New portions of President Trump's budget blueprint obtained by Foreign Policy have revealed what exactly could get the ax if Trump's plan to slash funding for foreign aid were to get the stamp of approval from Congress. Apparently, Trump is eyeing merging USAID — an agency that focuses on issues like "disease prevention and food security" — with the larger State Department. 
 
 The change is pegged as a part of the administration's effort to put "America first" and "pursue greater efficiencies through reorganization and consolidation," but Foreign Policy noted the move could prove "polarizing." Andrew Natsios, the former USAID administrator under former President George W. Bush, warned folding USAID into the State Department "will end the technical expertise of USAID" and "be an unmitigated disaster for the longer term." 
 
 "What you're basically doing is eviscerating the most important tool of American influence in the developing world, which is our development program," Natsios said. 
 
 USAID isn't the only program at risk of elimination. The budget plan also proposes slashing global health funding in 41 countries. The Bureau for Food Security could lose as much as 68 percent of its funding, and the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs could say goodbye to nearly its entire budget. 
 
 The results could prove disastrous, experts warn. Some caution the cuts could curb U.S. influence abroad, put Americans "at risk in the event of a major epidemic," and even "pose concrete risks to U.S. security interests," Foreign Policy reported. "I've seen firsthand how U.S. development money saves millions of lives," said Tom Kenyon, CEO of the global health nonprofit Project Hope. "There's just no question people would die from this." 
 
 Read more on the specifics of Trump's plans at Foreign Policy. Becca Stanek ||||| Crawls performed by Internet Archive on behalf of the National Library of New Zealand. This data is currently not publicly accessible. ||||| 'Joe the Quilter's' home, in Warden, near Hexham, was demolished in 1872 
 
 The cottage of a Northumberland quilter who was murdered nearly 200 years ago is set to be recreated at a North East museum. 
 
 Elderly widower Joseph Hedley was killed in January 1826 in his isolated cottage, in an unsolved crime that hit the national headlines. 
 
 “Joe the Quilter’s” home, in Warden, near Hexham, was demolished in 1872 but investigations by Beamish Museum in County Durham have identified the location and local people are being given the chance to take part in an excavation of the site. 
 
 Beamish plans to recreate the cottage as part of a £17million development. 
 
 The museum is inviting local people, community groups and schools to get involved in a variety of ways, such as archaeology, exploring collections and Georgian life, and shaping plans for Joe’s cottage. 
 
 On Wednesday, July 15, Beamish will be at Newbrough Town Hall, at 7pm, where people can find out more about Joe the Quilter and how they can help to tell his story. 
 
 Joe’s cottage is part of the Remaking Beamish project, which include plans to expand the museum’s Georgian area, as well as building a 1950s Town. 
 
 Geraldine Straker, Remaking Beamish project officer, said: “We’re inviting everyone to come along and find out more about Joe the Quilter and his fascinating yet tragic story. 
 
 “We want the local community to be part of this project to recreate Joe’s cottage at Beamish, so we’ll be letting people know how they can get involved, from taking part in excavating his cottage, to helping plan its recreation at Beamish.” 
 
 Chintz basket quilt, c1815, Haydon Bridge, very likely made by Joe the Quilter of Warden 
 
 Joe was a talented quilter, whose fine work was sent as far afield as America and Ireland. 
 
 He was known as a friendly individual who offered shelter to travellers and passers-by in his cottage. 
 
 He was murdered on January 3, 1826, but despite the crime making national headlines and a substantial reward being offered, his killer was never found. 
 
 Even though the cottage was demolished, sketches made in the wake of Joe’s death give an insight into how it looked. 
 
 The Remaking Beamish design team used records from old maps and descriptions of the crime to identify the approximate location of Joe’s house. 
 
 Once they had discovered the rough site they spotted architectural material in the field wall. 
 
 An initial investigation which stripped away the topsoil revealed a spread of mortar, showing that they had identified the exact site to be excavated with community assistance. 
 
 The Remaking Beamish project has received initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a £10.75million grant. 
 
 The plans include a Georgian coaching inn where visitors can stay overnight, craftsmen’s cottages including Joe’s, and a windmill in the 1820s area. 
 
 The 1950s Town will include houses, shops, cafe, cinema, and recreation area. Aged miners’ homes will be a centre for people living with dementia and their families and carers. An upland farm and trolley bus system are also part of the plans. ||||| Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as there is a good chance we will share the data, and sharing data with pointers to random other collections, is a complex problem. 2. For the first time, did all the different wikis. The original runs were just against the enwiki. This one, the seed list was built from all 865 collections. ||||| Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email 
 
 A community archaeological dig has located and excavated a Northumberland cottage at the centre of a murder mystery which gripped early 19th Century society. 
 
