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- Author-Physicist Has Passion for Storytelling (Newswise)
Peter Freund packed his book, A Passion for Discovery, with stories about important 20th-century physicists and mathematicians. The story of Emmy Noether is one that Freund, Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago, liked to share in class.
- Books Exposed - Inside Higher Ed
Books ExposedInside Higher Ed, DC - 4 hours agoAn early review from Publishers Weekly praises Jones — an associate professor of pan-African studies at the University of Loisville — for providing “a level ...
- Rare book of Bard's plays found (Winnipeg Free Press)
LONDON -- It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it authenticated.
- Daily Planner: May 15 - Chico Enterprise-Record
GLENN COUNTY FAIR: 5 p.m. 221 East Yolo St., Orland. Through Sunday. Family Day, $17 admission for mom, dad and kids. Roundhouse Ronnie, Heritage Trail, petting zoo, horse exhibits, antique tractors, Wes Valley Bow Hunters and archery demonstrations ...
- Irving’s new Lively Pointe Youth Center offers programs for teens - Pegasus News
Irving’s new Lively Pointe Youth Center offers programs for teensPegasus News, TX - 5 minutes agoSuch programs include creative writing and poetry, jewelry, beads, T-shirt design, geocaching, scrapbooking, Guitar Hero, intramural basketball leagues, ...
- True grit: Sloan's city vision gets its due - Chicago Sun-Times
When the artist John Sloan moved to New York from Philadelphia in 1904, writers were making waves depicting the sometimes gritty lives of working-class people, but visual artists generally were not. Even decades later, Sloan and some like-minded ...
- U2 List: Top Ten One-Line Lyrics - ATU2
[Ed. note: This is the first in a “U2 List” series currently being revisited by the @U2 staff. The first series, which focused primarily on Top Tens, ran from August through October of 2002.] You give it all but I want more –“With or Without ...
- The Why of Switching from a Local to an International Point of View - Listen & Be Heard
The Why of Switching from a Local to an International Point of ViewListen & Be Heard, CA - 13 hours agoBy that time we were not only publishing the same content on the Web, we had opened Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe in downtown Vallejo. ...
- Cancer’s toll: Two friends, too young, too soon - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg News and AdvanceCancer’s toll: Two friends, too young, too soonLynchburg News and Advance, VA - 3 hours agoAs a writer, he published a textbook on the Middle Ages and won prizes for fiction and poetry. As an educator, he became one of the most popular teachers at ...
- The Sazerac: The cocktail of choice, for some, in New Orleans - International Herald Tribune
I've been leafing through a bunch of cocktail manuals recently. Aside from the vicarious pleasure, I've been trying to figure out the logic of the Louisiana legislature, which, apparently having finished its work with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup ...
- Dead funny tale - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldDead funny taleSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoA passionate reader, she loves Mrs Beeton's Book Of Household Management as much as Jane Austen's novels and Andrew Marvell's poetry. ...
- 'This side of paradise' - Pasadena Weekly
'This side of paradise'Pasadena Weekly, CA - 4 hours agoAfrican Americans were once not allowed on many local beaches. Of course, with beaches there’s cheesecake and, with the legacy of Muscle Beach, ...
- Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It? (New York Times)
The prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene.
- BEFRINGED AND BEWILDERED? (Orlando Weekly)
Dwarfs with flashing tools? Check. Red dildo in the hand of a randy senior citizen? Check. Devil's weed, racial jokes told in blackface, the politics of pee and the mysteries of the clit? Check, all four.
- Namibia: From a Rag And Bone Boy to Top Playwright (AllAfrica.com)
When Petrus Haakskeen was not trudging through one of Namibia's poorest villages selling bones and empty bottles well before his 10th birthday to supplement his grandmother's meagre income, he read whatever printed material he could lay his hands on.
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