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In a word: argle-bargle
The Baltimore SunEach week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be acquainted--another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: ARGLE-BARGLE Given the amount of nonsense to which... -
Allan Powell: Kings of the mountain exposed, Part 1
When we were kids, we earned some small change by selling burlap bags of corn cobs that we got free from a huge pile of cobs at Stickles' Mill on Baltimore Street. In those days (circa 1935), many homes cooked on coal stoves using corn cobs as kindling...Tags: Biography (genre), Karl Marx, Science and Technology
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: The heroism of Hirschhorn
When I was 16, I read Henry David Thoreau's “Walden.” I read about living deliberately and sucking the marrow out of life. Such musings led me to study philosophy. I learned that a deliberate life meant following a heroic life. In the “...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Japan, Heroism, First Aid, Health
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Check It Out: Celebrating 200 years of Dickens
Earlier this month, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens was celebrated in an event held at his burial site in London's Westminster Abbey. In attendance were many writers, academics, and other enthusiasts of the man considered to be...Tags: Westminster Abbey, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Charles Dickens, Google Inc., Arts and Culture
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Karl Marx, Harper Lee sold big in 2011
![Used book-selling website AbeBooks' biggest sale in 2011 was of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," the three-volume first edition published by Otto Meissner in 1867. Ironically, someone paid $51,739 for the seminal critique of capitalism.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67151780-04100115.jpg "Used book-selling website AbeBooks' biggest sale in 2011 was of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital,\" the three-volume first edition published by Otto Meissner in 1867. Ironically, someone paid $51,739 for the seminal critique of capitalism.")
Tribune NewspapersUsed book-selling website AbeBooks' biggest sale in 2011 was of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," the three-volume first edition published by Otto Meissner in 1867. Ironically, someone paid $51,739 for the seminal critique of capitalism. The second-highest sale...Tags: Pablo Picasso, Book, Madonna, Karl Marx, Services and Shopping
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Reflections on a Christmas recital
My mother taught piano lessons. In 1930 she had her own radio show in Monongah, W. Va. Under her tutelage, I mastered “Chop Sticks,” “Heart and Soul” and just about any doo-wop melody. Years later, I was the darling of every dive...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Concerts, Joseph Conrad, Holidays
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Chasing Down The Muse: After one year, classes prove to be success
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle * I consider myself fortunate that my work is a labor of love — love of learning both for myself and for others with whom I am fortunate enough to come into...Tags: Fine Arts, Government, Politics, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Fine line
Change of Subject[Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)] never spoke before the age of three, when, hearing his younger brother cry, he said "What ails wee Jock?"...from Bertrand Russell's "An Outline of Philosophy," (1927).A vague memory of this... -
Book review: 'The Great American Stickup' by Robert Scheer
![Robert Scheer is a journalist in the gadfly tradition of Lincoln Steffens, I. F. Stone and Seymour Hersh. His latest book, "The Great American Stickup," blames the "captains of finance" for causing the 2008 "meltdown" of the global economy in the first place and then profiting from the tax dollars that were thrown at the problem — "a giant hustle that served the richest of the rich," as he puts it, "and left the rest of us holding the bag."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-10/56851669-17214833.jpg "Robert Scheer is a journalist in the gadfly tradition of Lincoln Steffens, I. F. Stone and Seymour Hersh. His latest book, "The Great American Stickup,\" blames the \"captains of finance\" for causing the 2008 \"meltdown\" of the global economy in the first place and then profiting from the tax dollars that were thrown at the problem — \"a giant hustle that served the richest of the rich,\" as he puts it, \"and left the rest of us holding the bag.\"")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesRobert Scheer is a journalist in the gadfly tradition of Lincoln Steffens, I. F. Stone and Seymour Hersh. His latest book, "The Great American Stickup," blames the "captains of finance" for causing the 2008 "meltdown" of the global economy in the first...Tags: Republican Party, Dining and Drinking, Democratic Party, Journalism, Timothy Geithner
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: An American patriot
![I am stirred by the thought of chivalry. A devotion to ideals beyond our own self-interest is man's dominant quest. I think of Cervantes' immortal hero Don Quixote and his aria, "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this." The fabled knight's passionate outcry defines chivalry as most idyllic.](http://www.lacanadaonline.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-07/55092778-22093759.jpg "I am stirred by the thought of chivalry. A devotion to ideals beyond our own self-interest is man's dominant quest. I think of Cervantes' immortal hero Don Quixote and his aria, "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.\" The fabled knight's passionate outcry defines chivalry as most idyllic.")
I am stirred by the thought of chivalry. A devotion to ideals beyond our own self-interest is man's dominant quest. I think of Cervantes' immortal hero Don Quixote and his aria, "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of...Tags: Eldridge Cleaver, Defense, Armed Forces, Stonewall Jackson, El Paso
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