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The weeklong festive holiday known as the Kwanzaa takes place from December 26 to New Years Day. When…

Whether it's a hideous sweater, a book you've read before, or some weird little trinket, you've probably received at least one holiday gift that you just didn't want. You can try donating these items, but there's a good chance you'll end…

The Duchess of Cornwall said Black Beauty was her favorite book during her 'pony-mad' youth and that always makes her emotional as she stressed the importance of reading to children.Camilla revealed that her father, Major Bruce Shand, often…

An elementary school in South Tyneside has developed an innovative idea for storytelling, as it continues to spread the enthusiasm and joy of reading throughout the region.Teachers and students at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, part…

"Like a Turtle Loves His Shell" by Peggy Patterson Williams and Jaidyn Brink was released on November 2.The children's storybook is about a family reassuring an insecure boy how much they love him.Williams called Coshocton High School to…

Among the flood of titles aimed at science fiction enthusiasts, a few stand out for their original stories, compelling characters and powerful themes. One of them is me, IA, a recently published collection of short science fiction…

Tim burgess Listening party DK Dec 24 2021 Web exclusivity By Mark Redfern Tim's Twitter listening evening was one of the few!-->!-->…

Breadcrumb Links Hockey Author of the article: Bruce garrioch Release date : Dec 24 2021 • 25 minutes ago • 5 minutes to read • Join the conversation Santa Claus flies over the Canadian Tire…

Ah, the holidays. It's a gourmet period marked by decorated cookie platters and special family recipes that…

Newswise - December 23, 2021 - the AJN The Book of the Year program is an honored and prestigious competition in which the best nursing publications that have captured the attention of healthcare and nursing professionals are chosen by a…

A lifetime ago - March 11, 2010 - I wrote in this space about a curious paradox I stumbled upon ("A Pair of Paradoxes"). It originated, as far as I know, in a 1953 book…

Binge this week: "The Beatles: Get Back" More than the rise of a group, it is the story of the breakup of a group that everyone clings to. The most acrimonious will become the stuff of legends. If The Beatles are the greatest group, as…

Over the past five years, more than 6,600 women in Texas prisons have recorded audio recordings of "The Invisible String," a children's book about the invisible ties that bind us to those we cherish, regardless of distance. Each inmate's…

llamaGoose Studios announces the release of Whole Grainbowls by Michelle DeMarco, available on Amazon. LamaGoose Studios announces the release of Whole Grain Bowls by Michelle DeMarco, available on Amazon. This book builds on Michelle's…

It's been a while since we've heard from Rob Bell, the superstar pastor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose 2011 book Ask If Hell Is Really Real took him out of evangelical Christian circles. He was quite the phenomenon a decade ago and then…

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Bruges, Belgium,is a picture perfect with its ancient buildings and pretty canals. Apopular tourist destination which is busy all year round, Bruges has beenpreserved to retain its medieval qualities, and offers a storybooklandscapes and…

Edward "Chow" H. White IV RUMFORD - Edward "Chow" H. White IV, 34, passed away peacefully at The Hospice House in Auburn, Maine on December 18, 2021, from a number of lifelong medical conditions. Chow grew up in Oxford, Maine and spent…

Gloria M. Hamel RUMFORD - Gloria M. Hamel, 82, died on Monday, December 20, 2021 at Rumford Hospital. She resided in Roxbury. Born in Roxbury on February 21, 1939, she was the daughter of Louis and Emma (Noble) Touchette. Gloria married…

After years of shivering in snow-capped caves and mountain peaks, Jamie Wheal came to understand why he willingly caught azure waves or hurtled frozen powder over sheer cliffs, but could never make it to the sport room. The concept…

Jesse Grant / Getty Images for Disney We are now just over a week away from Boba Fett's bookand fans are excited for this glimpse into Star Wars' sinister criminal underworld. In addition, the series is a good substitute for…

One of the most polarizing figures in the black freedom movement, H. Rap ​​Brown rose to prominence as chairman of the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the late 1960s. Brown later converted to…

Never leak data! "New books and new data are worthy of your time as long as they contain original and reliable ideas. You will not adopt all new systems, but knowing the different variations and their…

The Mario Party Superstars Encyclopedia is packed with fun information and lore around classic Mario characters and games fans already know and love. Mario Party Superstars may not be a…

The recent publication "Stan's Condensed Encyclopedia on the Basics of the World We Live In and Our Lives in This World" by Covenant Books author Stanton O. Berg is an insightful volume that provides valuable information on the…

Over the past decade, author and surfing historian Matt Warshaw has built the world's largest digital archive of surfing history, documenting the surfing past in ways that are invaluable to generations past, present and future. Anyone…

