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Crisis Magazine | 2/15/2019 | K. E. Colombini
Not too far from where I live, in a small town in the middle of the Midwest, the National Churchill Museum celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. One would expect to find a national-level...
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phys.org | 1/30/2019 | Staff
Modern agriculture's large monoculture fields grow a lot of corn and soybeans, planted annually. The outputs from row crops can be measured both in dollars paid in the market and also in non-market...
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KSTP | 12/3/2018 | Staff
“These teens were racially and religiously profiled by both the gunman and the McDonald’s,” Jaylani Hussein, with the Council on American Islamic Relations said Monday.
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KSTP | 12/2/2018 | Staff
A plane Bush flew in 1943 is on display at the Wings of the North Air Museum in Eden Prairie. The plane is even autographed by the Navy veteran. "People can read about history and when they come to...
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Breitbart | 11/15/2018 | Staff
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katherine MacGregor, who played petty, gossiping mother Harriet Oleson on TV’s “Little House on the Prairie,” has died, a representative said Wednesday. She was 93.
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TVLine | 11/14/2018 | Ryan Schwartz
Actress Katherine MacGregor, best known to TV audiences for her role as town gossiper Harriet Oleson on the long-running family drama Little House on the Prairie, has died at the age of 93.
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Rare | 11/14/2018 | Lyndsay Burginger
\r\n\r\n With a heavy heart, we are sad to announce that Katherine MacGregor, known for her role as Harriet Oleson on Little House on the Prairie died on Tuesday, November 13th in Woodland Hills,...
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Mail Online | 1/12/1925 | Lizzie Smith For Dailymail.com
Little House On The Prairie star Katherine 'Scottie' MacGregor has died age 93, sparking tributes from her co-stars. The actress died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in...
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AOL.com | 11/14/2018 | jennifer-kline
Actress Katherine MacGregor, best known to TV audiences for her role as town gossiper Harriet Oleson on the long-running family drama Little House on the Prairie, has died at the age of 93.
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phys.org | 8/14/2018 | Staff
A University of Oklahoma professor, Jizhong Zhou, and his team have completed a new study on the effects of climate warming on soil microbes in a long-term climate change experiment at a tallgrass...
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ScienceDaily | 8/14/2018 | Staff
"Understanding the responses and adaptations of biological communities to environmental changes, especially anthropogenic changes, is very challenging. Our study is the first to demonstrate that...
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New York Post | 8/7/2018 | Staff
In a unanimous decision, the Association for Library Service to Children renamed a lifetime achievement award honoring Laura Ingalls Wilder for her contribution to children’s literature.
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phys.org | 7/23/2018 | Staff
Native American communities actively managed North American prairies for centuries before Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, according to a new study led by Southern Methodist...
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dailycaller.com | 6/25/2018 | Staff
Popular children’s writer Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name has been scrubbed from an author award that once honored her. The Association for Library Service to Children voted on Saturday to rename the...
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nydailynews.com | 6/24/2018 | Kate Feldman
“It would be easy to take these books off the shelf, to say that they – like many books of their time – were steeped in white supremacy and racism and therefore they do not belong in our canon,”...
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Dallas News | 6/10/2018 | Staff
The company will also move its Texas division corporate offices to the Grand Prairie location. It's relocating operations starting in July from a smaller facility in Arlington to the Grand Prairie...
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Variety | 6/7/1928 | Ellis Clopton
“Little House on the Prairie” producer Kent McCray died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 89. McCray was born on June 7, 1928, the second son of Thomas Chapman McCray — an executive...
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Breitbart | 3/17/2018 | Staff
Actress Melissa Gilbert prefers to leave nothing to the imagination when it comes to her feelings about U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos. On her way out of the NBC Studios in New York on...
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Mail Online | 2/26/2018 | Associated Press;Dailymail.com Reporter
Garrison Keillor said several sexually suggestive emails exchanged with a former researcher on his A Prairie Home Companion radio show were 'romantic writing' that never led to a physical...
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Townhall | 12/18/2017 | Staff
Who Wants War with Iran -- and Why? In Oklahoma City, words don't mean what they plainly mean. Asking government officials simple questions prompts Orwellian acrobatics.
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Townhall | 12/6/2017 | Staff
A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal. In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely...
