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Repast
… a billboard at the corner where blues legend Robert Johnson died, reportedly from poison, in one of Greenwood’s juke … is a far more dubious affair.) A Mississippi Blues Commission marker indicates Baptist Town is “known for its … But serving as a waiter in Jim Crow Mississippi also required daily humiliations for black waitstaff meant …
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By A Dam Site
… from the mountain. It held an adult body of someone who had died a natural death. With him was the usual accompanying … Corporation (CTGPC), Owner of the Three Gorges Project—Website www.ctgpr.com ” as their multicolored, slick-paper, … generating capacity would be 18.4 million kilowatts. Its 26 generators would have an annual electrical output of 84 …
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A Berlin Epiphany
… was in Berlin a few months back for a concert featuring two compositions by Ernst Toch, my grandfather: a Cello Concerto … and I was taking advantage of a break in the rehearsals at the celebrated Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonic to … the pyre Close-pressed by the mob. Before the flames had died The taverns were full again, Baskets of olives and …
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Three Vignettes From Berlin
… enjoyed it when spring finally came. She didn’t come as a newborn, she hobbled like a warty old woman on a … the balcony planted a cypress (which soon after this would die due to the drought) and in a pot in the kitchen basil … asks a grandfather where the right side is. The grandfather points to a window and the buildings of the river port …
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Filming the End of the World in Metamora, Indiana
… he was a teacher he knew a couple students were going to die just by looking them in the eye. “And two weeks later …” … Paul backed out of the room. In my head, I pictured Paul coming back in a black robe. I snapped pictures as if the … freelancing, I wait tables when cash is tight. I also build websites, create videos, design magazines and layouts—any …
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Panes of Glass
… features, ages, and interests, as if he feared there might come a time in his life when he would forget that he had … the Civil War nurse who traveled among battlefield hospitals, and became one of the finest war correspondents who … of visiting war hospitals every day to tend the young soldiers as they died. “I have never before had my feelings so …
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