This is the archive for July 2007
By Martha McKay
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)
Smartparts founder and CEO Stefan Guelpen
on one of the company's digital frames.
Trish Tyson/The Record/MCTHACKENSACK, N.J. — Few gadgets are as much fun as a digital picture frame.
It frees your pictures from the tyranny of storage on a PC or camera memory card. And having one on your desk makes you feel a tiny bit like you're living in Bill Gates' house.
A lot of companies have jumped into the business of digital picture frames, but it made sense to take a close look at Smartparts, a leading manufacturer that's based in New Jersey.
The company is the brainchild of Stefan Guelpen, originally from Cologne, Germany, who spent years working as a manufacturers' representative selling digital camera gear before starting his own company a little more than two years ago.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
"NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA"
For: Playstation 3
From: Team Ninja/Tecmo
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense violence, suggestive themes)
The list of recently-released games in dire need of a do-over is long enough to comprise its own 10-volume encyclopedia.
It's funny, then, that a game that oozed quality its first time out is now experiencing its third go-around in slightly more than three years. Someone's really determined to get this one right.
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By Peter Hecht
McClatchy Newspapers(MCT)
Attorney General Jerry Brown
wikipedia photoSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Attorney General Jerry Brown, who has set out on a legal crusade to force local government agencies in California to reduce greenhouse gases through better land use planning, was upstaged recently by a talking snowman.
The former governor and national political figure made a YouTube video for last Tuesday's CNN Democratic presidential debate, asking the candidates what they will do about "climate disruption and global warming."
But Brown didn't make the cut. Instead, millions of viewers for days watched repeated plays of a video — created by two Minneapolis men — depicting a forlorn snowman and his frosty sidekick.
"I've been growing concerned about global warming," the snowman says. "The single most important issue to the snowmen of this Global warming permeates public discourse
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From wikipedia:
Fatima Jinnah (July 30, 1893 — July 8, 1967) was the sister of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and an active political figure in movement for independence from the British Raj. She is commonly known in Pakistan as Khatoon-e-Pakistan (Urdu: — "Lady of Pakistan") and Madar-e-Millat ("Mother of the Nation.") She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, then a part of British India. She was admitted to the Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College in the University of Calcutta in 1919 and went on to open her dental clinic in Bombay in 1923. She was an instrumental figure in the Pakistan movement and the primary organiser of All India Muslim Women Students Federation. After the formation of Pakistan and the death of her brother, she remained a part of politics. In 1965, Miss Fatima Jinnah ran for President as a candidate of the Combined Opposition Party (COP) however she did not win. She continued to work for the welfare of the Pakistani people until she died in Karachi on July 8, 1967.
Read Fatima Jinnah's book, My Brother, free from the government of Pakistan.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Saturday, July 21:
The House and Senate have passed bills that could dramatically refigure the financing of a college education.
Out: $18 billion to $19 billion in subsidies that the federal government would have doled out to companies that provide student loans.
In: $17 billion to $18 billion in aid to students.
Differences between the House and Senate bills will have to be worked out in conference committee. The legislation passed by the House would cut the interest rate on federally backed loans that many middle-income students take to finance their educations to 3.4 percent from 6.8 percent. It would increase the maximum Pell Grants — need-based federal grants for low-income students — to $5,200 a year. The Senate doesn't have an interest rate cut but has a larger increase for Pell Grants. Under both versions, students who take public service jobs after graduation would qualify for a break on their loans.
Congress is moving in the right direction.
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From wikipedia:
Beatrix Potter at 15 years old. (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Beatrix Potter was born in Kensington, London on July 28, 1866. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Even Potter's younger brother, Bertram, was rarely at home; he was sent to boarding school, leaving Beatrix alone with her pet animals. She had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. Among her pets were two rabbits. Her first rabbit was Benjamin, whom she described as "an impudent, cheeky little thing", while her second was Peter, whom she took everywhere with her, even on trains, on a little lead. Potter would watch these animals for hours on end, sketching them. Gradually the sketches became better and better, developing her talents from an early age.
Read The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter, one of
19 of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Carolyn Jung
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
Portobello mushroom afritada is a
speciality at Bistro Luneta in San Mateo.
Thu Hoang Ly/San Jose Mercury News/MCTSAN JOSE, Calif. — On a recent weekday afternoon at Kuya's Asian Cuisine in San Bruno, Calif., an older white couple timidly wandered in.
"Is this Chinese?" the gentleman asked a group of nearby diners enjoying an assortment of stewed and fried dishes.
"It's Filipino," one replied.
"Ohhh ... it looks ... uh ... good," the gentleman stammered, before he and his companion abruptly hightailed it out of the restaurant.
More often than not, that's the reception Filipino food has received in this country.
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From wikipedia:
Charlotte Corday
by Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry, 1860: (July 27, 1768 – July 17, 1793), more fully Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, was the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
Biography
Born in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, part of today's commune of Écorches in the Orne département, Normandy, France, Corday was a member of an aristocratic but poor family. She was a descendant of the French dramatist Pierre Corneille on her mother's side.
