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The mango trees thrived in South Florida and a pioneer community was born. Older than West Palm Beach, the "lost town" of Mangonia is now called Northwood Shores.
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In the late 1800s, Presbyterian ministers came up with the idea of establishing a “Princeton of the West” in the Denver area. Henry J. Mayham, a native of New York who’d moved to Colorado, realized that land he owned between Denver and Boulder might increase in value if a Presbyterian university was set up nearby, so he donated 640 acres of land to the Denver Presbytery.
Forty acres of that donation would be used for the campus of Westminster University, eighty acres for a farm to support and feed the school, and the rest divided up and sold for the predicted community that would develop around the project.
Accident in aviation history. tragic aftermath of saturday s twa/united airlines crash, which claimed 128 lives. it was a watershed event. it was one of those accidents that we as a society said we re not going to have that anymore. the collision prompts the federal aviation act of 1958, which creates the faa, whose mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. unfortunately, change doesn t happen quickly enough. the wreckage went into the church, into the street and into the surrounding buildings, but i imagine that was about the first contact with the ground, the top of that garage. the pillar of fire church. yes. isn t that ironically named? it s a dreary december morning in 1960 when twa and