Symbol in NYC building a history mystery
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A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way warehouse.
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The provenance of a man-made forest in the shape of a swastika near the edge of the Himalayas presents a complicated mystery.
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For generations, visitors to New York City have headed to Times Square, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. But ever since Sept.
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By AMY WESTFELDT  NEW YORK - The search for the remains of Sept. 11 victims has moved across the street from the site of the World Trade Center to the lot of a destroyed church, where important relics, including the bones of three saints, may also be buried.
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A centuries-old code carved at a British manor house, according to popular legend the key to finding the Holy Grail, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, experts said.
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Archaeologists believe a settlement is linked by a road and perhaps by belief to the mysterious megalithic monument
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An online map pinpointing possible terrorist acts in real time is on its way to a renowned New York City museum as a display of the wedding of technology and human behavior.
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They say if you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere. But these days, it seems you haven't really made it unless you have that most prized of status symbols -- your very own page on Wikipedia.
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BERLIN A promise of paradise for those who carried out the Nine-Eleven attacks. That's what's in a handwritten document in Arabic that was apparently used as inspiration by the suicide hijackers.
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Up on the surface, the signs of the trouble at the Jefferson Memorial are small:
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Rocky road for boxing statue searching for its spiritual home
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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When more than 400 slaves were reburied last year at a site unearthed by construction workers in lower Manhattan, the occasion was marked by singing, dancing &#151; and promises for an elaborate memorial. Today, the site is marked by only one small sign.
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A symbol of both is the 24-foot tall statue of St. Joseph the Worker. Not quite 40 years ago, when the U.S. Steel Homestead Works ran as if it would produce steel and jobs and smoke forever, Diocese of ...
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To the sound of bagpipes and drum, a 25-foot-long steel beam, painted white and decorated with a US flag and signatures of steelworkers from Local 7 and others, was raised at the topping-off of the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in South Boston. Construction on the 471-room hotel at D and Congress streets began a year ago; it is ...
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The building that will replace the fallen World Trade Center towers is fraught with symbolism -- and reinforced as hell.
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A guide to Masonic sites around New York City, including the Statue of Liberty, Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace and George Washington's favorite tavern.