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Confederate museum to share surprising collection
Found: 1 Week 6 Days 3 Hours 9 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - With surgical gloves, S. Waite Rawls III pulls out a large drawer in the basement of the Museum of the Confederacy to reveal a startling display: dolls the size of children, neatly lined up like small bodies on a morgue slab.
The dolls are among what the museum calls the "world's most comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts," a trove valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Rawls, the museum's president and CEO.
But at any given time, only 10 percent to 15 percent of the museum's holdings are on display on the building's three floors. The rest remains tucked away in gray cabinets, boxes stacked high and, in the case of delicate flags, in clear, sealed containers designed to hold the ancient stitching in place.
In 2011, a portion of the museum collection is scheduled to go on the road, journeying to three historic Virginia sites as part of a plan to bring the artifacts of the Civil War to the people.
While half of the collection will remain at the Richmond museum, the satellite exhibits will draw upon a vast number of artifacts. The 15,000 items include:...
Warrick County 4-H Fair final results
Found: 2 Weeks 5 Days 15 Hours 27 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - Results for the 4-H competitions at the Warrick County 4-H Fair.
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Egyptian septuplets'mom hopes to hold them soon
Found: 2 Weeks 6 Days 3 Hours 37 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon.Ghazala Khamis was still hospitalized after giving birth a day earlier to four boys and three girls. She said she is "very anxious to see them"and to breast-feed at least some of them."I saw them on TV. They are very cute,"she told The Associated Press from her hospital bed in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria."I am just waiting to hold them in my arms and breast-feed them,"she said in a weak voice. "I don't know if I can do it to all, but I will try."Her husband and other relatives are brainstorming names, said Khamis, who took fertility drugs to conceive in an effort to produce a son. She is already the mother of three girls, ages 7 to 11....
Egypt: Septuplets'mother hopes to hold them soon
Found: 2 Weeks 6 Days 7 Hours 18 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - An Egyptian mother of septuplets says she's only seen her babies on TV but hopes to hold them and name them soon.Ghazala Khamis is still hospitalized after giving birth Saturday to four boys and three girls. She told The Associated Press on Sunday that she's "very anxious to see them"and to breast-feed at least some of them.She says she's "only watched them on TV"and finds them "very cute."Her doctor, Emad Darwish, says the babies remain in incubators but are in good condition. He says they weigh between about three and six pounds.Khamis took fertility drugs to conceive, and was hospitalized two months ago in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria. She is already the mother of three girls....
Two arrested after using barbecue pit as a weapon
Found: 3 Weeks 5 Days 2 Hours 14 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - A man and a woman found a new use for a barbecue pit - one that landed them in jail. An argument over whether a third guest should stay in the house got so heated that the woman picked up the barbecue pit and hit the man over the head with it, police said.The man picked up the barbecue pit and returned the favor and hit the woman in the head with it, police reported. The woman then told police that she picked up the barbecue pit and hit the back window of the man's car with it.Police admit that the whole situation was confusing, but after medics treated the man and the woman, they were handcuffed, read their rights and taken to jail.The man was booked on a charge of aggravated battery and the woman was booked with aggravated battery and simple criminal damage to property valued less than $500....
Cats take Dogs 10-5
Found: 4 Weeks 1 Day 22 Hours 24 Minutes ago
The Morehead News - The Wildcats took the Bulldogs in the first round of tournament play Thursday night. The teams traded the lead for three innings before the Cats pulled ahead for the 10-5 win....
Discount-shopping bike riders
Found: 1 Month 2 Weeks 3 Days 1 Hour 43 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader -
NEW YORK . Adrienne Radtke plans to keep riding her bike to work even if gas prices drop. Steve Pizzini got rid of his Cadillac Escalade in favor of a 16-year-old Acura and doesn't expect to have another gas-guzzler.
.I had a paradigm shift,. said Pizzini, a financial analyst. .I spent the money on a nice car. But to me, it's not worth it. I don't think I will go that route again..
Every economic downturn changes shoppers in some way. But this time, experts say the new behavior . fueled by higher gas and food prices, tightening credit and a slumping housing market . are the most dramatic and widespread that they have seen since the mid-1970s.
So retailers, marketers and investors are all trying to figure out which habits shoppers will keep and which ones they will drop when the economy recovers. Will the people who switched to store-brand ice cream go back to Breyers or Edy's? Will shoppers return to department stores or keep looking for labels at T.J. Maxx? ...
KHSAA brings instruction to soccer referees
Found: 1 Month 3 Weeks 1 Day 12 Hours 23 Minutes ago
The Morehead News - There?s more to wearing the referee uniform, blowing the whistle and making the calls at a soccer game. Referees undergo training on how to dress and act appropriately at games as well. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) officials came to Morehead July 11 to 12 to host a training session...
South Shore?s run continues
Found: 1 Month 3 Weeks 1 Day 22 Hours 58 Minutes ago
The Daily Independent - As one local team fell in an epic, another won a thriller in the 2008 Kentucky Little League Softball Tournament on Monday at the Russell-Flatwoods Baseball Complex....
Crew Installs Pre-Fabricated Bridge
Found: 1 Month 4 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 50 Minutes ago
WKYT 27 News - The construction started Tuesday morning on Appomattox Road, near Alexandria Drive and the workers are using a method you don't usually see around here....
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