She was educated at the Abbaye aux Dames, a convent in Caen, Normandy. She remained there until 1791 when the convent was closed. She approved of the French Revolution in its early stages, and remained an enthusiastic supporter of the Girondists.
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By Stevenson Swanson
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
NEW YORK — Just say H-2-No.
That's what an increasing number of public officials, environmental advocates and restaurateurs are urging people to do when they're tempted to reach for bottled water.
Rather than spend their dollars on costly plastic containers of water, consumers should boot the bottle and turn on their taps, according to such officials as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Salt Lake City Mayor Ross "Rocky" Anderson and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak.
Those three sponsored a resolution at last month's meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors calling for a study to examine the environmental impact that millions of empty water bottles have on municipal garbage operations.
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From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1901-1925, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972:
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (July 26, 1829-October 6, 1912) was born in Ostend, Belgium, in a middle-class Catholic family of Flemish origin. His father was a government functionary whose changing appointments took the family from Ostend to Dinant and then to Namur, where Auguste and his sister spent their childhood. Their early education was undertaken by their mother, a woman of outstanding intelligence and moral character. Admitted to the University of Louvain in 1846, Beernaert took his doctorate in law in 1851 with the highest distinction. Awarded a traveling fellowship, he spent two years at the Universities of Paris, Heidelberg, and Berlin, studying the status of legal education in France and Germany and upon his return to Belgium submitting a report of his findings - later published - to the minister of the Interior.
Read the Presentation Speech by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1909.
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By Pepper Moto, Courier Staff Writer
Some James Logan students have their prized copies of the just-released Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," after waiting outside local booksellers for the tome to go on sale last weekend.
“It's not a book series; it’s a way of life.” Caitlin of Union City commented as she stood inside Borders Books in her Slytherin costume. “You can't just live with it as a book; you get immersed in it.”
She wasn’t the only fan who felt this way, as the Union City Borders was packed with Harry-cravers from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
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From wikipedia:
Elias Canetti (Rousse,Bulgaria, 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994, Zurich) was a Bulgaria-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.
Life
Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse). His ancestors were Sephardi Jews who had been expelled from Spain in 1492. The original family name was Cañete, named after a village in Spain. Elias spent his childhood years, from 1905 to 1911, in Rustchuk until the family moved to England. In 1912 his father died suddenly, and his mother moved with their children to Vienna in the same year.
Read Elias Canetti's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981, free from Nobelprize.org.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
"RESIDENT EVIL 4: WII EDITION"
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Capcom
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense violence, language)
If the Wii's biggest problem is the glut of ports that don't play nice with the system's special capabilities, "Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition" presumably marks a new low in that aggravating trend. Capcom's horror showpiece may be the arguable best game to come out in 2005, but we're halfway to 2008 now. Never mind that you already could play "RE4" on the Wii — for less money — via backward compatibility with the Gamecube.
At the core — and with the exception of true widescreen support and content previously exclusive to the PlayStation 2 and PC editions — "RE4" indeed is the same game that appeared 30 months ago on the Gamecube. In terms of story, pacing and aesthetics, the changes range from trivial to nonexistent.
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By Daniel Brown
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
Abbott and Costello. Rowan and Martin. Laurel and Hardy.
Here's another great comedy duo: Kwan and Sapp.
The elegant Olympic skater and mouthy Raiders lineman forged an unlikely friendship while taping an episode of "The Simpsons" together in 2004.
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From wikipedia:
Sir William Ramsay (October 2, 1852 – July 23, 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon).
Ramsay was born in Glasgow, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist Sir Andrew Ramsay.
He studied at the University of Glasgow under Thomas Anderson and then went to study in Germany at the University of Tübingen with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig where his doctoral thesis was entitled "Investigations in the Toluic and Nitrotoluic Acids". He returned to Glasgow as Anderson's assistant at the Anderson College. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University College of Bristol in 1879 and married Margaret Buchanan in 1881. In the same year he became the Principal of the Bristol and somehow managed to combine that with active research both in organic chemistry and on gases.
Read Sir William Ramsay's 1904 Nobel Prize lecture, free from NobelPrize.org.
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By David Gollust
VOA News, Washington
Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon
U.S. State Department PhotoSenior diplomats of the United States and India Friday ended four days of closed-door negotiations in Washington on an unprecedented nuclear cooperation agreement. They reported "substantial progress" but no final agreement.
The U.S.-India talks, originally scheduled to last two days, stretched into a four-day negotiating marathon.
Though a final agreement was not announced, the two delegations said substantial progress was made on outstanding issues and that their work would now be submitted to the respective governments for final review.
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By Liz Ruskin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Londoners Natalie Allison, left, and Amy Durant came
dressed as owls to the alley outside Waterstone's book
store, in Piccadilly Circus, to await the release of "Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Liz Ruskin/MCTLONDON — A giddy carnival erupted in the alley beside Europe's largest bookstore Friday night, as thousands of Harry Potter fans waited for the stroke of midnight, when the seventh and final book in the Potter series was released.
