Word: cahokia
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...Elgin, Ill., is teaming up with recycling contractors in cities like St. Paul, Minn., where residents can leave bags of clothing on the curb alongside paper and plastics. But some towns have sent USAgain packing. "This wasn't about goodwill for the community," says Frank Bergman, mayor of Cahokia, Ill. "This was about making money." USAgain claims it has never presented itself as a charity. "We communicate at the boxes that this is a company," says Poul Jorgensen, who heads the firm's operations in Atlanta, Dallas and New York City. But that communication is often solely through the tiny...
...seven-year-old boy in Cahokia, Ill., is suspended for having a nail clipper at school. A 10th-grader at Surry County High School in Virginia is booted for having blue-dyed hair. A Minnesota high school nixes a yearbook photo of an Army enlistee in the senior class because it shows her sitting atop a cannon outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post...
...glaciers of the Ice Age melted. By 19,000 B.C., the Indians -- a short, hardy people who suffered from arthritis and poor teeth, among other infirmities -- had built primitive homes in cliffs along Cross Creek, a few miles from present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One tribal nation, the Cahokia federation, had the sophisticated skills to build a thriving trade center of 40,000 people, across the river from what is now St. Louis, Missouri, between A.D. 1000 and 1250. But by 1300, this metropolis -- the largest on the continent north of Mexico -- had been abandoned, a victim of overdevelopment. The Cahokians...
...state since 1821. He is a walking repository of Hoosier lore, with which he delights audiences. As Branigin expounds early Indiana history, Lieut. Colonel George Rogers Clark comes out a combination of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett; Clark's conquests of Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Cahokia sound only slightly less momentous than Saratoga, Trenton and Yorktown...
Then he talked a group of St. Louis businessmen into financing his expansion, to a new Parks Airport across the river from St. Louis at Cahokia, Ill. He signed up 400 students after some whirlwind publicity. By the early thirties, he smartly anticipated a glut of pilots, shifted the emphasis to aviation engineering. Today Parks students still learn to fly, at the 113-acre campus-airport, but spend most of their 2½-year course (for a B.S. degree) on the ground. In World War II Parks trained 24,000 A.A.F. flyers at five schools...