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In 1993, Bob Hope sold his 2,308-acre California ranch to the National Park Service for $16.7 million; the deal turned his former property into federal parkland and expanded protected land to about 20,400 acres
Bob HopePhoto: Wikimedia Common In 1993, comedian and entertainer Bob Hope sold his 2,308-acre Jordan Ranch in eastern Ventura County...
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Mayor of London race 2028: Conservatives seek party’s nomination
Public affairs professional Alex Challoner told me he came to London from the West Country when he was 21 and...
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Meet Kimberley Christopher, the Florida State doctoral candidate who developed a plasma process designed to destroy PFAS; after winning a collegiate pitch competition, she’s now testing the tech through NSF I-Corps
A Florida State University doctoral candidate is trying to tackle one of the most persistent classes of environmental contaminants with...
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Welsh Green Party deputy Phil Davies resigns over Zionism motion
Davies said it was “not the sort of politics” he wanted to be associated with, and that Green Party Wales...
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Meet Nick Grewal who received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award; he founded Nashoba Networks, acquired by Cisco in 1996, before building ePropelled, a global propulsion company
More than three decades after entering the technology industry, entrepreneur Nick Grewal has added another distinction to his career: the...
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Battle of ideas looming in British politics, Badenoch to say
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will say there is a “battle of ideas” looming in British politics when she delivers a...
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Texas ranchers blocked well operators from a 1,604-acre tract in 2004; on October 1, an appeals court ruled an oil company may cross the land to plug a shut-in well 15 to 20 yards from the San Antonio River
Texas ranchers blocked well operators from 1,604 acres in 2004; court lets oil firm cross property (Image Credit: McFaddin Ranch)...
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EPA removed more than 52,000 tons of PCB-contaminated soil from a New Jersey Superfund site; 2,500 more tons of downstream sediment were cleared before restoration | World News
A cleanup at the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation Superfund Site in Fairfield, New Jersey, has been completed to remove PCB contamination....
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A Maine woman recorded the weather almost every day for 60 years; at 96, she finally stopped sending her observations to NOAA | World News
Arlene Cole sits at her dining table to record the weather in November 2022. Image Credit: Marjorie Turner / Lincoln...
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In 1994, a golfer paid $5 for a green jacket at a Toronto thrift store; it was later confirmed as an authentic 1950s Augusta National club jacket, and it sold at auction in 2017 for $139,349
A golfer was browsing through a Toronto thrift store when he came across a green jacket. The item looked interesting,...
