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Finding community in America’s Appalachian region
- The 2010 U.S. Census listed Owsley County, Kentucky as having the lowest median household income in the country outside of Puerto Rico. Familial and community bonds run deep, with a populace that shares a collective historical and cultural legacy uncommon in most parts of the country.
(Getty Images photographer, Mario Tama)
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WWII on the home front
- As Memorial Day approaches, patriotic scenes of World War II in Boston and New Bedford serve as a reminder of war efforts during that time.
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Joplin tornado: One year later
- The city of Joplin, Mo., on Tuesday marked a year since a tornado struck, killing 161 people and destroying a third of city. Many people marched during a “Day of Unity” through the city’s hardest hit areas. (25 photos)
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Ring of Fire Eclipse: 2012
- A rare annular eclipse - a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and sun, blocks most, but not all, of the sun’s disc. Differing from a total solar eclipse, the moon in an annular eclipse appears too small to cover the sun completely, leaving a ring of fire effect around the moon. (49 photos total)
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Boston Latin School
- Founded in 1635, Boston Latin is the oldest existing school in the US, and many prominent Bostonians are graduates, including Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Setting sights on Roomba, Sharp unveils robotic vacuum
- It looks just like iRobot’s Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming vacuum cleaner from Sharp is trilingual, and even knows a hip humorous dialect.
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Victory Day 2012
- Russia and former Soviet republics marked the 67 years since the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II today. The Soviet Union lost an estimated 26 million people in the war, including 8.5 million soldiers. (31 photos)
Classic spring landscapes that await your camera
- While there are plenty of places close to home that make for great spring photo destinations, New England is full of wild and beautiful locations within half a day’s drive of Boston.
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Supermoon: the perigee moon of 2012
- The night sky on May 5 was animated by the once-a-year cosmic event of the perigee moon. Popularly known as the “Supermoon”, the moon appears much larger above us when the elliptical orbit brings it within 221,802 miles to Earth, the closest point. (27 photos)
Yeager works combine beauty and feminism
- The name may not mean much to those with limited knowledge of 1950s pinup girl culture, but Bunny Yeager was a pioneer in the genre. The curvaceous Yeager gained celebrity - frolicking in sexy swimsuits - in front of the lens. It wasn’t long until she discovered she enjoyed taking pictures more than posing for them.