As one of the only people of color in a former workplace, I remember feeling deeply uncomfortable when a white boss spoke to me in a singsong Indian accent or when a colleague spoke with casualness of the darkness of my skin. These people…

North Caicos-born sisters Debby-Lee Smith-Mills and Sherwood "Blossom" Smith recently published their first book. This book of local idioms, titled "Things Mummy Used to Say - An Encyclopedia of Turks and Caicos Islands' Colloquialisms", is…

Children and adults alike look forward to their favorite Christmas stories year after year. County Muskingum has taken these favorites and turned them into window decorations, paintings, and outdoor exhibits that make you want to grab a…

The ball fell at the feet of Diego Valeri near the top of the penalty area with a clear view of the goal. It was midway through the first overtime period of the 2021 MLS Cup Final. The score was tied at 1-1. A…

When a member of the Amazon Matsés tribe develops the telltale sore of leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease, the tribal shaman knows what to prescribe: heated scrapings of the outer bark of a particular vine. For countless generations, this…

DK has officially revealed the exclusive action figure that will be in the upcoming LEGO DC Character Encyclopedia: New Edition who is Val-Zod. If you are unfamiliar with the character, Val-Zod is another Kryptonian who possesses…

VERNON — Matt and John Ryan, who are twins, have played football together for 13 years.Every Rockville High…

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FROSTBURG, Md. - Storybook Holiday has a way of bringing people…

The opposition loved Rosaiah for his endearing simplicity, respected him for his vast knowledge of finance Evocative yet fascinating, eloquent yet provocative, funny but moving and imposing but trustworthy - all these human qualities…

The United Through Reading Storytelling Ball on November 6 was a festive event that brought the community…

With DC's latest version of its encyclopedia spanning the cosmos, any fan can become a DC expert before diving into the new world of Infinite Frontier. The history of DC Comics the universe…

Gary Collinson takes a look at Fanhome's Star Wars Encyclopedia… 2021 saw the emergence of a new face in the UK collectibles scene, with Fanhome showcasing a range of officially licensed action figures, busts and model kits to fans of…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The book "Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences. Edition No. 3" of Elsevier Science and Technology has been added to from ResearchAndMarkets.com offer. The third edition of Encyclopedia of Dairy Science will…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The book "Molecular Medical Microbiology. Edition No. 3" of Elsevier Science and Technology has been added to from ResearchAndMarkets.com offer. Molecular Medical Microbiology, Third Edition presents the…

As a kid, I loved colorful storybooks about Clifford the Big Red Dog.As a teenager, I had nothing against…

ZANESVILLE - The holiday season is back in Muskingum County with activities for all ages starting in December as part of Storybook Christmas.In Zanesville, downtown visitors can get in the mood for the annual Christmas Parade and Courthouse…

DUBLIN - (COMMERCIAL THREAD)--The "Encyclopedia of intelligent materials" Elsevier Science and Technology book has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com offer. Encyclopedia of Intelligent Materials, set of five volumes covers…

The Independent Walt Disney World Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Magic Kingdom by Kevin Yee and George Taylor is a comprehensive and comprehensive list of attractions, restaurants, shops and other points of interest in Walt Disney's Magic…

Former CVG and Official Nintendo Magazine scribe Chris Scullion turns to the dark side for his third comprehensive unofficial encyclopedia, taking us on not only the entire Western catalog of SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis, but the Mega CD…

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Square Enix Final fantasy The franchise is one of the best-known and popular JRPG series in video game history. Over the course of several decades, it has grown into a booming franchise, spawning several sequels, remakes, spin-offs,…

A new storybook garden in Oakland Township focuses on seven children's characters and stories, which make up the seven sections of the garden. These include Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit and Ferdinand the Bull, as well as "The Secret…

The nearly annual Celebrate the Arts luncheon offered a bit of the new and familiar on Wednesday at noon.First, there was an event. Last year's lunch did not take place due to the pandemic. Getting together and, according to Kaye…

Debby Wilson Danard holds up a white hardcover book - it has a simple pencil illustration and the title in a serifed typeface "The Sacred Scrolls of the Southern Ojibways". It sounds unpretentious, but the 1975 anthropology book contains a…

BostonConcord Baptist Church in Boston's South End was converted to condominiums in 2018. This three-bedroom duplex has an open-plan ground floor with a double-height living room with cathedral ceilings, a gas fireplace flanked by stone and…

RILEY VETTERKIND Wisconsin State Journal Ever since she was a little girl, Meredith Mast has found happiness in the traditions and traditions of ballet.As in the…

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My husband started riding when he was 51. Unlike me, a longtime English rider, Steve had no interest in perching on a fragile piece of leather and circling in a dusty ring. He embraced western riding, popular here in Montana, where!-->…

