'America's Playground' to undergo $1billion transformation to give battered beach town new life

It is known as the location for the iconic Nathan's July 4 hot dog eating contest but in recent years has taken a battering ...
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January's imprint on aviation: founding flights, industry firsts and early trailblazers

The world's first scheduled air service was launched in Jan-1914. A number of other flights achieving 'firsts' also took ...
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Death of Coolidge shocks Washington

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the United States, died suddenly today at his home in Northampton. He succumbed, according to physicians, to a heart attack that had ...