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‘A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him,’ humorist and actor Will Rogers once said. The legendary Rogers loved to ride and rope on his 186-acre ranch, which is now Will Rogers State Historic Park, and this is an Article Info

Early Days. In the early, rough-&-tumble days of flying Glenn Martin was an incongruous figure. Solemn as a preacher, he dressed in black with a tall white collar, wore a businesslike helmet when he flew. Other pinfeather fliers, who turned their Article Info

AVALON, Calif., Oct. 21 (UPI) — Federal investigators Tuesday searched the wreckage of a small plane that crashed at the small airport on California’s Catalina Island, killing three people. Many questions remained about Monday’s crash, The Orange Article Info

Kern County, southern San Joaquin Valley Marik Knapp, 12, of Bakersfield attempts to hold up his 20-plus-pound Silver Salmon he recently caught on a trip to Chilkat Lake, Alaska. Marik’s dad and uncle all fished for seven days limiting out each day Article Info

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Indiana University archaeologists have won a $200,000 grant to turn the wreckage of a ship pirate Captain Kidd is believed to have commandeered and three other Caribbean sites into living museums that also preserve Article Details

Catch some winter sun on Thomson Cruises ship Celebration with this deal offered by Cruise118.com (0800 280 2614, www.cruise118.com ) departing from Tenerife on November 28. The ship calls at Gran Canaria, La Palma, Madeira, Morocco and Lanzarote Article Details

VICTORVILLE When the humdrum routine and pressures of life set in, who doesn t dream of chucking it all and sailing off into the sunset? Local couple Carrie and Bryan Bershee took that dream literally, spending a year sailing the Baja Article Details

AVALON Three people were killed and another person injured when their small plane crashed after takeoff Monday near Catalina Island Airport. The plane burst into flames, triggering a small brush fire that firefighters contained at under 2 acres Article Details

1942: The motion picture “Casablanca,'’ starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere in New York City. 1957: “The Chirping Crickets'’ by Buddy Holly and the Crickets was released. It contained the singles “That’ll Be the Day Article Details

YORBA LINDA - “Dad, I think you need to prepare yourself,” Kim Bailey told her father. “Nothing is going to prepare you for this. Hold on tight.” The home he and his wife had shared for more than 20 years - packed with memories and invaluable items
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Sail away - Victorville Daily Press
VICTORVILLE When the humdrum routine and pressures of life set in, who doesn t dream of chucking it all and sailing off into the sunset? Local couple Carrie and Bryan Bershee took that dream literally, spending a year sailing the Baja
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‘Expedition Week’ a triumph for Nat Geo, begins Nov. 16 - Monsters and Critics
Seven nights of incredible stuff, the first of which will thrill the Egyptologists out there as Nat Geo’s producers find a brilliant Frenchman architect who ditched his lucrative career and devoted his life to unlocking the construction secrets of
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IU to turn Kidd shipwreck into ‘living museum’ - 14 WFIE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Indiana University is getting a $200,000 grant to turn the wreckage of a pirated 17th century ship into a “living museum.” The funding comes two months after IU scientists announced that they had found evidence confirming
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