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Business Insider | 11/22/2017 | Jethro Nededog, INSIDER
Melissa Gilbert, who starred on "Little House on the Prairie" from 1974 to 1983, said on SiriusXM's "Andy Cohen Live" that director Oliver Stone humiliated her during an audition for 1991 movie "The...
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Rare | 11/21/2017 | Nicole Moschella
Melissa Gilbert is joining the #MeToo movement and opening up about allegedly being sexually harassed during an audition for Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “The Doors.
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Herald/Review Media (The Sierra Vista Herald) | 10/25/2017 | Staff
“(It’s a) really big day for us, big day for these guys and a big day for black-tailed prairie dogs in Arizona,” Licence said. “What I’m going to do is reach in, they’re going...
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phys.org | 10/13/2017 | Staff
Excess nitrogen gives an advantage to early season plants in Midwestern prairies, leading to further changes in prairie ecosystems, according to a recently published study from an Iowa State...
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phys.org | 10/2/2017 | Staff
A clean white plastic flume in an Iowa soybean field is testimony to a novel and possibly heretical idea: prairie plants, once plowed under by farmers growing corn and soybeans in the Midwest, yield...
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phys.org | 8/23/2017 | Staff
Across the U.S., farmers have abandoned millions of acres of land due to economics and hindrances such as dropping water tables that make irrigation of crops impossible.
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Mail Online | 3/29/2019 | Jessica Finn For Dailymail.com;Associated Press
The log cabin at the 'Little House on the Prairie' site near Independence, Kansas is getting its first, and much needed make-over since it was built back in 1977.
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Mail Online | 6/12/2017 | Kiri Blakeley For Dailymail.com
The police chief of a town famous for being the location of the Little House on the Prairie television series has been arrested in an underage sex string. Police Chief of Walnut Grove, Minnesota,...
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Editorial | 6/12/2017 | Staff
Prairie Dogs make interesting pets and this one is adorable the way it chews on this cheese while wearing a trendy dress!
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Conservative Tribune | 4/24/2017 | Chris Golden
A prairie dog hunting in Montana has Donald Trump Jr. under fire from the Humane Society, The Associated Press reported. Trump went up to Montana to hunt the black-tailed prairie dog — an animal...
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Newsmax | 3/23/2017 | Staff
A new Haribo plant is coming to Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, as the German candy maker famous for gummy bears builds its first U.S. factory by 2020. The family-owned company has sites in 10...
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phys.org | 3/19/2017 | Staff
Feeding peanut butter kibbles to millions of prairie dogs—by flinging the treats from four-wheelers and dropping them from drones—could be the next big thing to help a spunky little weasel that...
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Washington Examiner | 3/15/2017 | Anna Giaritelli
More than three decades have passed since TV series "Little House on the Prairie" went off the air, but the show seems to have maintained a large enough fan base that warrants a black market for...
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UPI | 3/10/2017 | Staff
March 10 (UPI) -- A pet prairie dog became a viral sensation for its carefree attitude after it was rescued from a house fire in Pennsylvania. Red Paw Emergency Relief Team shared photos of Vern the...
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phys.org | 2/27/2017 | Staff
An iconic bird whose booming mating calls once reverberated across "the Prairie State" can survive in Illinois with the help of periodic human interventions, researchers report.
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Editorial | 3/3/2017 | Staff
In this cute video a very sweet and tolerant Golden Retriever lets an active prairie dog climb all over him. He isn't quite as impressed with the prairie dog's efforts at grooming his foot though,...
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Mail Online | 3/3/2017 | Dailymail.com Reporter
Look out below! A prairie dog's adventure on top of a Golden Retriever ended very suddenly. Video - Rodent - Ground - Dog A video shows the curious pet rodent jumping off the ground and onto the dog.
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One America News Network | 1/31/2017 | Staff
HENDERSON, Louisiana (Reuters) – When Hope Rosinski’s father gave her a six-acre plot in Louisiana more than a decade ago, she was surprised to find oil and gas pipelines crisscrossing the property.
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realclimatescience.com | 2/20/2017 | Staff
I love prairie dogs, and 2011 the University of Colorado got $850,000 to study the impact of climate change on Boulder Prairie Dogs. Never mind that the climate isn’t actually changing in...
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realclimatescience.com | 2/18/2017 | Staff
This coyote looks like he/she was in a fight. A big chunk of fur missing. Prairie dogs always have at least one sentinel on watch for coyotes, foxes and birds of prey.
