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South Dakota History
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11 Picture-Perfect Main Streets In South Dakota
8+ hour, 54+ min ago (1204+ words) WorldAtlas The old main streets in South Dakota are still standing. Miners who struck gold put up the brick storefronts that still line downtown Deadwood. Builders in Hot Springs worked in local pink sandstone block after block. The people of…...
Interstate 90 Was Re-Routed Because Of 200-Foot-Wide Sinkhole With 20,000 Bison Bones
10+ hour, 9+ min ago (1390+ words) When highway workers ran into a sinkhole with 20,000 bison bones in it, they had to completely re-route Interstate 90 in 1969. What became known as the Vore Buffalo Jump is a rare archaeological site where people can see artifacts in their original…...
We Are All Trying Here
10+ hour, 58+ min ago (39+ words) Life doesn’t run on a simple road. It’s more like driving a car with no map and there is no signs telling us where to turn. We just drive. Every decision its our own …...
Sorry, Caleb Hearon Is Not Your Clown in ‘Trash Mountain’ Grief Dramedy
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (451+ words) Comedy helped Caleb Hearon process his own father's unexpected death. So when the comic and actor co-wrote Trash Mountain with Ruby Caster, Hearon had to consider how much to lean into comedy as tears roll down his cheeks while starring…...
Acon Digital’s Acoustica 8 audio editor is the company’s “most ambitious release to date”
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (426+ words) The longstanding editing, mastering and restoration suite gets a major update loaded with AI-powered tools There’s no shortage of plugin brands touting machine learning tech right now, but Norwegian outfit Acon Digital has proved itself to be one of the…...
SPIRIT AND GOODYEAR LAUNCH THE FIRST-EVER INFLATABLE BLIMP COSTUME INTO THE HALLOWEEN STRATOSPHERE
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (253+ words) America's leading Halloween retailer drops an exclusive collab inspired by the world's most iconic aircraft. EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit Halloween and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company are joining forces to bring one of the most recognizable sights in…...
Behind the heads of Mount Rushmore, workers blasted a 70-foot tunnel for a grand Hall of Records that was never finished — in 1998 the park sealed a titanium vault of porcelain tablets into its floor, addressed to whoever finds the mountain after America is gone
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (201+ words) A sculptor's obsession with permanence created a time capsule beneath the mountain, betting that some future civilization will know how to find it. Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit Gutzon Borglum’s problem with Mount Rushmore was never the carving. It was…...
'It's up... and it's good!"
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (297+ words) Footballs can last a lot longer than you might think. So can football memories. That phrase is from the Northwestern fight song, “Go! U-Northwestern,” written in 1912 by then -university-marching-band member Theo C. Van Etten. Van Etten’s story of the song,…...
A fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survived
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (813+ words) Paleontology can be quite physical. In 2016, David DeMar was doing field work in the rocky badlands of Montana in what's known as the Hell Creek Formation. "We all get down on our hands and knees," he recalls. "And I start…...
SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Gutzon Borglum creates mold of Verendrye marker
2+ day, 35+ min ago (127+ words) This week in South Dakota history: Sept. 4-10 An expedition led by brothers Francois and Louis Joseph Verendrye placed a lead plate near present-day Fort Pierre in 1743, claiming for France much of the northern portion of what would become the Louisiana…...