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National Park profile: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
 April 25, 2019 - Very few private homes are so historically significant the location has been designated a national park site. The New Hampshire home of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), sculptor, has. He sculpted Civil War memorials, the Standing Lincoln sculpture, and the $20 double eagle gold coin that is considered one of the most beautiful coins ever minted.  Word of the Daymanicured: verb;finely finished, neatly cut, polished; Find it in blue in today's top story!Writing Practice
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Extra! Extra! Feature Article Douglas Brinkley to students: Lead a dignified lifeSept. 21, 2018 - Douglas Brinkley eloquently delivered the Keynote Address at last Friday's Student News Net Symposium. Read More
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Douglas Brinkley, author of Rosa Parks: A Life, speaks at the Student News Net Symposium on Sept. 14, 2018.. Weekly VOCABWeek of April 22 buttresses: noun; stone or brick supports against a wall that are characteristic of Gothic architecture;Notre Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt after fire crevices: noun; small openings, breaks in larger structures, such as rocks and trees; Species Spotlight: Red-bellied woodpecker determination: Select Part of speech...; resolution, decision, fact, something that is determined; Record flooding in South Dakota gibberish: Select Part of speech...; words or letters that have no meaning or cannot be interpreted without being decoded; Code Girls at home saved soldiers' lives in Normandy Today In HistoryApril 26 1986: The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine had a catastrophic accident resulting in the release of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Thousands of people from the surrounding area were permanently displaced because of the accident.1822: Library of Congress: Frederick Law Olmsted, nineteenth-century America's foremost landscape architect, was born. Son of a well-to-do Hartford, Connecticut, merchant, Olmsted spent much of his childhood enjoying rural New England scenery. Weakened eyesight forced him to abandon plans to attend Yale. Instead, young Olmsted studied engineering and scientific farming, putting his agricultural and managerial theories into practice on his own Staten Island farm. More from Student News Net
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Studio glass art is a recent development but creating functional glass from silica sand is thousands of years old. Through this Student News Net video, tour the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington to marvel at the beauty of glass and the chemical elements! Student News Net was there in 2017. Read More: Seattle sights are simply stupendous Pink diamonds are rareSept. 3, 2013 (update: 2016) Over 90 percent of the world's pink diamonds come from The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia. Pink Diamonds are very rare and very expensive, but all diamonds are tetrahedrons of carbon atoms.  A rush for gold ended quicklyMay 12, 2016 - The story of the short-lived Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) is told at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in downtown Seattle.  Glass: a hot and cool combo of art and scienceMarch 22, 2016 - Glassblowing is a red hot, totally cool combination of art and science. In The News National Park profile: Saint-Gaudens National Historical ParkApril 25, 2019 - Very few private homes are so historically significant the location has been designated a national park site. The New Hampshire home of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), sculptor, has. He sculpted Civil War memorials, the Standing Lincoln sculpture, and the $20 double eagle gold coin that is considered one of the most beautiful coins ever minted.  National Park profile: WhiskeytownApril 24, 2019 - It's National Park Week. Today's profile is Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in northern California.  Spy Museum to reopen May 12April 23, 2019 - The International Spy Museum will reopen on May 12 at its new location in Washington DC.  National Park Week begins SaturdayApril 18, 2019 - National Park Week begins Saturday, April 20 and extends through Sunday, April 28, 2019.   |
