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News Source: Tribune-Star
| 10 days ago
Seven plaques awaiting placement on North Ninth Street bear familiar names to history. But it might surprise the schoolchildren of 2009 to know that these people all once lived in Terre Haute. The hardwood floors of Clabber Girl’s street-level
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News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Those haunted, sensitive eyes that gazed at the viewer with method modernity and timeless emotion -- pleading and gentle, but with the potential for reckless selfishness. He wasn't the sweet bad boy; he was the conflicted, tortured bad boy who wasn't
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News Source: Tribune-Star
| 2 months ago
Max Ehrmann walked around Terre Haute for months with a masterpiece in the pocket of his dapper jacket. His smiling face, impeccable attire and gold-knobbed walking stick were familiar images to folks in his hometown. He’d tip his derby hat to
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News Source: News Press
| 3 months ago
Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 27, 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, at Titusville, Pa. On this date: In 1858, the second debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 3 months ago
A ll remembrance of things past is fiction and this fiction has been cut ruthlessly and people cut away,” Ernest Hemingway observes in A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Scribner, 240 pages, $32.99). However, this new, ruthlessly cut version
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News Source: Tribune-Star
| 3 months ago
The Swope Art Museum resumes its Book Club, presented as part of the First Friday evenings, in September. Each book is selected to connect with a work of art or exhibition at the Museum, and participants discuss both and the interplay between art,
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News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| 4 months ago
Fifty years ago, on July 21, 1959, Grove Press won permission to publish D.H...Searle, the pharmaceutical company, sought government approval for Enovid, the birth control pill. These two events, both welcome, were, however, pebbles that presaged the
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News Source: The Independent
| 5 months ago
No matter your opinion on the country, there's no doubting its incredible influence. You can study JFK, Marilyn Monroe, the Blues, cowboys and Indians, Hollywood, even Monica Lewinsky, and still claim to be doing something serious...Sussex enables