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In the early 1990s, American divers uncovered a mystery off the coast of New Jersey: an unmarked German submarine resting ...
Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats ...
The concept, coined by a California architect in 2010, describes a once-common residential option between single-family and apartment-complex living that lost its luster post-World War II as city ...
Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. They designed the boats ...
A LaPorte man serving a 44-year prison term for repeatedly molesting a young girl received a fair trial, according to a new ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals. Curtis A. Adams, 48, was ...
In the Victorian era, it was said that the length of a man’s boat, in feet, should match his age, in years. The Victorians would have had some questions at the fortieth annual Palm Beach ...
CROWN POINT — The Lake County Board of Commissioners is set to decide at its May 21 meeting which of the two convention center proposals should move forward toward eventual construction. Lake ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, many forces in our country were trying to return the United States to a version of America that they believed existed before World War II. A national paranoia about ...
BROADALBIN — Summer is here, and Broadalbin-Perth Jr./Sr. High School students took full advantage of the sunny weather with a homemade cardboard boat race at the Great Sacandaga Lake on Wednesday.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, “a day that will live in infamy.” But June 6, 1944 “was the day America saved the world.” ...