The team also studied similar features and restoration efforts at Tumacacori National Historical Park, 45 miles south of Tucson, and the Franciscan missions in the Sierra Gorda region of central ...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS.

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Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler, President Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Spectators walk past hand-carved Franciscan religious iconography in the Franciscan Mission Hut during Franciscan Harvest Festival on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004, at the St. Francis Center in Burlington.

A Walgreens manager was convicted of assault for attacking a shoplifter outside a San Francisco store. San Francisco may soon see a new skyscraper in the city's Financial District. The experts are ...

Part 2 of Peter Matthiessen’s Profile of Cesar Chavez, from 1969: While founding a union, the organizer never asked to raise his own salary, never advocated violence, and never wore a tie.