At the front of the line, near the front door to the Waterstone's store at Piccadilly Circus, a few haggard fans had been waiting since Wednesday, but where the queue bent around the corner the absurdist fun began.
A purple-robed man in a pointy hat shouted into his cell phone and danced with shrieking girls waving scarves of maroon and gold, Harry Potter's house colors. A few yards away, Alon and Yuval Avrami, 17-year-old identical twins from Jerusalem, passionately defended the virtue of Snape, one of Harry's professors, to anyone who would listen. Someone blew a kazoo. Amid the cacophony, two fans made up as owls perched in silence, rereading their Potter tomes.
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From wikipedia:
Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) was the second person and the first American astronaut in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth man to walk on the moon.
Education
Born in Derry, New Hampshire, Shepard graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in 1941, received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1944, an Honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1962, an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in 1971, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Franklin Pierce College in 1972. He graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School in 1951 and the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island in 1957.
Watch Alan Shepard and Apollo 14 his crew land on the moon, one of
many video clips of the Apollo 14 mission available free from NASA.
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Prices are up at U.S. supermarkets.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Milk is $4 a gallon.
Cereal is $4 a box.
And an orange for your lunchbox can run $1.50 or more.
Food prices are rising faster than they have in 17 years, and there's no relief in sight. Economists had expected a 4 percent increase this year — we reached that in May.
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By William Mullen
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
Cover of the current issue of Science magazineCHICAGO — Deep in the Petrified Forest formation on New Mexico's Ghost Ranch, a group of paleontologists have come across the fossil remains of a surprising creature whose existence could almost certainly will rewrite the books on how dinosaurs came to be.
The story as it is being rewritten is that the first dinosaurs on Earth were relatively pint-sized animals and spent 15 million to 20 million years low in the minor leagues of in life's pecking order before they became the world's dominant animal life form. That idea runs counter to the prevailing theory that after dinosaurs first evolved, their numbers and their relative size exploded, quickly making them the dominant animal life form on Earth.
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U.S. Army Pvt. Bartholemew Simmons pulls security in a
market while on a routine patrol through the Dora area of
Baghdad. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jacob H. Smith
WASHINGTON — With lawmakers bleary-eyed and irritable from an all-night debate, Senate Democrats shelved a massive defense policy bill Wednesday after Republicans blocked their amendment to start withdrawing troops from Iraq.
The 52-47 vote in favor of ending debate and moving to a final vote on the withdrawal amendment was eight votes short of the 60-vote supermajority needed under Senate rules to force an end to the orations and 15 votes short of the two-thirds majority required to override a presidential veto.
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Mangal Pandey (c. July 19, 1827–8 April 1857), also known as Shaheed Mangal Pandey (Shaheed means martyr in Hindustani), was a sepoy (soldier) in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) of the English East India Company.
Life
Pandey was born in the village of Nagwa in district Ballia Uttar Pradesh. Families in Nagwa village claim Mangal Pandey to be their first ancestor and trace their family lineage to him. There is some dispute over his exact place of birth. One account (Misra, 2005) claims that Mangal Pandey was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family to Divakar Pandey of Surhupur village of Faizabad district’s Akbarpur Tehsil. He joined the British East India Company forces in 1849 at the age of 22, as per this account. Pandey was part of the 5th Company of the 34th BNI regiment. He is primarily known for attacking his British officers in an incident that sparked what is known to the British as the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 and to Indians as the First War of Indian Independence. Mangal Pandey was a devout Brahmin and he practiced his religion diligently.
Learn more about Mangal Pandey and the Sepoy Mutiny, free from The Hindu, the online edition of India's national newspaper.
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By Anne Chen, Editor-in-Chief
Volunteers fuel the AIDS walk.San Francisco celebrated it's 21st annual AIDS Walk on July 15th. The walk has proven to be California's largest AIDS fund raising event. People from all corners of the Bay Area, including James Logan High School, joined together to help prevent the spread of AIDS. The 25,000 participants this year succeeded in raising $4,503,716 compared to last year's $4,135,925. It did not matter whether you were gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual,or straight- everyone was welcome to keep the battle against AIDS alive.
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By Margaret Talev and Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — Cots for senators to nap on were trucked in. Anti-war veterans planned to pack the Senate gallery after dark. And the leadership of the self-styled "world's greatest deliberative body" gave senators round-the-clock assignments so that the chamber would always be manned.
"I'm going to be presiding at 4 a.m.!" said freshman Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
Democrats moved ahead Tuesday with the Senate's first official all-nighter in four years, hoping that the publicity would make Republicans look extra bad for using their procedural powers to block a vote on an amendment forcing troop withdrawals from Iraq.
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From wikipedia:Margaret Tobin Brown (July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), more widely known as Maggie Brown or Molly Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She became known after her death as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, although she was never called Molly during her life.
