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The Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Marina District of San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. (J.K. NAKATA/USGS)
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the quake triggered between $6 billion and $10 billion in property damage.
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Funeral director Donita Greene views a decedent ahead of a visitation at Greene Funeral Home in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. This image has been partially blurred to protect the identity of the deceased. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
For centuries, funeral homes have been passed down from father to son. That trend has met its demise.
John Klapperich, a beekeeper who with his wife Elsa runs The Bee Store in Lake Ridge, Va., runs a finger along honeycomb at his Woodbridge, Va., home, Friday, March 2, 2018. (LIINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
“There’s a lot of things that bees do that are just kind of miraculous,” said John Klapperich, co-owner of The Bee Store in Lake Ridge, Virginia.
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Raymond de Haan, assistant chief flight instructor at Aviation Adventures in Leesburg, Va., taxis a 2005 Cessna Skyhawk 172SP G1000 at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO), Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. De Haan is an Amsterdam native whose call sign is "Dutchman." (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Raymond de Haan, assistant chief flight instructor at Aviation Adventures in Leesburg, Virginia, is an Amsterdam native whose call sign is "Dutchman."
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Paranormal investigator Lori Miars, co-founder of Northern Virginia Spirits and Paranormal Investigators, reaches out to the dead at Broad Run Cemetery in Ashburn, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. According to a plaque beside the graveyard, 35 family members and friends of John LeFevre, whose family once owned and farmed the land, were buried there between 1750 and 1911. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
“Is that you, Mary?” Lori Miars probed, stooping in front of the crooked, weathered tombstone.
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Television still reigns supreme among news media — can digital one day come out on top?
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