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‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old
Historians estimate a quarter of settlers of the US west were Black, moving cattle on horseback, settling towns and keeping the peaceWhen Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men.But the real cowboys Callies knew were Black. His great-grandfather Lavel Callies was an enslaved cowboy who worked with horses professionally after emancipation. “We’re cowboys for three generations back,” says Callies, 71, who...
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Some 200 Dutch beaches and marinas awarded Blue Flag for clean coasts
Some 200 locations in the Netherlands were given a Blue Flag, an international environmental label for clean beaches and clean marinas. The flags were given to 143 harbors, 50 beaches, and seven inland beaches on Thursday. The flags were awarded in IJsselstein, where Utrecht King's Commissioner Hans Oosters handed them out.The initiative was implemented in the Netherlands in the late 1980s, and is meant to structurally involve governments, business owners, and outdoors enthusiasts in the goals...
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Vaping increases asthma risk by more than 200 percent, major analysis finds
Vaping increases the risk of developing asthma by more than 200 percent, a major new analysis out of Texas has found.