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Climbing Mt. Suribachi: The Academic Redneck Fitness Challenge, Update 9

Dana Zimbleman, Information, News, Travel / By

Previous Weight Loss (November 28, 2016-March 5, 2018): 34.4 pounds Weight Loss (March 5-April 2, 2018): 1.4 pounds Total Weight Loss (November 28, 2016-April 2, 2018): 35.8 pounds I’m feeling triumphant today, and not necessarily because of  making slow, steady progress toward my fitness goals. As those of you who follow my columns know, for […]

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Suicide Cliffs and Selfies: Studying the Battle of Saipan

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Earlier this week, our trip historian Don Farrell discussed the U.S. invasion of Saipan, one of the Northern Marianas Islands in the Central Pacific. Spain controlled Saipan until the Spanish-American War in 1898, when the United States captured Guam to provide a coaling station in the western Pacific. The U.S. took little interest in the

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Hell at Hickam: December 7, 1941, Beyond Battleship Row

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Most anyone who thinks of December 7, 1941, will immediately recall seeing old black and white images of the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona or hearing recordings of President Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech. Fewer know much about what happened just a few miles away at Hickam Field and Wheeler Air Base as the

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Like Seattle with Palm Trees: The Academic Redneck Arrives in Hawaii

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad  When I was in seventh grade in 1977,

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