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Camera That Saved Hubble To Be Displayed In SoCal

The famous camera that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope -- made in Pasadena -- has been retrieved from the orbiting telescope and will go on temporary exhibit next year in Southern California, the Jet Propulsion Lab has announced.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Science / Technology, Space, California, US National Parks, NASA

Sun Nov 22, 2009

WUSA9.com Washington, DC

Thousands Jam Mall For Homeless Walk

WASHINGTON, DC Nearly twenty thousand people of all ages jammed the National Mall Saturday morning for the 22nd annual Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

NewsChannel 8

Fannie Mae Holds Annual Walk in DC

Participants in a 5k walk around D.C. are fighting homelessness with their feet.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

NBC Washington

Behold! The Mall of the Future

The National Coalition to Save Our Mall thinks the current National Mall needs help.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

NewsChannel 8

New Web Site on Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is expanding beyond its marble temple for those who may not get to visit the site on the National Mall.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Victoria Star

U.S. Air and Space museum opens new spaceflight exhibit with Hubble instruments

Equipment that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from disaster in 1993 was recently returned to Earth and is going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, US National Parks, NASA

Tue Nov 17, 2009

DispatchPolitics

ODOT plans to sell off 4 airplanes, 2 helicopters

Ohio transportation officials plan to cut down on their air fleet. The Department of Transportation wants to sell four decades-old airplanes and two helicopters, more than half its 11 aircraft.

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Related Topix: Ohio, US National Parks

Sun Nov 15, 2009

UPI

A woman runs on the National Mall in Washington

A runner on the National Mall takes advantage of the unusually warm weather in Washington on November 9, 2009.

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Related Topix: US National Parks, Weather

Fri Nov 13, 2009

News-Topic

Proud to Serve: Reighard wouldn't think twice about serving his country again

George Reighard is shown with other airmen and Miss Lenoir Sharon Berry outside a plane named the City of Lenoir that he landed in Hickory in the 1950s.

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Related Topix: Hickory Metro, Lenoir, NC, US Military, US News, US Air Force, Hickory, NC, US National Parks

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Fox Charlotte

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Veterans Day is observed on Nov. 11 in the United States to honor veterans of the armed services.

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Related Topix: History in the News, Life, Veteran Affairs, US National Parks

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Free Republic

North Carolina World War II Veterans Honored in Washington

November 11 is Veteran's Day, a day when veterans of the armed forces are honored and remembered for their service and sacrifice.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, US National Parks

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Sacramento officials push for Capitol Mall redesign

Paris has the Champs-lyses. In Barcelona, it's Las Ramblas. And in Washington, D.C., it's the National Mall.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro, US National Parks

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Construction Equipment Guide

Pic: Iron Caravan Calls for D.C. Action on Highway Funds

A sea of 5,500 orange flags, each one representing 100 jobs already lost in the construction equipment industry.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Examiner.com

New Moon mall tour kicks off in Los Angeles

The New Moon national mall tour kicks off today, November 6 at the Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, US National Parks, San Francisco, CA

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Day in Pictures, Oct. 29

American and Canadian soldiers gather for a memorial service for Pfc. Devin J. Michel of Stockton, Illinois October 29, 2009 at Forward Operating Base Wilson near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: Stockton, IL, US National Parks, Mexico

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Herald-Mail

Legislation named for WWI veteran Buckles

A congressional bill named for Jefferson County World War I veteran Frank Buckles would rededicate a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Sen.

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Related Topix: History in the News, Washington DC, US National Parks

Sun Nov 01, 2009

McClatchy DC

His tiny agency has big role in energy debate

As energy increasingly dominates the economy, a quiet little agency in Washington holds the responsibility for tracking the particles that conduct, fuse, blow, heat, combust and convert the earth, wind and water into the energy that makes our society run.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Duke University, US National Parks, North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Alternative Energy, Energy

Sat Oct 31, 2009

WJLA-TV Arlington

Autism Walk on National Mall Stirs Controversy

Thousands of people converged on the National Mall Saturday for a great cause -- fighting autism.

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Related Topix: Health, Autism, US National Parks, Offbeat

Thu Oct 29, 2009

UnionLeader.com

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Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., joined fellow lawmakers yesterday in unveiling the House Democratic leadership's version of a health care reform bill that the full chamber could vote on before Veterans Day.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Carol Shea-Porter, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, Healthcare Law, Law, US National Parks, Health Insurance, Health, Medicare

WJLA

King Memorial Set to Begin in D.C.

Construction permits are finally being issued for the long-delayed Martin Luther King Jr.

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