Recreation and Social Life
In antebellum America (1840–1860), recreational and social amusements tended to differ according to region, ethnicity, class, and gender. Rural communities frequently...
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Recreation
The term recreation comes from the Latin word recreatio, referring to refreshment, restoration, or recovery. The modern notion of recreation is complex, and many definitions have been sug...
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Sig Libowitz played a lawyer on TV before he became one in real life. Now, he's bringing his entertainment industry expertise to the debate over the rights of suspected enemy combatants.Working fro...
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A new Web site makes it easier to plan trips to federal recreation sites, from monuments and historic attractions to forests, parks and scenic byways.Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and S...
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Rather than head outside for a recreational adventure, athletes in Missouri can head underground _ to scuba dive, play tennis and, if one man has his way, even try their hand at subterranean ice sk...
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Researchers have finally confirmed a 20-year-old theory about how the red tide algae produce their toxins.The finding may be a first step in protecting seaside communities, shellfish beds, marine m...
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A replica of the Amsterdam room where Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote her diary will be housed in a British cathedral as part of a commemoration of the Holocaust.The exhibit at Liverpool's Anglica...
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Each year Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal at Ganesh Galli has had an innovative décor to celebrate Ganeshotsav. This year too, on its 80th year, the mandal has created a replica of Swaminaraya...
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More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march _ and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break poli...
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The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin's new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, ...
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Trees and grasses like those that members of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations saw when they stopped along a stretch of Coleman Creek may soon grow again at the site where the Indians rested during...
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