Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island
Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to ...
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Fall River Maritime Museum gets preservation funding ahead of reopening. What's planned.
FALL RIVER — The Maritime Museum at 70 Water St. is soon to get a new look. The city will deploy a little over $78,000 of ...
Deseret News archives: Ellis Island closed in 1954, but its place in history lives on
On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.
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New Emperor To Musical Legend — On This Day In History Nov. 12
The closing of the U.S. busiest immigrant processing station, the crowning of a new emperor in Japan and the birthday of the “Godfather of Grunge.” ...
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'Round the Square: Immigration station
The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...
'That was the greatest day of all our lives': The migrants who passed through Ellis Island
Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...
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New York City Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour
Icons of American liberty and freedom, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island have long been a mainstay of the New York skyline and its history. Stretching back to the Dutch colonial settlement in the ...