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NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth | 2/8/2017 | Staff
A Grand Prairie woman who was found guilty on two counts of illegal voting has been sentenced to eight years in prison along with a $5,000 fine on Thursday. Rosa Maria Ortega was arrested in 2015.
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Mental Floss | 2/7/2017 | Staff
There’s nothing weirder than learning that one of your favorite stories didn’t really happen that way. For the thousands of devoted fans of the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls...
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PEOPLE.com | 2/7/2017 | Mary Sollosi
This post originally appeared on EW.com. The Little House on the Prairie novels, which were inspired by author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s pioneer childhood in the 1870s and 1880s, have sold more than 60...
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phys.org | 7/29/2016 | Staff
The Kansas prairie seems like the very picture of beauty and simplicity, with undulating fields of corn and wheat stretching as far as the eye can see. But below ground, the soil bears witness to...
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Mail Online | 7/17/2016 | Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com
The Little House on the Prairie's Miss Beadle has opened up about her wild lifestyle of drugs and alcoholism. Charlotte Stewart became a household name for her role as the permanently cheery...
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Mail Online | 6/30/2016 | Dailymail.com ReporterShe's a strikingly beautiful model but even Elsa Hosk has her bad habits. The 27-year-old Victoria's Secret Angel enjoyed a cheeky cigarette on Wednesday during a leisurely stroll around the Tribeca...
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Mail Online | 6/2/2016 | Associated Press;Zoe Szathmary For Dailymail.com
Prairie Home Companion radio show host Garrison Keillor says he has suffered a brain seizure but that this week's show apparently will go on. The 73-year-old Keillor posted on Facebook on Thursday...
Tuesday Prayer Water, Life. Mystery. Amen Amen. The Rev. Terri C. Pilarski is an Episcopal priest serving a parish in...
Daughter of Chick-fil-A founder shares father’s most valuable life lesson, secret to success Trudy Cathy White, the daughter of...
A Boxing Priest? In America magazine, the Rev. Nathan W. O’Halloran, S.J., writes about — and defends — his hobby of amateur...
“Modern Monetary Theory”: Deficits Don’t Matter Remember the Republican state of outrage and trepidation when the Obama...
Bishops ask Supreme Court to hear case on racism in death sentencing Atlanta, Ga., Feb 19, 2019 / 03:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).
UK Supermoon weather forecast: Will you be able to see HUGE Supermoon TONIGHT? Why is it call a Super Snow Moon? A Supermoon...
GN acquires Altia Systems for $125M to add video to its advanced audio solutions Some interesting M&A is afoot in the world...
Pottery reveals America's first social media networks Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early...
Yellowstone volcano ERUPTION – Ear Springs Geyser spews 80 years of RUBBISH The US Geological Survey’s Yellowstone Volcano...
SendBird snags $52M Series B to expand messaging API tool SendBird, a San Francisco area startup, helps developers add...
The biggest public lands bill in a decade has something for everyone About a decade ago, conservationists asked California...
T-PAIN CANCELS SHOW AFTER GETTING HIT IN THE FACE WITH BEACH BALL T-Pain is not a fan of people throwing stuff at him during...
Kate Mara and Jamie Bell lavish their pet pooch with kisses They're reportedly expecting their first child together.
The Beckham Family Leads the Way as Stars Hit London Fashion Week London Fashion Week is in full swing, and that means the...
Oscar-nominated drama 'Never Look Away' picked up by Modern Films for UK (exclusive) Modern Films has bought UK rights to...
George Clooney’s ‘Catch-22’ Sells to Asia and Australia (EXCLUSIVE) “Catch-22” has caught the interest of several big-name...
Christine Lampard is forced to apologise after Jack Whitehall swears live on Lorraine Christine Lampard was forced to...
Raccoons Keep Calm and Carry On! These cute raccoons appear to be waiting to be fed with the front one looking to keep every...
Rare "Dumbo" Octopus! This octopus fans out its tentacles as if showing off while having its picture taken!
Subway in 1905 - New York City, NY! This short glimpse into the past reveals a time radically different from today.
This Turkey Gives Out Hugs! This turkey has a great strategy for avoiding being a Thanksgiving dinner - just give another way,...
Tornado Coming in Laramie! This classic stovepipe in Laramie is causing some havoc as it continues on its way looking very...
Short, But Torrential Downpour in Nevada! This microburst drops lots of water on the Nevada landscape!
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