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Gainesville teenager honors fallen first responders 1 mile at a time

AJC.com
On a frigid Wednesday in January, 14-year-old Andrew Collinson felt a sense of pride as he gripped the flag tightly with his right hand.
7 months ago

Union Fire District of South Kingstown Appoints Richard Collinson as New Warden

John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC
Richard Collinson was sworn in Tuesday, Jan. 3, as a member of the Union Fire District of South Kingstown Board of Wardens.
20 months ago

How Victorian Explorers and Pining Lovers Used Coded Newspaper Ads to Communicate

Mental Floss
S. lkqo. C. hgo & Tatty.” It's gibberish to you, but not to Captain Richard Collinson.
26 months ago

Codebreakers Find ‘Sexts,’ Arctic Dispatches in 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads

VICE
A group of codebreakers has finally been able to decrypt some of them and read what they said, discovering that they were actually encrypted messages from a...
26 months ago

And finally… Peterhead granite used to restore historic New York building

Scottish Construction Now
Three ornamental pillars crafted from Peterhead granite are making their way across the Atlantic for use in the restoration of a historic...
55 months ago

Lone women and the Royal Navy

Royal Museums Greenwich
The Caird Library & Archive's new display case highlights first-hand accounts of women's experiences and contributions to the...
22 months ago

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage

The New York Times
A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.
4 days ago

Deaths Tell The Story Of Life In Old Hong Kong

KERA News
The 8000 graves of Happy Valley cemetery in Hong Kong tell the island's untold early history through the lives of pirates and prostitutes,...
145 months ago

Mandatory Evacuations Moved Up To 6AM Sunday

Patch
South Kingstown officials have accelerated their mandatory evacuations of low-lying and coastal areas in advance of a dangerous Hurricane Irene this afternoon.
157 months ago

'Nobody likes him': Historian says Arctic explorer Robert M'Clure overlooked

CBC
Robert M'Clure, who advertised himself as the first to get through the Northwest Passage, is not remembered in history as a very nice person...
70 months ago