U.S. Civil War Site Dedicated in France
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American cannon blasts bellowed in the English Channel 140 years ago, and bloodied bodies lined the deck of a sinking Confederate ship. Teary onlookers watched in horror from the Normandy coast.
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Maybe "freedom fries" taste better in France. After political squabbles over the Iraq war soured U.S.-French relations, more American tourists are visiting Paris this year, tourism officials say.
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Description: Next week, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will be dedicated in Cincinnati on the banks of the Ohio River. Reporter Naomi Lewin visits the museum.
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CHERBOURG, France  - A heavily guarded ship  carrying a large shipment of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium  docked in the French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday, defying  protesters who say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist  attack.
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By Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Jun. 8--HAMPTON ISLAND -- Hampton Island preserve, a vacation community  located off the coast of Georgia, has given a 1977 La France fire truck to the  town of Riceboro.
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American novelist Jonathan Littell, whose award-winning, 900-page World War II opus is written in French, has been granted French nationality.Comment
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Flamanville on Normandy&#39;s Atlantic Coast is already home to one nuclear facility, and it&#39;s about to get another. Paris plans to start building the first of a new generation of nuclear plants in 2007.
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The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration unveils a newly updated Web site that lets people call up a map of the storm that wreaked havoc on Louisiana.
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World News, Cherbourg, France: Two armed freighters carrying plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads have docked in the French port of Cherbourg.
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Paris' new memorial to the Holocaust was inaugurated Tuesday, with the French president bowing before the wall inscribed with the names of 76,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps from France.
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JARNAC, France  - On Francois Mitterrand's grave, one wreath stands out among those marking last month's anniversary of his death. Bigger than all others, it is made up of dozens of roses and a label saying simply "Segolene Royal".
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One of the world's great collections of World War I artifacts has an updated venue in Kansas City.
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Plutonium from U.S. nuclear warheads &#151; enough to make nearly 20 Hiroshima-style bombs &#151; is headed for France aboard armed freighters and a new life as commercial fuel that will ultimately light American homes.
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Pennsylvania is to use mapping website Google Earth to promote state tourism, by enabling virtual Civil War trails.
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On my way to Dior this afternoon to see John Galliano, my driver Bernard Alloux paused in the Place de la Concorde to point out a group of royalists gathered at the site where Louis XVI lost his head. Mr. Alloux said there were quite a few people in France who are royalists and then [...].
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The National Park Service wants to demolish a visitor center on one of the most significant sites of the Gettysburg battlefield.
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By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 4--On one side of the stage is a cross, on the other an American flag. In front of the cross, a white woman and a black man stand together, singing about Mount Zion.