Early life and family
Margaret Tobin was born in Hannibal, Missouri, one of six children of Irish immigrants. At 19, she moved to Leadville, Colorado, with her sister, obtaining a job in a department store. It was here she met and married James Joseph Brown (J.J.), an enterprising, self-educated man, in 1886. Brown had always planned on marrying a rich man but she married J.J. for love. She said, "I wanted a rich man, but I loved Jim Brown. I thought about how I wanted comfort for my father and how I had determined to stay single until himself who could give to the tired old man the things I longed for him. Jim was as poor as we were, and had no better chance in life. I struggled hard with myself in those days. I loved Jim, but he was poor. Finally, I decided that I'd be better off with a poor man whom I loved than with a wealthy one whose money had attracted me. So I married Jim Brown."
Learn more about Margaret Brown, free from encyclopedia-titanica.org.
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By Heda Bayron, VOA News
The Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant
Graphic: www.tepco.co.jp —Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in northwestern Japan due to fears of mudslides and aftershocks following Monday's powerful earthquake. At least nine people were killed in the disaster.
Relief and rescue operations continued in northwestern Japan Tuesday, where thousands of people are sheltering in school buildings and community centers. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake destroyed homes and cut water, gas and power supplies.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
"THE DARKNESS"
For: Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
From: Starbreeze Studios/2K Games
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, drug reference, intense violence, sexual themes, strong language)
Arguably no game developer is experimenting with immersion quite like Starbreeze Studios, which most recently was responsible for a movie-licensed game ("The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay") that was immeasurably more interesting than the movie that inspired it.
The concepts that surfaced in "Riddick" go into overdrive with "The Darkness," which drops you into the shoes of a 21-year-old mobster who finds himself doing battle with both his crime family and a demonic possession that gives him some seriously scary powers. Fundamentally, it's a first-person shooter, and much of the action that takes place is not unlike what might take place in any other FPS. But the devil is in "The Darkness'" details, and it's the sum of these details that set the game so far apart from its peers.
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Christina Stead (17 July 1902—31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer noted for her satirical wit and psychological penetration. She was a committed Marxist although never a member of the Communist Party. She lived many years in England and the United States but returned to Australia after she was denied the Britannica-Australia prize on the grounds that she had "ceased to be an Australian".
Read an excerpt from
“A real inferno”: the life of Christina Stead by Brooke Allen, free from New Criterion Online.
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By Mitch Albom
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
Former Surgeon General Richard
Carmona U.S. Gov. photoWe can be a pretty lazy nation, but one thing that gets us riled up is our health, right?
When a baby is sick, look out. When a father or mother isn't getting good care, we scream. When we find our water is being poisoned, or something we're ingesting causes cancer, we get angry.
Don't we?
So why have we been so silent after the former surgeon general of the United States just testified that the Bush administration repeatedly muzzled him, ignored him or told him not to issue reports?
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By Sam Mellinger
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Please, put down the fork. You're embarrassing yourself.
Your Sunday breakfast is strictly amateur. What is that, one waffle? Two eggs? And you're taking your time? You're chewing?
Dude, you are a French poodle in the pit-bull world of competitive eating.
"Have you ever seen somebody eat 10 pounds of meatballs in 12 minutes?" asks Bob Shoudt. "That's more meatballs than a normal person eats in probably a year."
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Richard F. Outcault, The Yellow Kid. He meets Tige and Mary Jane and Buster Brown, Pencil, ink, and watercolor.Published in the New York American Examiner, July 7, 1907.
From the Library of Congress:
This spectacular piece by Richard Outcault features the introduction of two great comic strip characters, Mickey Dugan, also known as "The Yellow Kid," and his immensely popular successor, Buster Brown. Here we can see the adoption of what became the standard Sunday format - twelve regularly spaced panels crowded with detailed drawing and text. In this story, Buster Brown, the twelve-year-old scion of a Manhattan family in the wealthy Murray Hill neighborhood heads to the tenements of Hogan's Alley in a dream. In a nod to another great comic strip of the period, Winsor McCay's
Little Nemo in Slumberland, Outcault has Buster Brown wake up from his nightmare and resolve not to slumber. Outcault guided the engravers by coloring only the new elements in the comic strip.
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From wikipedia:
Dame Marie Tempest, DBE (15 July 1864–15 October 1942), was an English singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession". She was also, on occasions, her own manager during a career spanning 55 years.
Life and career
Tempest was born Mary Susan Etherington in London and was educated in Belgium. Later, she studied music in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as a singing pupil (a soprano) of Manuel García, the tutor of Jenny Lind. At nineteen years of age, she married to Alfred Edward Izard. That marriage subsequently ended in divorce.
Read an amusing anecdote from the long acting career of Dame Marie Tempest, free from anecdotage.com.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, June 24:
Americans, pressed for time and eager for dish, love lists.
