Thursday, November 28, 2019

In the news, Wednesday, November 20, 2019


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from AP  Associated Press - Media/News Company

Apple detectives comb US Northwest for ‘lost’ varieties
E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago.

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from The Guardian (UK)

100 years of Scottish life - in pictures
Scotland’s Photograph Album: The MacKinnon Collection celebrates Scottish life and identity from the 1840s through to the 1940s. The photographs were amassed by collector Murray MacKinnon and illustrate a century of dramatic transformation and innovation.

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

American Naval Initiative—The Next Time Around
In November of 1942, the U.S. Navy wrested the warfighting initiative from imperial Japan and set the course toward victory. Less than a year after Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor and proclaimed that all of Asia belonged to Emperor Hirohito, American successes in two naval battles permanently altered the course of the war. In the words of the Naval War College, the “operational initiative” lay with the American Navy.

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

'Game of Thrones' actor filming new movie in Spokane
Local production company North by Northwest is helping shoot a movie called “All Those Small Things.

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from Medium
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  MIXED, online social journalism publishing platform

A Future Union General Accurately Predicts the South’s Defeat and Devastation in the Civil War


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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  Newspaper in Seattle, WA

Botanists scour old Northwest homesteads for long-lost apple varieties
E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago. The two are racing against time to preserve a slice of homesteader history: The apple trees are old, and many are dying. Others are being ripped out for more wheat fields or housing developments for a growing population.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Tri-City Herald
Newspaper in Kennewick, Washington

Apple detectives comb US Northwest for ‘lost’ varieties
E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago.


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