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New Jamestown exhibit explores colonist cannibalism
Nobody knows exactly when a nameless 14-year-old English girl met her end during the deadly Starving Time at Jamestown — or when she was butchered by a desperate fellow colonist driven to unthinkable extremes by hunger. She was already forgotten...
Tags: Smithsonian Institution, Archaeology, Historic Jamestowne, James River, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Salman Rushdie bequeaths 'Midnight's Children' to film
In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and...
Tags: United Kingdom, Midnight's Children (movie), Entertainment, Literature, Movies
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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum returns to form, with light and life
AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a recent spring morning, while producers negotiated with publicists for time to shoot spots in front of Rembrandt's...
Tags: Architecture, Renovation, Artists, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Netherlands
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Wilde about California
California's unchallenged reputation for attracting and embracing eccentrics of all shapes and sizes was already well established when Oscar Wilde brought his one-man traveling circus to the Bear Flag State in March 1882. Not surprisingly, he killed in...
Tags: Punishment, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman visits Baltimore
Plunging into a novel by James Kelman is like diving head-first into a chilly lake. It's a shock to your system at first, and a bit disorienting, but the trick is to keep moving. Once your muscles get warmed up and you get your bearings, the...
Tags: Genres, Literature, Authors, Scotland, Arts and Culture
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Jiyai Shin on a roll since winning Kingsmill Championship
Jiyai Shin admits to neglecting her "second job." Not that she's lost her love of music. Singing remains a tonic, and she hopes time soon permits a return to the recording studio. But for now, golf rules. And why not? Shin has won three of the last 11...
Tags: Sports, Golf, Australian Open, Entertainment, Music
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Back Story: Defending Havre de Grace from British attack
On this morning 200 years ago, a plucky Irish immigrant, John O'Neill, matched wits with British Adm. Sir George Cockburn, a veteran sea dog in command of a fleet of 19 vessels that sailed into Havre de Grace during the War of 1812. O'Neill was born in...
Tags: Heroism, Havre de Grace, War of 1812, Republic of Ireland, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Review: Under the Italian sun, 'Love Is All You Need'
Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's excellent tragedies tend to feature the sorts of characters and conflicts that turn up in her newest movie, "Love Is All You Need." We meet a heartbroken widower, a breast-cancer survivor, an unfaithful husband, an...Tags: Brothers (movie), Entertainment, Family, Marriage, Movies
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Scottish writers lead the way in producing popular crime fiction
As proudly reported in Scottish Life magazine, a British think tank called the New Economics Foundation recently determined that the Scots are the happiest people in Britain, boasting some of the most impressive "wellbeing" scores anywhere. Exactly why...Tags: United Kingdom, Donald Trump, Literature, Fiction, Newspaper and Magazine
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WWII poster calls for calm; now it stokes frenzy, feud
ALNWICK, England — Has a piece of advice ever seemed so apt, or so frightfully ironic? Thirteen years ago, Stuart Manley stumbled upon a slightly faded red poster tucked at the bottom of a box of books he had bought at auction. Unfolding it, he...Tags: Media Industry, United Kingdom, Oprah Winfrey, Amazon.com Inc., Auction Service
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Susan Hahn Susan Hahn was editor of TriQuarterly for 14 years. She is author of a recent novel, “The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter”; nine books of poetry, including “Self/Pity&...Tags: Northwestern University, Harvard University, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities
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‘World War Z’: Brad Pitt battles zombies, not snakes, on a plane
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIt’s one of the biggest action set pieces in Paramount’s upcoming pandemic thriller, “World War Z.” A Belarus Airlines flight ......
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