Not surprisingly, well-known people or institutions that fare badly on well-known lists tend to be less fond of them.
So, at first blush, you might think sour grapes was on the menu this week as a gathering of college presidents blasted the influential U.S. News & World Report rankings of "America's Best Colleges."
But wait. The Annapolis Group, the association of liberal arts colleges that just pledged to help develop a better alternative to the U.S. News list, includes every one of the colleges in the magazine's Top 10 national liberal arts colleges. That list includes Swarthmore (No. 3) and Haverford (No. 9).
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By Renee Schoof and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
U.S. Army Soldiers secure the area surrounding a fire
burning within the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment's
command point area at Forward Operating Base Warhorse.
DoD photo by Senior Airman Steve Czyz, U.S. Air Force.WASHINGTON — Hours after President Bush appealed for more time for his Iraq plan to work, the House of Representatives voted 223-201 Thursday for a dramatic change of course — a troop withdrawal to start in four months and a shift in the mission by next year mainly to fight against international terrorists.
Both the House vote and a similar one planned in the Senate next week add pressure on Republicans facing widespread frustration with the war. Most Republicans say they won't vote to force Bush to withdraw troops on a timetable and that they'll wait for a mid-September report to decide whether to change course.
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From wikipedia:
The NKVD photo of Babel
made after his arrest (July 13, 1894 – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer.
Early years
Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire, Isaac Babel survived the 1905 pogrom with the help of Christian neighbors who hid his family, but his grandfather Shoyl was one of about 300 Jews murdered.
Listen to An Isaac Babel Celebration, free from National Public Radio affiliate KCRW.
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By Suzette Hackney
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
DETROIT — A horse-drawn carriage pulled a pine casket topped with black roses through the streets of Detroit on Monday.
The coffin was cheap, and the flowers were fake — a fitting send-off for something despised by so many.
This was no celebration-of-life funeral. The thousands who gathered in Hart Plaza on the city's riverfront were more than happy to rejoice in this passing, the hoped-for demise of the N-word and its slang derivative.
A gospel choir rocked out, and speaker after speaker jovially bid good riddance to the words historically associated with the racist degradation of African-Americans, but now often casually used to greet friends or get a point across in a song's lyric or stand-up comic's routine.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor
Pictured from left to right: Del, Micah, Chris, JaymillThis year marks the 10-year-anniversary of the Bay Area’s Filipino quartet, Legaci (LGC). Throughout those years, they have gained many fans and a variety of acknowledgement. Jaymill, Micah, Chris, and Del all have such powerful voices that blend in so beautifully when harmonized. Their type of music is mostly the traditional R&B, but also entangled with modern pop and alternative rock. With a new taste of music to the customary world and a showcase of what they grew up listening to, Legaci is on its way to make their own legacy.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the installation of solar energy systems at Kitayama Elementary School and James Logan High School, which will become the second and third New Haven Unified schools to “go solar.” Earlier this year, Conley-Caraballo High became the first school in Alameda County to be powered primarily by solar energy.
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By Amy Driscoll
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
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Erik Botta with his wife, Jennifer.
Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCTPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Erik Botta believes he's done right by his country.
Days after Sept. 11, as a young Army reservist, he volunteered to go to war. He was soon in Afghanistan.
The next year, he was sent out again, this time to Iraq, part of a Special Operations team.
In the next two years, he was sent to Iraq again. And again.
He thought he was done. But now, the Army wants Sgt. Botta one more time.
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By Ray McDonald, VOA News
Washington
Joanne Rowling reads at Radio City Music
Hall in New York in 2006. wikipedia photoJ.K. Rowling says she wept as she wrote
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the hugely successful Harry Potter series.
Speaking in a BBC interview aired July 6, the 41-year-old author said "I was in a hotel room on my own, I was sobbing my heart out, I downed half a bottle of champagne from the mini-bar in one and went home with mascara all over my face."
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From wikipedia:
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist.
"No one can write a sentence like White," James Thurber once said of his crisp and graceful writing style. A liberal free-thinker, White often wrote as an ironic onlooker, championing freedom of the individual. His writing ranged from satire to textbooks and children's fiction. His writers' style guide,
The Elements of Style, remains a well-regarded text; his three children's books,
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and
The Trumpet of the Swan, are regarded as classics of the field.
Read the letter that E.B. White wrote before his death about his three books for children, free from Teachervision.
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By Anne Chen, Courier Editor-in-Chief
Photos by Anne Chen
Steph Carter of Gallows checks his guitar before the set There were a five main stages this year, including the Lucky Stage, Van's #13 Stage, the Hurley Stage, the Smart Punk Stage, the Hurley.com Stage, and the Ernie Ball Stage. On the Lucky Stage was The Briggs, Pepper, Yellowcard, Tiger Army, New Found Glory, The Vandals, Circle Jerk, Pennywise, and Bad Religion. Playing on #13 was Funeral For A Friend, Circa Survive, Killswitch Engage, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Chiodos, Cute Is What We Aim For, Gallows, Paramore, and Coheed and Cambria. For a complete list of the participating bands visit
www.warpedtour.com .
