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    May 17, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. An old diary throws him a curve

    <strong>Reporting from Orange, Va. </strong>
    Part two of three
    Reporting 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: Jerry Lewis, Google Inc., Slavery, DNA, France

    2. May 8, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 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.
    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...

    Tags: Libraries, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice

    3. Apr 6, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. 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 back.
    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...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Liver Cancer, Louis Armstrong, Microsoft Corporation, Computer Hardware

    4. Jul 10, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. A healthy dose of American history

    Paul 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.)
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Paul 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: Madison Square Garden, History, Sports, White House, Andrew Jackson

    5. Aug 16, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. 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 yellowed letters and faded land records, the presidential papers and everyday ephemera that are stored in the group's vaults.
    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: History, White House, Connecticut Historical Society, Elections, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    6. Mar 24, 2010 |Story| Daily American

  6. 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: Energy Saving, Politics, Easter, Parliament, World War II (1939-1945)

    7. Jul 14, 2012 |Story| AM News

  7. LOOKING BACK: So, who do you think you are?

    What 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 part Cherokee, so I investigated.&nbsp;
    Contributing columnist
    What 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: Entertainment, Oliver Hardy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slavery, William Walker

    8. Jul 15, 2012 |Story| Daily American

  8. 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, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice

    9. Jul 18, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. 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: Barack Obama, Henry Ford, Small Businesses, Thomas Edison

    10. Apr 8, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. For at-risk students, veteran mentors are a phone call away

    Equipped with a flip phone and 400 free minutes, each member of<b> </b>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 &#8212; or life.
    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: Teaching and Learning, Students, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Army, Gary Cooper

    11. Jul 21, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Obama and the 7 habits of highly ineffective government

    Stephen Covey, the management guru who died this week, would have had a hard time selling his books in Benjamin Franklin's America, or Abe Lincoln's. His best seller &quot;7 Habits of Highly Effective People" would have been considered a self-evident truth, one drummed into earlier Americans by schools, churches and the Puritan ethic.
    Stephen Covey, the management guru who died this week, would have had a hard time selling his books in Benjamin Franklin's America, or Abe Lincoln's. His best seller "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" would have been considered a self-evident truth,...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Elections, David Brinkley

    12. Jul 29, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Rhubarb rising

    We love the sweet-tart combination of strawberry and rhubarb warmed in a perfectly browned crust. But this summer, rhubarb spirits are the thing, as two newly released elixirs based in the fruity root vegetable land in liquor stores. They shared the same name until one asked the other to change, but they couldn't be more different.
    We love the sweet-tart combination of strawberry and rhubarb warmed in a perfectly browned crust. But this summer, rhubarb spirits are the thing, as two newly released elixirs based in the fruity root vegetable land in liquor stores. They shared the...

    Tags: Recipes, Sweden, Rhubarb

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