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This Date in History - December 14
20 hours ago ago from Favorite PASTimes
Today let’s focus a little closer to home, a little closer in time – Oklahoma, 1945. A little girl named Wilma is born in November in Mankiller Flats, near Tahlequah. Even after World War II the United States practiced relocation of certain populations. Wilma is born to the Cherokee Nation. The Bureau of Indian Affairs continued to move Cherokee people west – this time Wilma and her family were moved to California. When Wilma was a young ...
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23 hours ago ago from Journal of the 1001 Nights
The Abu Dhabi campus of New York University is currently hosting a conference on the 1001 Nights with several well known Middle Eastern writers and a number of scholars and papers on the topic. I pasted an article below from The National, an Abu Dhabi based newspaper - to view the entirety click link - http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091214/ART/712139988/1007 . And here is the conference brochure: Arabian Nights ...
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16 hours ago ago from Red Room Library
I have spent the last few weeks in the worlds of some great review copies: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen, and The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. All three officially enter the book world in late Jan/ early Feb, but I took an early look. I suspect all of these will be huge this year, but the first two are bound to be very, very popular. The Immortal ...
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10 hours ago ago from California Literary Review: Books, Art, Movies, Performing Arts
Every now and then, a writer comes along that makes you sit up and scent the talent. C.E. Morgan is one of those. Her debut novel, All the Living , is a meditation on love and living, set in the hardscrabble soil of a tobacco farm. It's also a damn good read. — Elinor Teele A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book skillfully combines her own fictional families with the historical cast of the Fabian Society and their free thinking, free-loving ...
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9 hours ago ago from The Red Eye
This week is the week that the PSN Digital Comics store goes live. A whole library of comics in your pocket where ever you go? The Future is truly upon us and you can wait up for Santa with free to download chapters of our red-eyed and dark-hearted tales. Our graphic novels will be published in chapters on the PSN with the first of each being offered free of charge as a taster. Three titles will be on the virtual shelves from launch, with ...
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Obama, Wall Street bank chiefs butt heads
7 hours ago ago from CNN Money
President Obama talks to Wall Street bankers. Quick Vote How would you describe the Obama administration's policy toward major banks? Too easy Too tough Appropriate A run-down of six of the banks invited to discuss financial reform and lending with President Obama. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama pressed Wall Street bankers at ...
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