The government will begin taking land from seven Somerset County property owners so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Park Service said.
“We always prefer to get that land from a willing seller. And sometimes you can just not come to an agreement on certain things,” park service spokesman Phil Sheridan said.
Here in Pennsylvania Dutch country pow-wowing was very common in the old days. There was a definite procedure in seeking relief for ills and pains like mine.
I was told how it worked back when I was a kid: When my mom or grandmom couldn’t cure the ills or pain with herbal remedies, tonics, mud plasters, ointments, salves or chicken soup, instead of calling a doctor, they sought the help of a
Police today tried to allay growing concern that a “zero tolerance” approach during the summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge could lead to serious trouble.
Officers maintained they would police the ancient site in a fair and sensitive manner and played down comparisons to the tense build-up to last month’s G20 protests and to notorious clashes of the past such as the Battle of the Beanfie
Perhaps if Bob Murch had thought to ask his first Ouija board, it might have told him what was ahead: meandering trips through dank graveyards, hours of rooting through archives for patent files and court transcripts, landing in the middle - and helping resolve - a nearly 100-year feud between the families of the two Baltimore brothers who marketed the “all-knowing” slab of wood.
But he didn’t,
Less than a year after a federal judge ruled the Wilson County school district illegally promoted religion, the same judge has ruled it cannot ban religious phrases from student posters.
The ruling comes in time for students at Lakeview Elementary School to promote their prayer event for the National Day of Prayer on today.
The Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of five families
A friend, a Pakistani journalist, recently came out of the troubled Swat valley in northwest Pakistan and told a chilling tale. He said, “It is now halal [religiously sanctioned] to kill journalists.”
The tribal Muslim clerics in Swat, he said, have declared open season on reporters whose writings they disapprove of. My friend, a brave and devout Sunni Muslim, seemed quite shaken, having spent
The White House is planning a muted observance of Thursday’s National Day of Prayer, a response that has disappointed both Christian conservatives and an atheist group that wants to end the tradition.
Congress established the day in 1952 and in 1988 set the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibb
Signs abound that more Americans are leaving Christianity and embracing a secular worldview. The cover of Newsweek recently proclaimed “The End of Christian America.” Books like The God Delusion and God Is Not Great have topped bestseller lists. David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association, which is working to organize nonbelievers into a national movement, says, “Our membership has
Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles “Chip” Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ago.
Indeed, eBay has drastically altered the transporting and selling of illegal artifacts, Stanish writes in an article in the May/June issue of Archaeology, but not in the way he and other archaeologists h
Lady Urania was a witch.
The tools of her magic crowd the spaces of her suburban home, especially in a darkened inner sanctum.
Masks representing the three faces of Wiccan womanhood mother, maiden and elderly sage preside over a closet of herbs and spices in dozens of jars, not far from a mask of the horned god, Pan, and quarter moons with faces.
Lady Urania the ceremonial name of L
