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Archive for August 2006

August 7, 2006

 

The Gas Boom

The Department of Natural Resources' oil and gas division documents 338 active, permitted noncommercial gas wells in Indiana, with about ten added per year.

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August 14, 2006

 

Middletown

Muncie, Indiana was the heart of an ethnological study to chart everyday life in middle America in the 1920s.

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August 21, 2006

 

Go West, Young Man!

"Go West, young man!" sums up the pioneering spirit of the nineteenth century. The origin of this slogan for Manifest Destiny, however, is not as clear.

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August 28, 2006

 

Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks directed The Twentieth Century --a 1934 movie starring his second cousin and Fort Wayne native Carole Lombard.

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