Articles with keyword "books"
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Sailor of Fortune
Michael of Rhodes was not your typical fifteenth-century Venetian, and he left his manuscript as proof.
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That's Amore
Three women in novelist William Faulkner’s life affected his storytelling profoundly through their own literary and artistic abilities. Additionally, one of the three transformed his notions of race.
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Telecommunications Triumphs
Staying up all night working on his code and such for the glory of France, Napoleon still had time for other long-lasting achievements—namely, his optical telegraph.
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"Saving Fats"
Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou
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West Virginia's Ken Sullivan
Ken Sullivan stresses the role of the Civil War in the formation of his state.
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.
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Of Stevedores and Book Slingers
Mention the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and what comes to mind are workers heaving bales along a waterfront, operating straddle carriers shipside, or driving winches above break bulk c