Do you have $ 1,000 lying around? If so, you may own a copy of the 1984 book. The Encyclopedia of Dunes, edited by Dr Willis E. McNelly and containing all kinds of Dune details you won't find anywhere else. This ultra-rare,…

Society Encyclopedia Britannica: a relic that shaped interest in reading and research Friday, October 15, 2021 By DOUGLAS KIEREINIMore from this author Summary The Encyclopedia Britannica is of Scottish birth.Its…

Brookline's Fiona and James Benenson will co-chair the upcoming Storybook Ball as the MassGeneral Hospital for Children celebrates the event's 22nd anniversary with a redesigned virtual party. The Benensons will virtually host guests for an…

Photo by Hudson Valley Aerial Close to Bard College, many top restaurants and a thriving arts scene, Tivoli is a great place to live in Dutchess County. Quiet, picturesque and hugging the banks of the Hudson with views of!-->…

Few basketball players can match Candace Parker's resume. She is a two-time WNBA Most Valuable Player; a Finals MVP who led the Los Angeles Sparks to a league title in 2016; a two-time Olympic gold medalist; and two-time NCAA champion…

Young animal lovers will be delighted to join National Geographic Explorers on a journey of discovery in the new and improved National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition.This stunning family reference volume includes 2,500 animal…

the Marvel Encyclopedia, new edition with an introduction written by creator Stan Lee himself, is a must-see for Marvel fans.Whether you're a longtime fan looking to expand your collection or know someone for whom this could be a perfect…

The presence of Union General William T. Sherman in Georgia during the Civil War (1861-1865) has inspired many novels. These fictional tales, some obscure and others quite significant, focused on figures taken from the Atlanta…

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, daughter and wife of the Augusta planters, is best known for her detailed journal of her life before, during and after the Civil War (1861-1865). An invaluable resource for historians of the…

Elizabeth Lichtenstein (or Lightenstone) Johnston was a staunch Loyalist who lived through the upheavals of the American Revolution (1775-1783) in Georgia. At the age of seventy-two, she wrote graphic memories of her…

Mildred Lewis Rutherford is best known for her Confederate commemorative activities and for her books on the South. She has written twenty-nine widely read books and pamphlets, including The South in history and literature…

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips was the first great historian of the South and the South slavery, and his work has attracted as much attention and stirred up as much controversy as that of any historian in the South. Phillips was…

Rebecca Latimer Felton, who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four, has lived a life that is as full as it is long. A tireless writer and activist for progressive-era reforms, particularly women's rights, she was the first woman…

Georgia's "Three Governors Controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was one of the most bizarre political spectacles in the annals of American politics. Following Talmadge's…

Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly black orphanage in Georgia and perhaps the oldest such organization in the country. She was born a slave in Georgia…

Charles C. Jones Jr. was the greatest Georgian historian of the 19th century. Also an autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones later became a prominent Lost Cause memoirist and critic…

The Georgia Historical Quarterlythe scholarly journal of the Georgia Historical Society, has been published continuously since 1917. It continues to serve the purposes set out in its inaugural issue: to collect, preserve, and…

A traveling preacher, Charles "Ches" McCartney was an important folk and religious figure in Georgia for more than four decades, and a likely influence on the works of writer Flannery O'Connor. He traveled across the United…

One of the most famous American artists of the 19th century, Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins was an African-American musician and composer. Blind from birth and born into slavery, Wiggins became famous for his piano virtuosity.…

Charlayne Hunter-Gault holds a place in Georgia's civil rights history as one of the first two African-American female students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her award-winning journalism career,…

Margaret Mitchell is the author of carried away by the wind, one of the most popular books of all time. The novel was published in 1936 and sold over a million copies in its first six months, a phenomenal feat considering it…

Author of one of the oldest and most influential slave stories, Olaudah Equiano was an enslaved African of Igbo descent who became a master sailor and traveled the world. The central concerns of his extraordinary life were work…

Ellis Merton Coulter, a University of Georgia professor and Southern historian, has helped shape the Southern public's understanding of its heritage in general and that of Georgia in particular. He taught at the flagship…

Stretching less than two miles east of Peachtree Street, Auburn Avenue was the commercial, cultural, and spiritual center of African-American life in Atlanta before the Civil Rights Movement. "Sweet Auburn" boasted a…

Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as Governor of Georgia for a brief period in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the United States Senate, where he served until defeated in…

Thomas RR Cobb was one of the foremost legal authorities in antebellum Georgia and the most outspoken advocates of slavery and secession from the Union. He fought for the Confederacy as a brigadier general and was killed at the…

