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April 11, 2012 | By Michael Muskal
Massachusetts, you're out. Ohio? Sorry, another loser. In the race for cultural mecca, the winner is: Oregon. That is, Oregon is the winner as far as "The Simpsons” are concerned, according to creator Matt Groening, who told Smithsonian magazine that the real-life home of his fictional characters is the Springfield in the Northwest. It was the first time that Groening had specified the place where almost anything can happen - and seemingly has in the show's 22 years on TV. Groening acknowledged that he has always avoided naming the state.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 6, 2006
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Iraq and a soldier who died at a U.S. hospital of his injuries in Afghanistan: Phillip E. Baucus, 28, of Wolf Creek, Mont.; corporal, Marine Corps. Baucus was among four Marines killed July 29 in Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Anthony E.
NEWS
November 22, 1990 | E.J. DIONNE, WASHINGTON POST
This is a story about a family reunion in Quebec where 1,400 people showed up. What sort of family would have 1,400 people show up at a reunion? Mine. The kind of family that's not so much a family as a political machine. In 1986, some folks in Quebec, where the family hails from, organized a group called L'Association les Dionne D'Amerique Inc. I got a mailing from them a few years back and decided: At last, a special interest group I can support unreservedly. So please do not expect a fair-minded, objective account.
NEWS
January 23, 1992 | THOMAS V. DiBACCO, THE WASHINGTON POST; DiBacco is a historian at American University.
Don't bother to look for clothespin in the Oxford English Dictionary because you won't find it. Clothespins, which these days probably appear as often in arts and crafts creations as on clotheslines, owe little to the English (who would call them clothespegs ) or to any other nation, for that matter. They developed in the United States sometime during the 1840s and by mid-century were well established.