WWII explosion site may be national park
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The site of a munitions explosion that crippled the main West Coast port on the Pacific during World War II and killed 320 people &#151; the majority of them black sailors &#151; may become part of the National Park System.
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City officials have identified several sites -- including some in prominent downtown locations -- they say would be suitable for the Armenian Heritage Memorial Park that supporters have been campaigning to place on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
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By CATHERINE KOZAK  By Catherine Kozak  The Virginian-Pilot  ROANOKE ISLAND  Lush, fragrant and mysterious may best describe the charms of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site , a wooded park with imprecise historical relevance and a nonexistent fort.
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By Thomas J. Prohaska  The Army and the Department of Homeland Security have been reviewing security at the site where nuclear waste from the World War II atomic bomb project is buried, it was disclosed Saturday at a public information session here.
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Japanese police were investigating a small explosion near a US army base outside Tokyo, saying they were looking into possible &quot;guerrilla&quot; involvement.
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A puzzling site grew more curious with the release of a satellite photograph showing new construction there that resembles the siteâs former main building.
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Experts have determined that the remains of about 60 people found at a construction site in central Germany were from long before World War II, police said Friday.
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An explosion was heard late Wednesday in a public park in Rawalpindi, about a half-mile from the residence of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but there were no reports of injuries, and the cause of the blast was not known.
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Masontown residents cool off near Oak Park. Many people would find it hard to believe that Camp Dawson was once the home of Italian prisoners of war during World War II, but a few Italian-American residents in ...
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Montgomery County firefighters responded to Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring this morning after a construction worker found what he thought might be the remains of a pipe bomb but instead it turned out to be an item known as an improvised launching device.
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VIENNA, Austria &#151 Whether big or small, high in the sky, or deep in the ground, if you test a nuclear bomb, someone in the Austrian capital will find out.
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Military investigators suspect a deadly explosion at a munitions dump outside Baghdad last year was caused by horseplay among some U.S. soldiers. But the truth may never be known.
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Britainâs ambassador to North Korea plans to travel tomorrow to the site of an explosion that shot a mushroom cloud into the sky to verify claims it was caused by planned blasting for a hydroelectric project.
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A defunct railway on the Far West Side is a construction site these days but from it, a park in the sky will emerge.
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Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima may have been killed 62 years ago in one of World War II's most symbolic battles.
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Two explosions hit an unused government facility, raising fears ahead of Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. There were no injures though the blasts damaged compound&#39;s wall of the government facility.
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.