NPS employee Jeff Rasic as the Alaska Region Science Advisor and lead for the Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (CESU) for Alaska. Jeff comes to the position from Gates of the Arctic National Park and Yukon-Charley Rivers Preserve (YUGA) where he has served as the Chief of Integrated Resources Management since 2013.
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Chapter 3: The World’s Greatest Dinosaur War Ever
News Release: The new kid in Kenny’s class is named Rufus Fry.
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Chapter 5: Nazi Parachutes Attack America and Get Shot Down over the Flint River by Captain Byron Watson and His Flamethrower of Death
News Release: Momma catches Byron lighting matches for fun. She tells a sad story about how her house caught on fire when she was a little girl and warns Byron that if he plays with matches again, she will burn him! Not even a week later, Byron is in the bathroom lighting matches for his pretend movie called “Nazi...
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Chicamacomico Life Saving Station
News Release: With its two stations and five outbuildings, Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station (pronounced chi-ka-ma-COM-i-co) is the most complete site of all remaining life-saving stations in North Carolina and one of the most complete sites in the nation. This site and museum is located on Hatteras Island in the village of Rodanthe on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Federal subsistence hunting permits for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve available starting July 27
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - Federal subsistence registration permits for hunts in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve will be available starting Thursday, July 27, at the park’s Visitor Center in Copper Center and the Slana Ranger Station. The Copper Center Visitor Center is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through September 17. The Slana Ranger Station is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through September 23.
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Langston Hughes in the Classroom
News Release: In 2022, Langston Hughes is a well-known and well-respected author. Most American literature anthologies include his work, some children memorize and recite his poetry (“Mother to Son" or “The Negro Mother"), and schools are even named after him.
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July 2, 1787: Deadlock
News Release: ". no modifications whatever could reconcile the Smaller States to the least diminution of their equal Sovereignty.".
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Post World War II Advertising Aimed At African American Consumers
News Release: The years following World War II featured a dramatic increase in advertising aimed at African American consumers. Before this period, many companies, especially large corporations, did not pay much attention to this segment of the U.S. consumer market. During the early twentieth century, African Americans were viewed as a rural population with limited money to spend. However, this situation changed as the years progressed.
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Hunting in the Mid-20th Century
News Release: Hunting has been a way for Southerners (and Americans in general) to earn money, to supply food for the table, and to recreate, or have fun, for centuries. During the early 1960s, hunting was a common activity in the South, across racial and socioeconomic lines. Both Black and white, rich and poor, urban...
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Language Variation
News Release: In Christopher Paul Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham, “talk about talk" figures prominently among the members of the Watson family, who observe how certain “southernisms" differ from their own midwestern style of speaking.
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Paradise Historic District Exhibit Panel
News Release: Title: Paradise Historic District. Main Text. Since the late 1890s Paradise has served as a base camp for people attracted to the spectacular wildflower meadows and high-mountain recreation. Built between 1916 and 1942, structures at Paradise were designed in an alpine rustic style. Massive timbers and...
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Traveling While Black
News Release: Every year when we were out of school for the summer my parents drove us, in our big Ford Station wagon, from our home in New Jersey to visit my grandmother in North Carolina. We could hardly sleep the night before because we were so excited. When we were kids, my brother and I didn’t know that we were...
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Radio and Postwar Advertising
News Release: Americans had been listening to the radio for forty years by the early 1960s. Before the end of World War II, however, radio was built around daily or weekly programs that ranged from mysteries to live musical performances. These shows were sponsored by a single advertiser who presented their message...
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AIS Stations Open July 20 for Boating at Two Medicine and St. Mary Lakes
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 17, 2023] - In partnership with the Blackfeet Tribe, Glacier National Park announces that Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) inspection stations will open on July 20, 2023, to provide boating opportunities on Two Medicine and St. Mary Lakes in Glacier National Park for the first time since 2019.
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Belle Isle Marsh
News Release: The last remaining salt marsh in the city of Boston, is located in East Boston. Known now as Belle Isle Marsh, this area boasts just over 130- acres of marshland, and is home to more than 250 species of birds. The area is designated as an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society, and an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the Bureau of Land Management. While it might not seem like it, Belle Isle used to be an island.1.
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Credit At Grocery Stores
News Release: Today, when credit card offers pop up on our phones, our computers, our televisions, and, of course, in the mail, it is difficult to understand how scarce credit for urban African Americans was in the past. One form of credit was the grocer’s ledger book. In the 19th century, and well into the 1920s...
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Play in Post-World War II America
News Release: Children have always played. But the kinds of play that are most common today - solitary play, electronic play (with videogames or computers), and play organized by adults - were far less common decades ago. In the past, children’s play took place in groups outdoors and occurred spontaneously. Children...
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Woman gored by bison in Yellowstone National Park
News Release: * A 47-year-old female from Phoenix, Arizona, was gored by a bison near the Lake Lodge Cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone the morning of July 17.