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More than 15 years after a battered old coin was discovered in an ancient Indian rubbish heap near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...
...years, we have maintained that we will not accept certain advertisements that have been shown to contribute, in a specific way, to the oppression or exploitation of a defined group or class. That reasoning led us last year to refuse ads for the South Africa Krugerrand gold coin, and to reject advertisements placed by the South Africanbased de Beers diamond mining firm. ads, it was clear, enabled one group of people to perpetrate specific economic and political injustices against the blacks of- South Africa. For us to have accepted money for those ads would have given us, in effect, clients...
...coin machine was opened with a key found in the safe, Chafin said...
Heather E. Coles, librarian at Hilles and Lamont libraries, said the library routinely keeps large amounts of money in the safe and in the coin machine...
...coin machine is used heavily and needs to be filled at least two times a week; we can't send a staff member tearing out to get change," she added...