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The iPhone
CHICAGO — If you're chatty, the iPhone will be costly.
But if you like to use your phone to watch videos from YouTube or as a mobile e-mail device, the highly anticipated gadget will cost roughly the same as any other smart phone.
Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc, the iPhone's exclusive wireless carrier, said Tuesday that pricing plans for the phone, which costs as much as $600, will range from $59.99 a month for 450 minutes to $99.99 for 1,350 minutes. In all plans, data usage _ surfing the Internet or sending e-mails — is free and includes 200 text messages.
The phone went on sale June 29.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
"HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX"
Reviewed for: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2, Nintendo Wii
Also available for: PC, PSP, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance
From: EA
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (fantasy violence)
The summer of bad movie-based games is far from over, but that doesn't mean it can't take a break. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" promises to be an uncommonly good summertime movie sequel, and the game of the same name — while certainly flawed — follows suit.
To EA's great restraint, "Phoenix" doesn't try to be something the movie and book are not. Harry doesn't run around Hogwarts unleashing hell and lightning bolts on Slytherin students, for instance, and the game is appropriately light on conflict outside of the story's key showdowns. Most of the action revolves around assembling Dumbledore's Army and completing various side quests that increase your abilities and advance various plotlines. You occasionally step into the shoes of other characters, but only when the story dictates it.
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Mary McLeod Bethune, photographed
by Carl Van Vechten, April 6, 1949 (July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955) was born in Mayesville, South Carolina and died in Daytona Beach, Florida. A U.S. educator born to former slaves, she made her way through college and in 1904 founded a school that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. She was president of the college from 1923–42 and 1946–47. Prominent in African-American organizations, particularly women's groups, she directed the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration (1936–44). Bethune worked for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and attempted to get him to support a proposed law against lynching. Although the Costigan-Wagner bill was not passed, they did raise more public awareness of the lynching issue. She was also a member of Roosevelt's Black Cabinet. Her house is preserved by the National Park Service as Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, and a significant sculpture of her is located in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC.
Hear Mary McLeod Bethune speak about "The Power of Education," free from the New York Public Library.
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Calls to Paris Hilton's old number go to a Los Angeles
college student. wikipedia photo
LOS ANGELES — Just days after getting a new cell phone number, college student Shira Barlow was the most popular co-ed in the country.
She had inherited Paris Hilton's old digits.
With them came all the calls from the celebutante's B-list friends who didn't rate a heads-up on her new line.
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Amy Pinto, 29, of Howell, New Jersey,
painted her pregnant belly as a globe
for Live Earth.
Tariq Zehawi/The Record/MCT
NEW YORK — A galaxy of pop stars, appearing in an atlas full of cities, performed at the environmentally friendly Live Earth concert Saturday — creating what might have been the longest, loudest, most-viewed concert in history.
The epic day and night weren't only about playing. They were also about pleading.
A steady interruption of public service ads broke up the music to nudge viewers to be less piggy about their use of the world's energy. At the same time, the sheer scale of the event meant Live Earth had to be pretty hog-like itself.
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By Ghost Mentor, Courier Staff Writer
The Ten Commandments of College
Student was searching for divine inspiration. Student walked high on the mountain of knowledge and came across God. Student asked God how to live life as a college kid should. And God said unto him, follow these Ten Commandments and you shall be all a college kid is. And Student thanked God and it was good. And Student spread the Ten Commandments of College to all.
I- Thou Shalt Nap
And God gave unto Student a great gift, the gift of napping. God said to him, You shall spend half your day napping. You shall nap in class, in your room and in your friend's room. And God said, if you don't nap, you will not be able to stay up all night drinking. And Student said, Nap I shall, and it was good.
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Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr better known as Belle Starr (February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889) was famous as an American female outlaw. Her legend developed soon after her death and she quickly became more famous for the impossibly fantastic legend than for anything she could have ever genuinely done. Depending on which parts of the legend(s) one reads and/or believes, she married no fewer than three of the Younger brothers, she had control (even carnal control) over every cutthroat brigand, horse thief, and bank robber in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Every person she had any dealings with was on the wrong side of the law, even including her father. She kept a diary. She ran criminal gangs like a 19th century Ma Barker and even began her exploits during the Civil War where she was described as being anything from a spy, to a courier of military intelligence information, to being the only female Confederate General (even though, at that time, she was 13 to 17 years old).
Read more about Belle Starr at outlawwomen.com.
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One from The Courier's Archives:
One from MCT Campus:
One from the Library of Congress
The classic Blondie comic above,
Dance Mad, first appeared in print June 13, 1934. It's by Chic Young. This copy is from the the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon in the Library of Congress.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Self-portrait, Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war. Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities.
