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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: Henry Kissinger, Science, Monopoly (game), Scrabble (game), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Authors, Psychology, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Sun-Times, Sigmund Freud
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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, Law Enforcement, Google Inc., 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: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Stroke, Arts and Culture, Parkinson's Disease, Le Corbusier
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U.S. court considers claim on art stolen by Nazis
WASHINGTON -- A three-judge federal appellate court heard brief oral arguments Wednesday in what art experts say could be the last great Holocaust-era art restitution case, one with a California connection, but issued no ruling. The unusual case was...
Tags: National Government, Adolf Eichmann, Arts, Crime, Law and Justice, Nazi Party
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Study finds link between high fructose corn syrup, Type 2 diabetes
Researchers from USC and the University of Oxford say they have found an association between countries that have more high fructose corn syrup in their food supply and those that have higher rates of diabetes. Countries with higher use of HFCS had an...Tags: Malaysia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Education, Drugs and Medicines, Diabetes
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Wiesel speaks to sanctity of learning, power of memory
Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking...
Tags: Authors, Nobel Prize Awards, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Religion and Belief, Literature
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Hundreds protest pardon of man who killed Armenian military officer
L.A. NOWRoughly 400 people protested Thursday outside the consulates of Hungary and Azerbaijan, decrying the release and pardon of an Azerbaijani soldier convicted of killing an Armenian military officer with an ax.... -
Azerbaijan defends freeing convicted killer as Armenians protest
World NowRamil Safarov had been sentenced to spend the rest of his days behind bars after killing an Armenian officer with an ax in Budapest, Hungary. But President Ilham Aliyev pardoned the convicted killer last week after Hungary agreed to return him to... -
Hungary demands return of $8 million for Holocaust survivors
World NowHungary is demanding that a United States organization return roughly $8 million in payments for Holocaust survivors, claiming it has failed to properly account for the money. The American organization, in turn, says it provided reams of information and... -
Pentagon warns Navy SEAL author on Bin Laden book
World NowThe Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information and threatened him with legal action......
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