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Lafayette municipal golf course turns 100, celebrates community history

The Advocate 22 Mar 2026
For drivers passing by on Louisiana Avenue, the Lafayette municipal golf course is a sea of green in the urban heart of the city, dotted with live oaks, water hazards and golf carts visible through a three-story high netting that ... .
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Questions remain after ODU asks students to reveal criminal history in the name of heightened safety

The Daily Gazette 22 Mar 2026
NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion University said it would not punish students who fail to respond to a questionnaire about their criminal histories, and maintained it took the unusual step in the name of campus safety. “We understand that students ... .
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[LAUGHING THROUGH HISTORY 25] 'A Visitor from Seoul Was Totally Fooled by a Child from ...

Korea Times 22 Mar 2026
One recurring theme of 20th-century Korean literature is the conflict between the country and the city, usually meaning Seoul. When “Kkalkkal Useum” was published in 1916, Korea’s population was overwhelmingly rural.
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From HS wrestler to NCAA champ in 12 months, Jax Forrest makes history

GoErie 22 Mar 2026
Watch Jax Forrest discuss NCAA wrestling semifinal victory over Seidel. Forrest, a freshman at Oklahoma State, advanced to the 133-pound final with a 14-3 win over Virginia Tech’s Aaron Seidel ... Star-studded semifinal ... It did ...
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Texas makes history as Longhorns become sixth First Four Team to reach Sweet 16

Sportingnews 22 Mar 2026
3 Gonzaga 74-68 on Saturday night at the Moda Center, becoming just the sixth First Four team in NCAA Tournament history to advance to the Sweet 16 - and the first to do so since UCLA's Final Four run in 2021.
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History hits a wall, no access to Sukhdev Thapar’s Ludhiana house possible by freedom fighter’s death anniversary.

The Times of India 22 Mar 2026
Ludhiana ... 'We demanded direct access by March 23, but with the building still standing, we have lost hope ... A planned ₹14.56 lakh relocation of Major Bhupinder Singh's statue and tank from Rose Garden to Bharat Nagar Chowk remains stalled ... MSID..
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Statues from northern Colorado foundry find new home at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

CBS News 22 Mar 2026
Two statues from a foundry in Northern Colorado have completed a that lasted over a week and are now installed in front of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ... Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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New book reveals hidden history of Annamite penal colony

Vietnam News 22 Mar 2026
Their lives and fates have largely remained obscure, forgotten in the histories of both Việt Nam and France ... The result of her thorough research into this neglected chapter of history appears in her book Le Bagne des Annamites.
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Perry: We'll celebrate America's 250 years together

Journal Gazette 22 Mar 2026
Writing the first rough draft of history is an awesome responsibility ... People are also reading… ... Contested federal, state races highlight Coles Co ... Sanders ... Scott Perry ... jg-tc.com/archives ... Abraham Lincoln down in history among the truly great men ... .
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Glancing Back for March 21: All-Area boys' basketball team announced

Journal Gazette 22 Mar 2026
Today in history ... Today in sports history ... Oscar Robertson records first triple-double in NCAA tournament's Final Four history ... Louis becomes sixth player in NHL history to score 70 goals in a season.
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Willoughby: Western fiction and Aspen’s Fred Glidden, ‘Luke Short’

Aspen Times 22 Mar 2026
Several of my recent columns have pointed out that life today has many resemblances to the long ago past. The following is about the opposite, that some things have mostly come to an end — or at least the scope has ... That peaked in the 1960s ... .
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The Coup, the Nakba, and the Black Rain

Dissident Voice 22 Mar 2026
The histories Talbot and Pappé excavate show how we got here ... people roll the dice with larger and hotter stakes, or whether we treat this as a final credit‑limit notice from physics and from history.
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A moment in local history: The first steam roller, by Alan F. Rumrill

The Keene Sentinel 21 Mar 2026
During the 1890s the City of Keene decided to macadamize some of the streets in the city. This involved rolling successive layers of small broken stones onto the road surface. In Keene, as in most cities at that time, this ... .
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