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World War II fighter ace Fritz Payne dead at 104; helped US, Allies win Battle of Guadalcanal

08/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
LOS ANGELES – Frederick R. “Fritz” Payne, a World War II fighter ace who left his mark on aviation and wartime history by shooting down six Japanese warplanes during the Battle of Guadalcanal, a bloody, months-long confrontation that helped change…

Taxpayers funding portion of Smithsonian’s Bill Cosby art exhibit?

07/15/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
LOS ANGELES – Despite the dozens of accusations of drugging, rape and sexual assault against Bill Cosby, the federally-funded Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is continuing with its current exhibition “Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue,” which…

Two more Cosby accusers speak out, demand courts unseal 2006 depositions

07/13/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Nov. 6, 2014:Bill Cosby gestures during an interview about the upcoming exhibit, “Conversations: African and African-American Artworks in Dialogue, ” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) The Cosby saga is deepening by…

No takers for "Bo Duke’s" own General Lee

07/02/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
(Julien’s Auctions) With more and more retailers banning products that feature the Confederate flag, the opportunity to buy one is becoming rarer every day. This is especially true of replicas of the General Lee from “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV…

9-foot ‘butcher crocodile’ likely ruled before dinosaurs

03/19/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
A life reconstruction of the giant crocodile ancestor (Carnufex carolinensis) that lived some 231 million years ago in what is now North Carolina. (Copyright Jorge Gonzales. Open access) A 9-foot-tall beast with bladelike teeth once stalked the warm and wet…

150 years later, Union sailors from USS Monitor to be buried at Arlington

03/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The bodies were found when the USS Monitor’s rusty gun turret was raised from the ocean floor. ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a…