 Joe the Quilter - elderly widower Joseph Hedley - was killed in his cottage on the outskirts of Warden, near Hexham, in January 1826. 
 
 The murder was never solved, and was widely reported at the time with plans and drawings of the cottage being published. 
 
 The documentation led archaeologists to what they believed was the site of the cottage, which had been demolished in 1872 and, with the help of local volunteers, the remains of the building have been uncovered. 
 
 The dig was led by a team from Beamish Museum in County Durham, which has an example of Joe’s quilting work. 
 
 The dig revealed what was left of the cottage’s walls, fireplace, flagstones from the floor, pottery, and a silver groat coin given as Maundy money to the poor. 
 
 Evidence suggests that Joe, who was widely known for his skill in making quilts, was on poor relief. 
 
 Now the information gathered from the dig, together with 10 tonnes of material removed from the site, will allow the re-creation of the cottage at Beamish. 
 
 The plan is to locate the cottage in the Georgian area of the Beamish landscape, as an example of a humble working man’s habitation in contrast to the existing Pockerley manor house which would have been occupied by a gentleman farmer. 
 
 The cottage will be part of the Remaking Beamish scheme, which has received initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. 
 
 A decision on a bid for £10.75m for the project is expected from the HLF this summer. As well as the Georgian venture, the scheme includes creating a 1950s town at Beamish. 
 
 The cottage project is being led by archaeologist and Remaking Beamish project officer John Castling. 
 
 He said: “Joe was well known for his talents at making quilts, some of which went abroad but we were astounded at how he must have made them in such a small cramped place as the cottage.” 
 
 A crucial piece of evidence found in the dig was a metal plate bearing the name of “Revd R Clarke, Walwick” which was attached to a piece of leather and was probably a saddle mount belonging to the clergyman. 
 
 A historical account mentions how Joe would have been unlikely to survive a period of deep snow in 1823 had not “a Hexham clergyman, the Revd R Clarke, gone through drifts to his assistance after other efforts to reach him had failed.” 
 
 John said: “As archaeologists it’s extremely rare to be working on a site inhabited by a named individual about whom we know so much. 
 
 “It’s even more unusual that the individual isn’t a royal or a wealthy landowner. It gives us a poignant and tangible link to the day to day life of an ordinary working person in the early 19th Century. 
 
 Smaller finds from the dig included 18th Century hand made bricks, a brown glass bottle, a clay pipe, animal bone buttons, a horseshoe and a lead weight and bone pick, which would have been used by quilters and weavers. 
 
 John said: “I have never found anything relating so strongly to an individual. It is really rare, especially because they are not particularly famous people. 
 
 “We have numbered all the stone and bricks and will endeavour to put them back as they were in the rebuild at Beamish. 
 
 “Visitors will not only be able to stand in a replica of Joe’s cottage, but they can stand on the flagstones Joe would have stood on.” 
 
 Meanwhile, volunteers at Beamish are helping to trace the pattern of one of the last quilts made by Joe. 
 
 Around two thirds of the fragile white cotton quilt survives and the aim is to create a replica which visitors will be able to touch. 
 
 The quilt was ordered from Joe in 1820 by the family who owned nearby Humshaugh Mill and was donated to Beamish in the 1970s. 
 
 Emma Sawyer, Beamish collections team leader, said: “A white quilt would have been used only on very special occasions and were often given as wedding gifts.”
– When renowned quilt maker Joe Hadley, who lived in a small cottage on the outskirts of Warden in the UK in 1826, was found brutally stabbed to death one cold January morning, the mystery captured a nation. The crime unsolved to this day, his story was retold in the Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend 1887 (as recounted by the blog PieceNPeace), which notes that his cottage was finally taken down in 1872, "so that all landmarks of the mournful tragedy have vanished, leaving nothing to recall the circumstance but the silent page of the local historian." Well, not exactly nothing. The Evening Chronicle in July reported that old maps, sketches, and reports of the crime enabled the Beamish Museum in County Durham to locate the approximate location of the home. Now a team of community archaeologists has managed to unearth actual remnants of Hadley's home, reports the Evening Chronicle as spotted by the Week. "As archaeologists it's extremely rare to be working on a site inhabited by a named individual about whom we know so much," project officer John Castling said. "It's even more unusual that the individual isn't a royal or a wealthy landowner. It gives us a poignant and tangible link to the day-to-day life of an ordinary working person in the early 19th century." So far the team has found floor pieces, pottery, remnants of the cottage's fireplace, and a "silver groat coin given as Maundy money to the poor." The museum intends to recreate the cottage; "visitors will not only be able to stand in a replica of Joe’s cottage, but they can stand on the flagstones Joe would have stood on," says Castling. (Over in Ireland, these bones might help archaeologists settle a controversy.)