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Archive for March 2006

March 6, 2006

 

Daylight Saving Time

In Indiana, time itself has its own history. The state has always bucked the trend toward the standardization of time, Daylight Saving Time included.

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March 13, 2006

 

Hoosier Hysteria

It was invented in Massachussetts in 1891, but basketball's inventor claimed the game, "really had its origin in Indiana." And so began Hoosier Hysteria.

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March 20, 2006

 

Historic National Road

Interstate Highway 70 began as a conduit from the east to the interior west conceived of by George Washington, realized slowly as The Historic National Road.

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March 27, 2006

 

Persimmons

Food connoisseurs prize native persimmons, Diospyros virginiana, Latin for "food of the gods." The burnt-oragne fruit is indigenous to the Wabash Valley.

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