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...study shows that one in five U.S. teenagers are probably failing history - or at least should be. The grim findings from the ten-question survey by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Some 22 percent of the 1,000 students who responded in didn't know the U.S. broke away from Great Britain. Nearly 20 percent didn't know that there were 13 original colonies or that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. One-quarter didn't know who fought in the Civil War, and almost one third didn't know that Francis Scott Key wrote...
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...Sept. 14 in Williamsburg-James City Circuit Court in Virginia, Judge Samuel Powell finally got tired of sitting atop his perch and nodding like a magpie. Alfred Gabbin, 20, stood before him looking at five years for possession of drugs, and he wondered if Powell might go easy. His girlfriend was due any day, and he wanted to be there for his child...
...reached its peak with the naked guy in those Buy.com ads, think again. IUMA.com the Internet Underground Music Archive, is offering $5,000 cash to any parents willing to give their baby the first name Iuma. So far, no fewer than five babies, including little Iuma Ross, right, of Williamsburg, Pa., have benefited from the campaign. At least they didn't name the kid Yahoo...
What these Williamsburg wannabes have in common is that they are motivated equally by a desire to have their kids reconnect to their history and a desire to attract tourists. The result can be a bit surreal and even disconcerting. The quaint shopping areas sell mainly souvenirs. The history is generally sanitized. But it's important not to be cynical. In a pioneering, road-loving America, one can sense a sincere yearning to re-establish roots and restore community identity...