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It took some time (quite a bit of time, actually), but the New Haven Hillhouse High School class of 1943 will finally be having prom this Sunday.

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'Forrest Gump' is a tale of a dim-witted but good-natured man who finds himself in the middle of many of the influential events of post-World War II America.

The 1994 film was a huge hit, earning close to 700 million at the box office and winning six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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If you could travel back in time, would you snap a cell phone photo of the famous people you brushed shoulders with? In her latest series, Hungarian photographer Flora Borsi imagined what the world would be like if a time traveler could venture into the past and capture some of humankind's greatest, most iconic moments ever. But in this scenario, Borsi herself is the aforementioned time traveler.

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This Saturday's lecture in the Daly Mansion Spring Lecture Series will center on Marcus Daly's final resting place - Green Wood Cemetery in New York City.

The free speech April 13 will feature Don Erdman, a Daly Mansion volunteer and history researcher, who will show photos and talk about other famous gravesites at the New York cemetery

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The history surrounding Hamilton's Daly Mansion stretches across the country - from Hamilton to Butte to New York. And for every Saturday in April, a bit of that history will be unveiled in unique presentations in the building's Trophy Room

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Ever wonder why some years Easter is in early April, sometimes late April, and sometimes—like this year—it's in March? Why isn't it a fixed date, like most other holidays? Well, it's a bit complicated.

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The lessons of the past are soon forgotten. But not at the Daly Mansion northeast of Hamilton.

The annual Spring Lecture Series starts Saturday, March 23, with tales of the Vigilantes, Freemasons and Gold Rush Justice in the Montana Territory

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The Daly Elementary School 4th grade classes will get unique lessons in Montana and Bitterroot history, when musician Chip Jasmin visits for a week in April.

Humanities Montana awarded a $500 grant to the Hamilton School District to support Jasmin's project "Musical Bitterroot History" from April 15-19

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Just in time for tomorrow's Oscar night telecast, we've found a great supercut that offers a fun blast of film history. 

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After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.

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