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Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Nazareth, Teachers
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Former Manchester Mayor Gets 57 Months In Prison
The Hartford CourantA former Manchester mayor who was convicted of fleecing an elderly investor in Maine was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 57 months in prison. A jury in Portland, Maine, had convicted Peter DiRosa, 66, of wire fraud after a three-day trial in...Tags: Personal Service, Lowell Weicker, Republican Party, John B. Larson, Elections
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READER SUBMITTED: Quinnipiac University's Central European Institute Hosts Group Of MBA Students From Hungarian
HamdenThe Central European Institute at Quinnipiac University recently hosted a group of executive MBA students from the Hungarian Corvinus School of Management as part of an ongoing partnership. The students visited Quinnipiac's campuses as well as Birinyi...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, North Haven (New Haven, New York), Science and Technology, Mashantucket
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Janos Starker dies at 88; renowned cellist won a Grammy in 1997
Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, died Sunday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 88 and had been in declining health. Since 1958, Starker had been a professor at the Indiana...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Budapest (Hungary), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University
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Janos Starker, world-famous cellist, dies at 88
Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, has died. He was 88. Starker, who died Sunday in Bloomington, Ind., had been in terminal care for the last few weeks, according to reports from wire...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Indiana University
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Allentown church rolls out Catholic Pizza on Fridays
An anonymous tipster clued me in to a downtown Allentown curiosity — a Hungarian church making Catholic pizza. Catholic pizza? What's Catholic pizza? Regular pizza shaped like a cross? Or, because of the Hungarian twist, could it be strudel filled...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Religion and Belief, Lent, Allentown, Pizzas
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Appellate court says case against Hungary over looted artwork can proceed
The heirs of the Budapest-based Jewish banker Baron Mor Lipot Herzog have cleared a major legal hurdle in their decades-long quest to force Hungary to return dozens of artworks from Herzog's collection that were looted during World War II. In 2010,...
Tags: Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, Banking, Arts
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Allan B. Calhamer dies at 81; inventor of Diplomacy game
The origins of the board game Diplomacy can be traced to an old geography book that Allan B. Calhamer discovered while rummaging around with a friend in the attic of his boyhood home in suburban Chicago. Calhamer was fascinated by the exotic countries...
Tags: Harvard University, Monopoly (game), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Foreign Service
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Review: 'In Partial Disgrace' by Charles Newman
TriQuarterly still serves as his calling card. Seven years after his death and nearly four decades after he stepped down as editor, Charles Newman will always be best remembered as the dashing pipe-smoker who took Northwestern University's sleepy literary...
Tags: John Ashbery, World War II (1939-1945), Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching and Learning
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‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome’ star on secret Cylon agenda
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesActress Lili Bordán was living and working in Budapest, Hungary, when she got her first taste of “Battlestar Galactica,” taking ...... -
Joe Layton: Accountant runs for the first time for La Cañada City Council
Joe Layton is a new face to the local political scene, a fact he is using to stand out from his seasoned challengers. The 24-year-old accountant is a graduate of Loyola High School and USC. He has lived with his family in the city for nine years. He is...
Tags: Social Media, Google Inc., Law Enforcement, Media Industry
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Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye
Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Budapest (Hungary), Danube River, Stroke, Arts
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