Youth
Kollwitz was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the fifth child in her family. Her father, Karl Schmidt, was a radical Social democrat who became a mason and house builder. Her mother, Katherina Schmidt, was the daughter of Julius Rupp, a Lutheran pastor who was expelled from the official State Church and founded an independent congregation. Her education was greatly influenced by her grandfather's lessons in religion and socialism. The early death of her younger brother Benjamin also left an impression; in childhood Kollwitz was afflicted with anxiety.
View 61 of Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz' artworks, free from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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By David Moberg
(MCT)
Employees of Woolworth's striking for a 40 hour work
week in 1937. New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photo.
Library of CongressThe eight-hour day is slipping, and we need to do something about that.
A century and a half ago, workers typically toiled 12 or more hours a day, six days a week. No wonder they wanted a shorter workday. Their slogan was "eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will."
It still makes sense today.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins Surratt (May/June 1823 in Waterloo, Maryland, USA – July 7, 1865 in Washington, D.C), was a member of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and the first woman executed by the United States federal government, for her role in the conspiracy. She was executed by hanging. She was the mother of John Surratt, also alleged to be involved in the conspiracy.
Early life
Mary was born to Archibald Jenkins and Elizabeth Anne in southern Maryland. She had two brothers. Her father died when she was two years old. Mary enrolled at a private girl's boarding school, Academy for Young Ladies, in Alexandria, Virginia. She married John Harrison Surratt in 1839, when she was sixteen and he was twenty-seven. They had three children, Isaac (1841), Elizabeth Susanna Surratt (1843-1904), and John, Jr. (1844). Together they farmed tobacco and opened a general store, gristmill, and tavern.
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By Amy Culbertson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
FORT WORTH, Texas — In terms of tacos, America has come a long way since Glenn Bell opened his first Mexican-American restaurant in 1954. But we've been a long time getting there.
"The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink" (Oxford University Press, $49.95) suggests that we have Bell to thank for the widespread American corruption of the Mexican taco. Bell invented a prefabricated hard taco shell that didn't have to be cooked before serving.
Bell, who went on to found Taco Bell in 1962, overcame American distrust of ethnic fare by making tacos analogous to hamburgers: ground meat, tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, yellow cheese, with the crunchy shell standing in for the bun.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Self-portrait by Friday Kahlo, 1926 (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was the wife of Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera. She is widely known for her self-portraits often expressing her physical pain and suffering through symbolism. In the last three decades she has gained admiration in Europe and the US resulting in the 2002 movie about her life starring Salma Hayek, which sparked even further interest in the life and arts of Frida Kahlo. Her house in Coyoacán, Mexico is a museum and visited by a large number of tourists every year.
See many of Frida Kahlo's paintings, free from Olga's Gallery.
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By Mary Morningstar, VOA News
Washington
Last year, Bon Jovi became the first rock band to reach Number One on Billboard's Country Singles chart. Now, Bon Jovi continues to explore its Nashville influences on a new album.
Bon Jovi's latest album,
Lost Highway, is not a Country record, but it was inspired by Nashville's creative community. The band collaborated with some of Music City's top songwriters, including Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson. Dann Huff, a Nashville hitmaker for Faith Hill, Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban, co-produced the album.
Lead singer Jon Bon Jovi says he shares a common bond with Country music's storytellers, which made Lost Highway's sound a natural progression for his band.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, June 8:
Every time a song is played on the radio — whether it's Internet, satellite or old-fashioned terrestrial (AM/FM) radio — the broadcaster is required to pay a royalty fee for use of that music. Fair so far. How the fees are assessed, however, is not so fair.
Terrestrial radio only pays royalties to composers. Performers are not compensated, because radio stations argue that drawing listeners to their music is essentially free advertising.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depiction of Mary Walcott, seated,
at the Witch Trials.Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – after 1719) was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693.
She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639-1699), and his wife Mary Sibley (1644-1683), both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley (1657-1708), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them. Joseph B. Felt quotes in the The Annals of Salem (1849 edition) vol. 2, p. 476 [from the town records]:
March 11, 1692 – "Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advices she gave John [husband of Tituba] to make the above experiment, is restored on confession that her purpose was innocent."
See Mary Walcott's deposition in the Salem Witch Trials, free from the University of Virginia.
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By Jackson Muneza Mvunganyi, VOA News
Washington
This Isn't the America I Thought I'd Find: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School, by Rosemary Traore, Robert J. Lukens
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: University Press of America (May 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761834559
ISBN-13: 978-0761834557
Thousands of African students attend high school in the United States. Most come to gain an education that many of their peers back home can only dream of. They also want to share their experiences as Africans with their American schoolmates. But an American researcher says some of these students have been frustrated in their efforts to reach their goals, in part because of negative stereotypes about Africa in American schools and the media. Educator and writer Rosemary Traore says negative ideas held by American students about Africa often make it difficult for African students, “whether immigrants or refugees, to accomplish their goals of getting a quality education.”
