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From the Vault: Domino Sugar

From the Vault: Domino Sugar

1 Comment From the Vault, The Baltimore Sun

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The Baltimore sugar plant opened in 1922, and was owned at the time by the American Sugar Refining Co., or Amstar. In 1984, Amstar Corp. was sold for $428 million to investment banking firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Co., which sold it two years later to Merrill Lynch Capital Partners Inc. Tate & Lyle bought the company in 1988.

Then, two politically connected brothers who fled the Castro regime and later built a sugar empire in Florida agreed in 2001 to purchase the Domino Sugar company for $180 million.

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The mysteries of Antarctica

The mysteries of Antarctica

1 Comment Travel, World

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Earth’s past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents.

Clues to answering humanity’s most basic questions are locked in this continental freezer the size of the United States and half of Canada: Where did we come from? Are we alone in the universe? What’s the fate of our warming planet?

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Bolivian grandmothers – and great-grandmothers – stay fit with handball

Bolivian grandmothers – and great-grandmothers – stay fit with handball

0 Comment Entertainment, Sports, Travel, World

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Known in the Aymara language as “awichas,” or grandmothers, the women pull sports jerseys over their long-sleeved blouses and ruffled skirts, then perform warm-up exercises while singing a childhood song.

The women, some of them great-grandmothers, arrive with their tennis shoes every Wednesday at a covered court in El Alto, an impoverished city near the capital of La Paz.

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On Iwo Jima: Baltimore school principal, police union president in historic photo

On Iwo Jima: Baltimore school principal, police union president in historic photo

0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, Travel, World

When he was a teenager, Len Pojunas Jr., now in his 60’s, and his brother were talking with their mother about how they wanted to know somebody in a famous battle.

Their mother, Bee, explained that their father was — serving as a Marine on Iwo Jima.

A glance through the World Book Encyclopedia showed a half-inch photo from the battle, which he showed to his father when he was home.

“Honest to God, he put his hand on his forehead. ‘That’s my troop,'” Pojunas Jr. recalled his father saying. The elder Pojunas then started naming some names and a life of research about that photo began.

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Ringing in the Year of the Sheep

Ringing in the Year of the Sheep

0 Comment Entertainment, Travel, World

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Dragon and lion dancers performed in bustling and noisy Chinatowns in Southeast Asian capitals, where ethnic Chinese trooped to temples to burn incense sticks and offer prayers.

The Year of the Sheep, known variably as the Year of the Goat or Ram, is celebrated during the seven-day holiday, which started Wednesday. Unlike the previous Year of the Horse, which was generally considered to be an auspicious time, this year, according to some astrologists, would bring a volatile economy, more transport accidents and windy natural disasters.

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