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An old diary throws him a curve
Part two of threeReporting from Orange, Va. On the 19th page of the diary, I saw it. "Spence Mozingo came to . . . get boards for covering the Tob[acco] house." I clasped the back of my head in disbelief. Francis Taylor, a close cousin of James Madison, had kept a...Tags: Central Africa, Africa, Human Body, Ku Klux Klan, Google Inc.
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New leaf
To understand why the hiring of Brian Bannon as Chicago's public library commissioner caused a more-than-ordinary stir, let us quote a learned cultural authority. That authority is not Socrates. It is not Shakespeare. It is not Goethe. Nor is it...
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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
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Federal prosecutors consider new charges against alleged document thieves
Federal prosecutors said in court Friday that they're contemplating additional charges against two New York men accused in multistate thefts of historic documents uncovered this month when police said the pair targeted a Maryland museum. The revelation...Tags: Corporate Crime, Physical Conditions, Heart Problems, Maryland, Politics
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Alleged document thieves indicted on federal charges
The two New Yorkers charged with stealing historic documents from Maryland were indicted federally Thursday in a far broader scheme in which prosecutors say they stole many more valuable manuscripts from museums in both states. A National Archives...Tags: Homes, Maryland, Gerald Ford, The Washington Post, Elections
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A healthy dose of American history
Special to the Los Angeles TimesPaul Revere was captured on April 18, 1775, before he could warn the residents of Concord, Mass., that the British were coming. (He did make it to Lexington, Mass.) No Revolutionary War battle was ever fought at Valley Forge, Pa., even though Gen. George...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Paul Revere, Constitutional Issues, John Lennon, Wrigley Field
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Archivists scramble after men accused of stealing historic documents
On an invitingly bright summer day, the reading room at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania starts filling up nonetheless as soon as the doors open: professors, Ph.D. candidates and amateur genealogists alike stream in to spend hours perusing the...Tags: Maryland, Hobbies, Elections, Human Interest, Prosecution
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The history of daylight savings time
Did you ever stop to think about daylight-saving time and wonder how it got started? Well, it all came about in 1784 with Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris. Franklin wrote about it in his essay “An Economical...Tags: London (England), Energy Saving, Parliament, World War II (1939-1945), Politics
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LOOKING BACK: So, who do you think you are?
Contributing columnistWhat with TV shows devoted to celebrity genealogy and several websites offering families a way to build their family trees, many retirees decide to devote time to finding their roots. My mother was raised in Casey County, and she always said we were...Tags: Journalism, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slavery, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief
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A good decision
U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn ruled against Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter's plan to take distribution of free food to homeless people out of the parks to the front of City Hall, and ultimately, indoors. The judge said on Thursday that he saw no...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Obama never took Business 101
According to President Barack Obama, entrepreneurs and small business owners cannot take credit for their inventions or business success because their accomplishments were only made possible by the government's investments in infrastructure. Is this a...Tags: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Barack Obama, Small Businesses
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For at-risk students, veteran mentors are a phone call away
Equipped with a flip phone and 400 free minutes, each member of a group of truant students at Carver Vocational Technical High School knows that at any moment a call could come that changes his or her day — or life.
The Baltimore students are...Tags: U.S. Army, Students, Gary Cooper, Iraq War (2003-2011), Teaching and Learning
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