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Museum-quality pieces
247-4737Although gift shops conjure up visions of key chains and feather-topped pencils, a patient shopper can find some unique holiday presents. Unlike large retail stores, though, much of the inventory is limited so a good find might go fast. Here are a few...Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Toys, Jamestown Settlement, Animals, Space Programs
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Book reveals more of Fort Monroe's story
247-4952When you've seen as many historic events and people as this legendary stone bastion overlooking Hampton Roads, you can expect to get a lot of ink. Robert E. Lee. The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. Gen. Benjamin Butler and the contraband slaves. In the...Tags: Defense, Fort Monroe, Photography, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces
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City threatens eminent domain on planned museum
ryan.chatelain@am-ny.comFour years after an oil company donated land to a Brooklyn couple for a museum to honor the nation's first commissioned ironclad warship, the property, wedged between industrial warehouses and the East River, still sits vacant. It's not what Janice...Tags: Williamsburg (Virginia), Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Greenpoint, North Carolina
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Battlefield Virginia
Hartford Courant Staff WriterFrom the heavy guns of a seacoast fort through battle-scarred Yorktown and the swampy outskirts of Richmond, the Virginia Peninsula tells the story of a massive war campaign and the evolution of warfare. Along this finger of land cut by the York and...Tags: Williamsburg (Virginia), Defense, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Slavery, Hatteras
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A 17,000-pound juggling act
247-4783Conservators used two 20-ton hoists and an ingenious doughnut-shaped turning cradle Wednesday to right one of the massive upside-down cannon recovered in 2000 from the wreck of the USS Monitor. The 13-foot-long Dahlgren gun, which weighs about 17,000...Tags: Virginia, Hatteras, USS Monitor Center, Navy Yard, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Sites seek to bring past into the future
342-8812Sometimes, it doesn't take explosive movies or computer simulations to revive interest in a history museum - just a touch of velvet. A $24.3 million wing opened a year ago at Jamestown Settlement, with new movies and interactive panels and...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Williamsburg (Virginia), Society, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Mount Vernon
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City Living: Greenpoint
Special to amNewYorkMowimy po polsku. Walk around Greenpoint enough, and you'll become familiar with this sign -- which means "we speak Polish" -- and is often placed in businesses lining Manhattan or Nassau avenues. Even though Brooklyn's northernmost neighborhood is...Tags: Robert Moses, Sales, Bodies of Water, Crimes, Furniture
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Part 2: Making news again
757-247-4783In any list of history's greatest warships, the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor ranks at or near the top. That's why American school kids have celebrated the Union ship and its Confederate adversary for nearly 145 years with the singsong phrase "the...Tags: Defense, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USS Monitor Center, Mariners' Museum, Maritime Accidents
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Taking a high-tech look beneath the surface
247-4783Careful measurement is the cardinal rule of archaeological science. But seldom has the data collected been as exact and revealing as the point cloud generated by a 21st-century laser beam from the 19th-century surface of the USS Monitor gun turret....Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Hatteras, USS Monitor Center, Mariners' Museum, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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A Steel Oasis in a Desert of Water (2004)
WHEN THE USS MONITOR SANK OFF CAPE HATTERAS, N.C., in a Dec. 31, 1862 storm, its loss marked the end of a crucial leap forward in American history.
Spawned by the deadly ingenuity of the first industrial-age arms race, the odd-looking little ironclad...Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Hampton Roads, North Carolina, Hatteras, CSS Virginia
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Raising the turret: the story
FROM 8 MILES AWAY, THE DERRICK BARGE WOTAN is a barely discernible smudge crouched low on the horizon.
Overhead, the sky stretches out in a fathomless canopy of robin's-egg blue, while the sapphire-colored sea below rolls on as if it were eternal. But...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North Carolina, Hatteras, Petroleum Industry
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Discovering the USS Monitor
THE UNRULY SEAS GAVE WAY TO PECULIAR STILLNESS ON THE DAY that the USS Monitor -- lost off Cape Hatteras, N.C., for 110 years -- finally revealed its last position.
Chased down by a team of scientists aboard a Duke University research vessel, the...Tags: Archaeology, North Carolina, Hatteras
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