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Hobie Cat race officer has Olympic experience
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 2 Hours 38 Minutes ago
Globe Gazette - CLEAR LAKE ?It?s a long way from Qingdao, China, to Clear Lake, Iowa....
Bleakney begins quest for gold
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 9 Hours 27 Minutes ago
Globe Gazette - MASON CITY ?Adam Bleakney wrestled for Jim Cornick at Mason City High in the early 1990s....
Ancient adventure
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 2 Days 8 Hours 31 Minutes ago
The Gazette - cruise turned out to be the ideal way to combine beautiful scenery, great food onboard and on shore, and an interest in ancient history. The 12-day cruise started May 20 in Istanbul, Turkey, founded about 676 B.C., and ended in Athens, Greece, a city that has been continuously inhabited for more than 3,000 years. In between were stops at Kusadasi, Turkey, six Greek islands, Albania and Croatia.These sites offer tremendous diversity in people, in cultures, in languages, in architecture, reflecting their turbulent political histories. It also became clear how often natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods altered the course of history. I'm still absorbing what I learned about the area that laid the foundations of western civilization, not only from my own observations and from the excellent guides leading the shore tours, but from daily written briefings supplied by staff of the Oceania Cruise Line en route.And I've stored up lots of images to supplement the words. Here are a few samples.A few steps under the central dome of Istanbul's Blue Mosque is all it takes to understand why it's called that: More than 20,000 ceramic tiles in shades of cobalt blue are highlighted by the sun streaming through 260 windows. The effect is stunning.As cars and buses moved by on the multilane street in Istanbul, a man carefully balanced a heaped basket of unwrapped loaves of bread on his head as he stood on the traffic island ready for customers. Another man held a basket of plums while a driver made a purchase as he waited for the traffic light to change.The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul - 4,000 shops along 58 streets under one roof - was a confusing mix of color and sound as shopkeepers urged us into their shops. If you didn't bargain you paid too much.Ephesus, one of Turkey's most important archeological sites, was memorable in many ways including red poppies blooming everywhere among the ruins.The grass field where the first Olympics were held in 776 B.C. was suddenly full of men and women sprinting to the end and back.The first view of Sarande in Albania was impressive: high rise buildings. But as the ship got closer we realized that many of them were concrete shells of old unfinished buildings that we could see through.One of the most personally satisfying was the view of Athens from the Acropolis as I stood in front of the Parthenon, a model for buildings all over the world.The places visited offer tremendous diversity in people, in cultures, in languages, in architecture, reflecting their turbulent political histories. It also became clear how often natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and floods altered the course of history....
Century-Old Company Closing Down
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 5 Days 9 Hours 51 Minutes ago
KMEG 14 News - A Siouxland meat processing company will soon be closing it's doors for good. After doing business in Le Mars for more than a hundred years, Harker's has announced it's final round of job cuts. According...
Olympic Movement
Found: 2 Months 4 Weeks 21 Hours 17 Minutes ago
Telegraph Herald - Fitness centers expect boost after Beijing Games By ERIK HOGSTROM TH staff writer/ehogstrom@wcinet.com...
U.S. wins gold in men?s volleyball
Found: 2 Months 4 Weeks 21 Hours 35 Minutes ago
Charles City Press - BEIJING (AP) ?As the crowd roared and his team exulted in its gold medals, the coach of the U.S. men?s volleyball team buried his head in his hands and walked off the court. He had gone from the lowest low to the highest high, and it was all too much....
U.S. hoops back on top, beats Spain for gold medal
Found: 2 Months 4 Weeks 2 Days 3 Hours 3 Minutes ago
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier - BEIJING (AP) ?Arm-in-arm, they climbed onto the middle of the medals platform, the spot that for so long was U.S. private property....
No winner of 'Powerball'jackpot
Found: 3 Months 1 Hour 7 Minutes ago
Iowa Examiner News - None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 18-24-33-47-48 ...
Cuban athlete might be banned after kicking ref
Found: 3 Months 12 Hours 16 Minutes ago
Quad City Times - BEIJING - Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend he be banned for life....
US Men Favored In 4x400 Relay
Found: 3 Months 1 Day 7 Hours 46 Minutes ago
KCCI 8 News - Saturday marks the final full day of track and field competition at the Beijing Olympics with a total of seven gold medals being awarded....
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