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Columbia music historian compiles Vietnam War songs
Nearly 40 years ago, a haunting photograph of a naked Vietnamese girl running in anguish after being severely burned in a napalm bomb attack on her village became an iconic image of the Vietnam War.
But most who have seen the Pulitzer Prize-winning...Tags: Johnny Cash, International Military Interventions, University of Maryland, College Park, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Bruce Springsteen
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Made in Maryland: Niermann Weeks' mission is crystal clear
Chandeliers were the first thing Joe Niermann designed. And it was five years before he sold one. Now the bejeweled iron and crystal silhouettes are his signature.
"I don't really care for the crystals, one way or the other," said Niermann, though...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Annapolis, Europe, Chanel S.A., Television
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Baltimore through an artist's eyes
Television series such as "The Wire" offered up a gritty vision of Baltimore as a fading metropolis where murder and mayhem are daily hazards of urban life. Throw in a measure of endemic family dysfunction, political corruption and a substance abuse...Tags: Arts, Artists, Walters Art Museum, Substance Abuse, Political Corruption
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Exhibit brings together 'Eureka' moments in science
Earle Havens can almost hear their voices.
Each time Havens steps inside the George Peabody Library, he senses the muted exclamations, the murmured back-and-forth of a conversation that's been going on now for more than two millennia.
In one corner,...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Science, Oncology, Colleges and Universities, Religious Texts
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Howard library club explores English
Pu Yang learned some English while growing up in China, but when he moved to Ellicott City, he discovered that he didn't know enough about the language to speak it. Then he heard about a group called the English Conversation Club that meets Wednesday...Tags: Libraries, Germany, Ellicott City, China, Howard County
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Harford Library expands LEAP science kit collection
Harford County Public Library recently unveiled the expansion of its LEAP: Learn, Explore and Play science kit collection.
According to a library news release, LEAP kits consist of high quality science equipment, materials and resources, and use play...Tags: Maryland Science Center, Libraries, Harford County, Science, Technology
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Ellicott City
Train garden The annual Holiday Festival of Trains is on display through Jan. 29 at the B&O Railroad Museum, 2711 Maryland Ave. The exhibit features custom-built model train layouts. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays (closed Jan. 1)....Tags: Libraries, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Table Tennis, Physical Fitness and Exercise, High Blood Pressure
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Columbia Digest
Art exhibit "Beginnings," featuring the works of Joan Bevelaqua, Nancy Linden, George Sakkal and John Brandon Sills, will open Jan. 15 and run until March 18 at the Meeting House Gallery. The exhibit is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. A reception to...Tags: Arts, Artists, Culture, Fox Broadcasting Company, Arthritis
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Carrie Fisher at the Towson library and in Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher is in town for a run of her one-woman show, "Wishful Drinking," at the Hippodrome, and fans will have a couple of chances to chat with her, courtesy of the Baltimore County Public Library.
Fisher was born to Hollywood stars Eddie Fisher...Tags: Libraries, Republican Party, Rufus Wainwright, Eddie Fisher, Towson
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Opening of Mencken's papers 25 years after his death
It was H. L. Mencken's last party, and the invitation had been written more than 25 years earlier. I was among the invited guests at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Cathedral Street to witness the opening of Mencken's final papers, which his will...Tags: Libraries, Sage, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), H.L. Mencken
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Enoch Pratt library's Black and White Party
If you didn't get a chance to attend the recent Black and White Party, a fund-raiser for the Enoch Pratt Free Library, you can get a taste of the event at this Baltimore Sun photo gallery. The event, whose theme was "Evening in Paris," was organized by...Tags: Libraries, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Guardians of our heritage: vulnerable and vigilant
A sad tale has been unfolding here in Baltimore. From the library of the Maryland Historical Society to the Baltimore City Jail and a federal courtroom, two arrested and accused thieves, guilty by their own admission, are being ushered through the justice...Tags: Theft, Libraries, Mount Vernon, Conservation, Conservation
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