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Rubbish remover finds 1897 Grant program
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- A New York rubbish remover hired to clean out an apartment said he discovered a program from the 1897 dedication of President Ulysses S. Grant's tomb.
Reagan $50 bill draws opposition
WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scholars and politicians say they will resist a new effort to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill.
Wal-Mart wants store near battlefield
FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Preservationists say Wal-Mart faces a fight over its plans to put a huge store next to the Civil War Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia.
Lawsuit settled over Civil War materials
CARBONDALE, Ill., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The Ulysses S. Grant Association and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale have reached an out-of-court settlement over Civil War materials, the school said.
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Defense Focus: Weapons evolution -- Part 1
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- Charles Darwin was right -- at least for weapons systems: Principles of evolution and the struggle for survival of the fittest apply there all the time. Weapons systems have to keep evolving. And when they can't evolve any more -- they die.
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