Decorative arts in Georgia; historic sites, historic contexts; proceedings.
9780915977666 Decorative arts in Georgia; historic sites, historic contexts; proceedings. Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts (3d: 2006: Georgia Museum of Art) Ed. by Ashley Callahan. Georgia Museum of Art 2008 157 pages $25.00 ...

Seattle's 'Economic Stimulus' for Travelers: 2-for-1 Travel Coupons.
SEATTLE, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Grab Seattle's own "economic stimulus" package for travelers: the 2009 Seattle TourSaver -- an easy-to-use, pocket-sized travel discount book. Everything is 2-for-1, including tours, activities, accommodations and attractions. The Seattle TourSaver contains more than 100 offers in Seattle, Victoria B.C. and the San Juan...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Like, it works like magic And I am so, like, totally bummed! Are you tired of appearing to be of merely average intelligence? If so, here's a sure cure: Whether or not your intent is to note similarity or to...

Indigenous kids to open tourism program in Manila.
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- About a hundred out-of-school youth and grade school children, garbed in colorful Muslim and indigenous attires, from southwest Mindanao (Region 12), are scheduled to open this year's WOW Philippines program of the Department of Tourism (DoT) in Intramuros - a premier destination in Manila and one...

Thirteen San Francisco Bay Area Historic Sites to Receive American Express Partners in Preservation Grants.
Bay Area Residents Demonstrate Support of Historic Preservation With Hundreds of Thousands of Visitors to Website and Thousands Visiting Historic Sites SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced last night at an award celebration in San Francisco that...

Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812, 2nd.
Gilbert Collins. Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812, 2nd ed. Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2006. 389. $ 24.99 paper. As the bicentennial of the War of 1812 approaches, the conflict to which both American and Canadian history books tend to give only glancing...

Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features, and Historic Sites, 2d ed.
0786422483 Placenames of the world; origins and meanings of the names for 6,600 countries, cities, territories, natural features, and historic sites, 2d ed. Room, Adrian. McFarland & Co. 2006 75 pages $45.00 Hardcover ...

National Park Foundation, National Trust for Historic Preservation and History(TM) Ask America to Give a Lincoln For Lincoln(TM).
NPF Celebrates the Launch of the National Initiative to Support National Parks and Historic Sites Important to President Lincoln's Legacy HODGENVILLE, Ky., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Thanksgiving, and the first President to declare it a national holiday, the National Park Foundation (NPF) and the...

Civil War Sites in the Eastern Theater.
Civil War Sites in the Eastern Theater Insider's Guide Globe Pequot Press PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437 9780762741823, $15.95, www.insidersguide.com All throughout Appalachia and its neighboring regions are historic sites dedicated to the bloodiest era in American history....

Under the vandals' hammer: the wilful destruction of historic monuments does not belong to a barbaric, bygone era. In Saudi Arabia, historic sites are being deliberately razed by religious fundamentalists.
The Vandals were far from unique in their attitude to architectural monuments. Vandalism is a perennial and ubiquitous phenomenon, although possibly cherished by particular cultures and encouraged in particular eras. The 1960s, for instance, was everywhere a difficult decade for historic buildings, when, for example, with a nasty symmetry,...