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nbcconnecticut.com > video > news > local > yale-exhibit-highlights-historical-impact-of-black-communities-in-new-haven > 3710474

Yale exhibit highlights historical impact of Black communities in New Haven

2+ hour, 31+ min ago  (12+ words) Yale exhibit highlights historical impact of Black communities in New Haven'NBC Connecticut...

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nbcconnecticut.com > video > news > local > connecticut-honors-wwiis-six-triple-eight-and-the-women-who-made-history > 3710467

Connecticut honors WWII's Six Triple Eight and the women who made history

2+ hour, 47+ min ago  (13+ words) Connecticut honors WWII's Six Triple Eight and the women who made history'NBC Connecticut...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > local > new-haven-announces-yearlong-events-to-commemorate-nations-250th-anniversary > 3690016

New Haven announces yearlong events to commemorate nation's 250th anniversary

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (400+ words) The events and activities focus on elevating local history and understanding democracy. As the City of New Haven marks its 242nd birthday as an incorporated city, local leaders are already looking ahead to a much larger milestone: the 250th anniversary of the…...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > local > meridens-world-war-ii-monument-damaged-in-crash > 3670218

Meriden's World War II monument damaged in crash

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (134+ words) A World War II monument in Meriden was damaged Sunday when a pickup truck crashed into it, according to police. It happened around 8:40 p.m. by the median barrier on Memorial Boulevard where it separates Broad Street just south of East Main…...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > local > unpublished-slave-narrative-found-stowe-center-hartford > 3666654

Unpublished slave narrative found at Stowe Center in Hartford

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (422+ words) The life story of a Virginian man born into slavery more than 200 years ago was found at the Stowe Center in Hartford. Hundreds of documents and artifacts are kept at the Stowe Literary Center for Activism, many of which belong…...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > national-international > yad-vashem-5-million-holocaust-survivors-identified > 3659689

Names of 5 million Holocaust victims identified, Israel's Yad Vashem says

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (603+ words) Then last year, Koza-Culp typed her great-grandmother's maiden name, Litvak, into an online database and discovered something she never could have imagined. Two of her great-grandmother's siblings had survived. One of those siblings had a son living in Israel " and…...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > national-international > divers-recover-artifacts-britannic-titanic-sister-ship > 3639270

Divers recover artifacts from the Titanic’s sister ship Britannic for the first time

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (258+ words) Divers have recovered artifacts from'the Titanic's'sister ship, the Britannic, for the first time since the ocean liner sank in the Aegean Sea more than a century ago after striking a mine during'World War I. The Culture Ministry'in Greece'said Monday that an…...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > national-international > sunken-city-treasures-pulled-2000-years-egypt > 3629284

A sunken city's treasures are pulled from the depths after 2,000 years

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (261+ words) Archaeologists and divers retrieved a trove of ancient treasures Thursday from a 2,000-year-old sunken city off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. Cranes carefully lifted these ancient artifacts from the shallow seawater of Abu Qir bay throughout the day, in front…...

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > local > 70-years-since-devastating-flood-of-1955 > 3627306

Today marks 70 years since the devastating Flood of 1955

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (415+ words) One of the worst natural disasters to hit Connecticut struck 70 years ago today. On Aug. 19, 1955, rivers across the state raged out of their banks, destroying entire villages and killing nearly 100 people. The records from the Flood of '55 still stand today....

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nbcconnecticut.com > news > national-international > chamber-of-horrors-ireland-baby-mass-grave > 3619537

‘Chamber of horrors’: Remains of hundreds of babies to be exhumed from mass grave in Ireland

7+ mon, 4+ day ago  (969+ words) Only one stone wall remains of the old mother and baby home in this town, but it has cast a shadow over all of Ireland. A mass grave that could hold up to nearly 800 infants and young children " some of…...