Sequoyah, or Sequoia (both spellings were given by missionaries, but in Cherokee the name is closer to Sikwayi or Sogwali), also called George Gist or George Guess, was the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary. Born in a…

Millard Fuller and his wife, Linda, founded Habitat for Humanity International in 1976. Now an international organization, Habitat is a Christian ministry that seeks to provide decent housing to those who cannot afford it through…

Italian-born artist Athos Menaboni arrived in Georgia in the late 1920s and remained active until his death at the age of ninety-four. Early in his career, he focused primarily on painting murals and creating other decorative…

A number of significant historical events occurred in Georgia during the month of July. 1700-1749 1733 The founders of Congregation Mickve Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the South, arrived in Savannah. 1742 The Battle…

Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white Southerners to openly denounce racial segregation and actively work against the entrenched and often brutally imposed world of Jim Crow. As early as the 1930s, she argued that…

Brigadier General Count Casimir (or Kazimierz) Pulaski came from Poland to fight in the American Revolution (1775-1783). Frequently hailed as the founder of the American Cavalry, he served in the Continental Army from late 1777…

Henry W. Grady, the "spokesman for the New South", served as editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s. A member of Atlanta's Democratic political leadership circle, Grady used his office and influence to promote a…

A number of significant historical events occurred in Georgia during the month of June. 1750-1799 1781 Major military engagements this month include the capture of Augusta from the British on June 5 by Elijah Clarke and others…

Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African-American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. He was also an important mentor to civil rights…

British actress and writer Fanny Kemble's infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when she married Pierce Mease Butler, who in 1836 inherited her grandfather's inheritance, including hundreds of enslaved Africans…

A native of Atlanta, Walter White served as chief secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1929 to 1955. In the twenty-five years before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision Brown v.…

The Crypt of Civilization, a millennia-old time capsule, is a chamber sealed behind a stainless steel door in 1940 at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. The crypt is the "first successful attempt to bury a record of this culture…

Hugh McCall is generally considered Georgia's first historian, based on his two volumes History of Georgia. The first volume was published in 1811, followed by the second in 1816. Details of his own life story remain elusive.…

John Ross became the main chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following the establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States. He presided over the nation at the height of its development in the Southeast, the…

Savannah's notable city plan is distinguished from those of earlier colonial cities by its repeated pattern of connected neighborhoods, multiple plazas, streets, and designed expansion into city-held land (the common). It is…

The Habershams – James and his sons, James Jr., Joseph and John – played an important role in the economic and political life of colonial, revolutionary and national Georgia. Their connection to Georgian history began with…

Ralph McGill, as editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitutionwas a leading voice for racial and ethnic tolerance in the South from the 1940s to the 1960s. As an influential daily columnist, McGill broke the code of silence on…

Noted for their contributions to the intellectual life of 19th-century Georgia, the LeContes originally prospered as rice and cotton planters in Liberty County and later gained recognition for their scientific work. In 1787,…

The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia's colonial period, the Creeks outnumbered European settlers and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. It…

joseph Addison Turner was a writer, editor, publisher, attorney, and planter. He is best known for publishing The compatriota weekly newspaper produced from its Putnam County planting during Civil war (1861-65). Despite his…

The Goose Pond community in Oglethorpe County was named for a pond of at least fifty acres located near a small creek that connects to Georgia's Broad River. Tradition has it that the pond takes its name from the wild geese…

Celestine Sibley, a renowned Southern author, journalist and syndicated columnist, reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999. During her long career, she wrote more than 10,000 columns and numerous reports of…

Mildred Seydell broke the gender barrier and was one of the first women to work as a journalist in Georgia. She was a columnist and author of nationally syndicated books, a strong advocate for women's rights, and the founder of…

Founded in 1996, Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art reached an international audience and attracted some of today's most distinguished poets and fiction writers. Published three times a year by the Department of…

A versatile performer from suburban Atlanta, Travis Tritt has garnered major industry awards and sold millions of records, cementing his stature within the Peach State pantheon of notable contributors to country music. First…

Former Union College president Edward de Rosset dies at 77 By Maisie Nelson • Oct 31, 2021 • Edward Daves of Rosset, who served as the 17th president of Union College from 2003 to 2011, died Friday, October 29…

There's a new LEGO DC book coming out next year called The LEGO DC Character Encyclopedia: New Edition and it will come with an exclusive minifigure. The book won't be released until May 3 for $21.99, but you can pre-order it today on…

Per Erik Gårder, internationally renowned roundabout expert, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, edited "Transportation…

September 22, 2021The lives and work of UW-Madison alumni Laura Dronzek and Kevin Henkes were recently featured in the Wisconsin Alumni Association's On Wisconsin magazine. Dronzek and Henkes, in their home studios The article, titled…