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The U.S. Mint Discontinued the Penny Last Year; Coin Collectors Are Buying Up the Last Rolls of the ‘Lincoln Cent’

The U.S. one-cent coin was first introduced in 1793 and became the longest-running denomination in American coinage history

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Country music legend Dolly Parton dies

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Nelson House in Yorktown, Virginia

The Nelson House looks remarkably composed for a building that survived the Siege of Yorktown. Standing along Yorktown's Main Street, the Georgian house was built around 1730 by “Scotch Tom” Nelson, a…

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