Five sites in Culpeper County were indirectly named among “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” – the 2005 list issued Thursday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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The National Park Service found that recreating Sunken Road in Fredericksburg, Va., as a dirt road, wasn’t as simple as it sounds.
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A preservation group has been trying to stop a developer from building homes on a battlefield in Culpeper, Va.
Originally from WTOP Radio
The Golden Oaks property is believed to have to seen the heaviest fighting during the Battle of Brandy Station — a day-long clash that left more than 1,000 dead.
A fossil from a remote Chinese region overturns opinion on the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
Originally from BBC News
New data casts doubt on the popular theory that big North American mammals were wiped out by human hunting.
Originally from BBC News
America’s first permanent colonists have long been considered lazy and incompetent, but new evidence suggests that it was a prolonged drought, not indolence, that almost did them in.
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On the central Peruvian coast, more than 5000 years ago, people switched from hunting to building pyramids in less than 150 years.
Originally from New Scientist
Archeologists have discovered a tomb filled with decapitated bodies, which suggests that Mexico’s 2,000 year-old “Pyramid of the Moon” may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices.
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