For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Patna, Aug. 30: The Bihar government will beef up security in long-distance trains passing through “disturbed areas of the state” in the wake of several attacks on railway property and passengers in recent times.
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More cops on trains (The Telegraph)
Mamata Banerjee might have opposed the R & R bill, but she has already chalked out her plans of using vast tracts of unused railway land for commercial purposes.
More here: 'Railways to use PPP model to develop landbanks' (The Times of India)
AMY CORTESE Upstart companies are challenging the running-shoe status quo with thin-sole designs meant to combine the benefits of going barefoot with a layer of protection.
Continue here: Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
ATHENS -- The peculiar charm of the anthropomorphic gods of classical Greece is that they were so like us, exemplifying our weaknesses and follies, inspiring the mortal occupants of Attic Greece to the invention of philosophy -- the application of natural reason to the causes and meaning of existence -- and to tragedy, which deals with the irony and confrontation with justice that destroys a ...
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Blame the State of the Economy on the Midas Touch (CBS 6 Richmond)
Many come to the fair for the tilting, twirling rides, cornucopia of food and the entertainment. Ray Baird is drawn by history and the need to share it. Dressed in a soldier’s Civil War uniform and stationed along the midway at the Chesterfield County Fair yesterday, Baird showed passers-by how men of that time loaded and fired gunpowder rifles and cannons of various sizes.
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Rides, history and fun at the Chesterfield County Fair (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
The Burghfield Common woman found dying in her home after a shed fire died from a head injury inflicted by a hammer.
More here: Burghfield Common woman died from head injuries (Reading Evening Post)
Sheena Barnett For the FCT Behind every great guitar player is a great guitar pedal maker.
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Belgreen grad making his way in music (The Franklin County Times)
Editor's note: The 10th annual Asheville Citizen-Times Half-Marathon and 5K Run & Walk presented by Mission Hospital System is Sept. 12. The Citizen-Times is profiling runners as they prepare to take on the 13.1-mile challenge.
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Half Marathon profile: Being a role model to young girls (Asheville Citizen-Times)
This summer five youths from 859 Crowsnest Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets attended summer training centres in Penhold and Cold Lake, Alberta. Their training, travel, meals and accommodation were provided free.
Continue here: Air Cadets return from summer training (Crowsnest Pass Promoter)
The Fort Vance Historical Society and A.D. White Research Society will host two history-themed events in coming weeks. The A.D. White Society will host the eighth annual History Fair at 8 a.m. Sept. 26 at the Avella Community Center.
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Area historical societies announce events (Weirton Daily Times)