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PASTOR PATRINELL WRIGHT was just a 20-year-old country girl from Carthage, Texas, who didn’t know what she was getting into when she migrated to Seattle in 1964. She grew up one of seven children in the Walnut Grove community, to be exact, a nearby farming enclave designated for blacks. That’s how it was in Southern towns back then. If you were black, you knew where you belonged, and it sure wasn’t around white people, unless you happened to be working for them. Seattle had its own form of segregation, with blacks clustered mainly in the city’s Central District because of...

Magnitude 6.2 - AISEN, CHILE 2007 April 21 17:53:45 UTC Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.2 Date-Time Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 17:53:45 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 1:53:45 PM = local time at epicenter Location 45.285°S, 72.606°W Depth 27 km (16.8 miles) Region AISEN, CHILE Distances 55 km (35 miles) NW of Coihaique, Chile 280 km (175 miles) W of Sarmiento, Argentina 285 km (175 miles) SSW of Esquel, Argentina 1320 km (820 miles) S of SANTIAGO, Chile Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 12.1 km (7.5 miles); depth +/- 21.9 km (13.6 miles) Parameters Nst=212, Nph=212,...

Click to see larger. I can't grab images from this site, but there a lots of pictures here of the Stromboli effusive eruption (rather than the normal pattern of summit explosions): Stromboli's new lava flow in Feb./March 2007

Undersea expedition finds 'promising' data GALVESTON, Texas, March 11 (UPI) -- A submarine expedition to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico has returned with "promising" clues regarding an ancient undersea shoreline there. Anthropologist David Robinson told the Houston Chronicle that the expedition at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary yielded some significant data, yet was hesitant to say the area was 20,000 years old. "We found an area that looks like a promising place to do further research," he said of the 6-mile-long studied area. The study also marked the first use of some new vital undersea technology...

8/4/2006 - ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AFPN) -- The first joint operation involving the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard security forces set out to patrol the shores of Guam July 26. "This is a joint operation with Coast Guard, Air Force and naval assets all working together as a coordinated team to enhance force protection and overall protection of the island of Guam," said Chief Warrant Officer William Norton of Naval Security Forces. The joint patrol got underway in a 36-foot Navy patrol Sea Ark and navigated 32 miles to the northern tip of the island and back....

Tourists run for their lives as the first of six tsunamis starts to roll towards Hat Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand. One woman runs towards the waves. Photo: AFP The woman continues to run as the wave advances.Photo: AFP With the waves engulfing boats, the woman makes contact with her group. It is not known if they survived.Photo: AFP

Towns along Maine's southern coast are used to the mighty ocean washing animal bones and body parts onto their shores. But the 10-pound stomach, discovered Sunday in the water off Colony Beach in Kennebunkport, was a surprise. "Everybody has their own theory about how it got there, but basically, it was a pile of slop that washed in the same weekend as a hurricane off the coast," said Kennebunk Detective Troy Thibodeau. In the summer, police receive calls about bones on the beach discovered by tourists and other beachgoers. In the fall, it's bones found in the woods by hunters....