Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somewhat easier time of it. Landing close to their targets just after midnight, the glider troops and parachutists caught the Germans by surprise. By dawn they had captured their main objectives, the bridges across the Orne and Dives rivers, securing the eastern flank of the British landing site...
...Ritgen, as for most veterans, the war is never far from mind. On a trip to Scotland last year, he visited Culloden Moor, the site of the last battle fought between the English and the Scots. Says he: "I would like to think that Normandy began the last battle between West Europeans. It was the start of a new Europe in which we have had 40 years of peace...
...foot-by-foot survey of the historic ground. One reason there has never been a thorough investigation of the battlefield is that until last August it was covered by two-foot-tall stands of buffalo grass. A careless smoker changed that, starting a fire that denuded the site. Since digging began two weeks ago, 550 artifacts, from an Army boot to several limb bones, have been unearthed...
...Culture Ministry, which has more than doubled its budget (to $1 billion) since 1981, has been busy promoting Lang's schemes to expand the horizons of citizens. A new museum and concert hall are being built on the site of an old slaughterhouse in eastern Paris. A large new "people's opera" is on the drawing boards. Subsidies have kept books relatively cheap and at the same time prevented venerable bookshops from being killed off by discount chain stores. But Lang's free spending, including an almost completed maison des écrivains (House of Writers) with word...
Harvard didn't even submit a bid for the site Maine's bid was the only one from the same area If Maine hadn't won the ECAC tourney yesterday, the Northeast Regional would have been held in the very heartland of New England South Carolina...