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This circa 1983-1988 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives shows 172 Norfolk Street, which is now the Angel Orensanz Foundation, in New York. Over 800,000 color photographs were taken with 35-mm cameras for tax purposes. Every New York City building in the mid-1980s can be viewed in this collection. Over 870,000 photos from an archive that exceeds 2.2 million images have been scanned and made available online, for the first time giving a global audience a view of a rich collection that documents life in New York City. (AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives)

New York City history in pictures

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 10:46am

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Staff Sgt. Hazam Peralta shows fifth-grader Lukas Tibbets how to properly fold an American flag at Bluff Ridge Elementary School in Syracuse on Tuesday. Airmen from Hill Air Force Base visited fifth-graders at the school to teach them proper flag etiquette.

Fabric of our nation: Airmen teach how to treat Old Glory right

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 11:41pm

SYRACUSE -- When it comes to learning about the American flag, textbooks are good, but real-life service members are even better.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) A restored Roy city fire truck is on display at the Roy Historical Museum. The museum is short of funds and volunteers and is currently only open from noon to 4 p.m. four days a week. It may have to close.

Roy museum short of funds, volunteers may have to close

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 11:47pm

ROY -- The Roy Historical Museum is short on funds and volunteers, so it may exist only a short time more.

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(JENNIFER MEYERS/The Herald Journal) Utah State University business student Luis Patino, of Mexico, sits outside the business building where he works in Logan. Patino became a U.S. citizen in April.

Citizenship out of reach for some with green card

Kate Duhadway Herald Journal

Last updated Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 11:50pm

LOGAN -- There is nothing Emiliano Gouarca wants more than to become a U.S. citizen. But because the 50-year-old Mexican immigrant had never been taught to read or write in any language, he failed the citizenship test twice and, after spending more than $3,700 in lawyer and application fees, now has to start over.

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Alaska fishing boat captain fights to keep moon rock

Mike Carter The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, July 18, 2011 - 10:42pm

SEATTLE — Coleman Anderson wants to keep his little piece of the moon. Whether he does will depend on the outcome of an unusual lawsuit playing out in an Alaska court.

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The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/Tim Donnelly)

NASA's last space shuttle, Atlantis, launches

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 1:50pm

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) At the 142nd anniversary of the completion of the trans-continental railroad at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit on Tuesday, people in period clothing re-enact the driving of the golden spike.

Re-enactment celebrates transcontinental railroad

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 11:19pm

PROMONTORY -- If you thought the driving of the last spike to join the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, took place at Promontory Point, you're not alone.

That point was made Tuesday by Promontory resident Ron Porter at the 60th annual re-enactment of the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Summit, 35 miles north of Promontory Point.

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Natalie Betten of Roy, dressed in period clothing, drove her late husband's 1930 Ford Model A to the 142nd anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Tuesday, May 10, 2011. The celebration included a reenactment of the driving of the final golden spike. (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

The 142nd anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, May 10, 2011.

Erin Hooley, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 9:24am

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(ALICE KEENEY/The Associated Press) Reenactors fire mortars from the Pitt Street Bridge toward Fort Sumter to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago in Charleston, S.C. on Tuesday.

The cost of unity: 150 years later, America remembers the start of the Civil War

Bruce Smith, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 9:10pm

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America's bloodiest war on Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War.

The events marked the 150th anniversary of the Confederate bombardment of Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, an engagement that plunged the nation into four years of war at a cost of more than 600,000 lives.

Several hundred people gathered on Charleston's Battery in the pre-dawn darkness, much as Charleston residents gathered 150 years ago to view the bombardment of April 12, 1861.

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