Traore researched and co-wrote a book about the experiences of African students in an urban Philadelphia high school with a large number of African-American students. The book is called
This Isn't the America I Thought I'd Find: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School. She says that the title of the book "came from a student as a direct quote from a student in a Philadelphia high school" , that she shadowed along with other students.She adds that the African students " were definitely having a hard time. There was harassing, teasing and name calling….”
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By Tracy Connor
New York Daily News (MCT)
Cover of Confessions of Son of Sam
by David Abrahamsen NEW YORK — It was 30 years ago this month that a letter landed on columnist Jimmy Breslin's desk at the New York Daily News from the madman known as the .44 Caliber Killer or Son of Sam, later unmasked as serial murderer David Berkowitz.
With ominous words in block printing that Breslin likened to "cinders from the flame," the note marked a fascinating turn in a drama that would terrorize the city all summer.
The thirst for details was so enormous that when the New York Daily News ran the letter with Breslin's column that Sunday, it sold more than 2 million copies.
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By Suzanne Perez Tobias
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WICHITA, Kan. — A few summers ago, Matthew Vines had a whole lot of time and not much to do, so he created a Web site.
This summer, that site is his ticket to a grand adventure.
Matthew, the 17-year-old producer of Veritaserum.com, an internationally recognized Harry Potter fan site, is traveling the world as part of the official Harry Potter press corps.
He will be among the first in the world to see "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the much-anticipated fifth movie in the Harry Potter series.
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By Rosanne Skirble, VOA News
Washington, DC
A grassroots movement to phase out inefficient light bulbs is gaining international strength. The movement is promoting the replacement of traditional incandescent bulbs with energy-saving compact fluorescents, a switch that activists say will help cut global electricity use and reduce harmful global warming emissions.
Fifty-five million light bulbs are sold every day in the United States. Most of these are incandescent bulbs in which electricity passing through a thin metal filament inside the bulb's sealed vacuum turns it white-hot and throws off light.
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By Reid Kanaley
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, bottom, meets with students of
The Les Aspin Internship Center at Marquette University
U.S. Gov. photoInternships have become a gateway to permanent jobs, and the Web helps employers craft internships while telling prospective interns how to get the edge for the internships they want.
OFFER INTERNSHIPS
Businesses considering an internship program might start with the simple guide posted here by Indiana University. The how-to publication says internships boost a company's recruiting image, and provide a way of screening and grooming prospective employees.
Learn "How to Build an Internship program," free from Indiana University.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
André-Gustave Citroën (February 5, 1878-July 3, 1935) was a French Jewish entrepreneur of Dutch and Polish descent. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his invention of double helical gears.
André-Gustave was the 5th and last child of the Dutch Jewish diamond merchant Levie Citroen and Mazra Kleinmann (of Warsaw, Poland). He was related to the famous British philosopher A.J. Ayer. The Citroen family moved to Paris from Amsterdam in 1873. Upon arrival, the diaeresis was added to the name, changing Citroen to Citroën. His father committed suicide when André was only six years old.
Read more about André-Gustave Citroën and his cars, free from The Citroën Connection
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From wikipdia:
Amy Vanderbilt (July 22, 1908 - December 27, 1974) was a U.S. authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best selling book
Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The book, later retitled
Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, has been updated and is still in circulation today. The most recent edition (ISBN 0-385-41342-4) was edited by Nancy Tuckerman and Nancy Dunnan. Its longtime popularity has lead to it being considered a standard of etiquette writing.
Read an excerpt from The Complete Book of Etiquette, free from USA Today.
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By Stephanie Allmon
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
FORT WORTH, Texas — Forget spray-tanning (too orange) or fake-baking (too dangerous). This year, the best way to get the look of sun-kissed skin may be to slow-glow.
Gradual" self-tanning lotions promise to deliver plenty of hydration as well as a touch of sun. And almost every brand of moisturizer has one in its line now.
We tested 10 of the newest, reformulated or repackaged ones on shelves this spring. Here are the three that worked the best:
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (July 23, 1856 - August 1, 1920), was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement and is known as "Father of the Indian unrest." Tilak sparked the fire for complete independence in Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of Hindu nationalism as well.
Reverently addressed as Lokmanya (meaning "Beloved of the people" or "Revered by the world"), Tilak was a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism, mathematics and astronomy.
Learn more about Bal Gangadhar Tilak, free from indialife.com.
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The classic
Blondie comic above is from the an Exhibition in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon at The Library of Congress
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
During the warm weather months, many vacationers head for the hills on camping trips. Typically on these trips, many campers bring along portable stoves, heaters and lanterns to help make the experience a bit more comfortable.
It's important to remember that many of these items emit carbon monoxide, and can pose a safety hazard if used in a tent or other enclosed space. Each year, approximately 30 deaths and 450 injuries occur from carbon monoxide poisoning from heaters, lanterns or stoves operating inside tents, campers, and vehicles. Carbon monoxide reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen, and low blood oxygen levels can result in loss of consciousness and death.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission suggests consumers follow these guidelines to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning on a camping trip:
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