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Korean DMZ
San Antonio-Express News

Using the southern end of the rectangular cornflower-blue building as a shield in event of attack, a Republic of Korea solider trains one steady eye on North Korea. The other eye — presumably, as his gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses obscure all eye movement — stares straight at the wall only inches from the tip of his nose...

History by the Book
Texas Parks & Wildlife

Everything Virginia Grona needs for her job is listed in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog. The pages are crammed with intricate drawings of bicycles, furniture, clothing, appliances, food, jewelry, toys and odd, forgotten things, such as do-it-yourself home-building kits. The catalog is Grona’s most practical reference book for reenacting Texas history. “If it’s in there, I can have it,” she says...