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SpaceX pushes back the final frontier
If all goes as planned, sometime this morning a spacecraft will blast off from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ride a fiery plume of contrails upward through the pre-dawn darkness to begin a two-week journey to the International Space Station...
Tags: Alliant Techsystems Inc., Cape Canaveral, Science, Neil Armstrong, Transportation
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Maurice Sendak lit up dark corners of childhood
Not everything in childhood is bowls of mush and little old ladies whispering "Hush," and Maurice Sendak understood that.
Our children understand that, too. Instinctively. That's what makes his books, like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Beatrix Potter, NPR, Radio, Where the Wild Things Are (movie)
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Maurice Sendak appreciation: Author left mark on Baltimore readers
Somewhere the wild things are roaring their terrible roars and gnashing their terrible teeth and rolling their terrible eyes and showing their terrible claws.
They're mourning their creator, children's book author Maurice Sendak, who stepped into his...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Literature, Colleges and Universities, NPR, Where the Wild Things Are (movie)
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Ellicott City farmers market now open in new location at Miller Branch Library
If you have a yearning for farm fresh fruits, vegetables and products, you're in luck. This week marks the opening of all the Howard County farmers markets located at several library branches, Oakland Mills Village Center and Howard County General...Tags: Farms, Science, Students, Technology, Natural Resources
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Historic home tour celebrates diamond anniversary
The Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage will celebrate its 75th anniversary starting April 28 with tours of some of the state's most lustrous historic gems.
Included in the anniversary tour are Whitehall, the home of 18th-century Gov. Horatio Sharpe, in...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Regional Authority, St. Mary's County, Bolton Hill, Culture
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As Poe, John Cusack takes flights of fancy in 'The Raven'
John Cusack didn't come to Baltimore when preparing to play Edgar Allan Poe in "The Raven."
In fact, he says he's never been here.
But when asked whether this city, Boston, Philadelphia, New York or Richmond has dibs on the author's reputation, Cusack,...Tags: Spike Jonze, James McTeigue, The Raven (movie), Celebrities, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Key School celebrates writing at Annapolis Book Festival
The 10th annual Annapolis Book Festival at the Key School promises volumes.
Faculty and parent volunteers are expecting more than 2,000 visitors on the 15-acre campus Saturday, April 21, for a free, family-friendly celebration of the written word. The...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Science, Annapolis, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment Events
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Newfound Poe manuscript to be displayed in Richmond
A handwritten draft of one of Edgar Allan Poe's earliest poems and a letter to author Washington Irving are among a handful of items that will be part of an exhibit opening April 26 at a Richmond, Va., museum devoted to the writer. "This is the kind of...
Tags: Museums, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Gertrude Stein, Washington Irving
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Student drama brings War of 1812 home
Baltimore's two-year commemoration of the War of 1812 began dramatically Saturday at the site of the British bombardment of Fort McHenry. Students from the Baltimore School for the Arts chose the fort for their open-air staging of "Fighting for Freedom,"...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Concerts, Mount Vernon, Students, Fells Point
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McDaniel College offers new minor in genre fiction
Coming unstuck in time, Pamela Regis was investigating the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. When the clocks struck 13, she dreamt she went to ... to Manderley? — no, McDaniel. Strange as it might seem, Regis' dream of jumbled-up...
Tags: Science, Romance (genre), Genres, Colleges and Universities, Students
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Baltimore novelist Anne Tyler grants rare interview to NPR
With her 20th novel, "The Beginner's Goodbye," about to be released, Baltimore novelist Anne Tyler is already hard at work on her 21st — a "sprawling family saga that goes on and on and on" that she'll be writing backward, beginning with the ending....Tags: Roland Park, Anne Tyler, Geena Davis, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Academy Awards
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'Game of Thrones' returns on Entertainment Weekly's cover
The nerd-epic (and I use that term with the deepest feeling of endearment) "Game of Thrones" is returning next month, and no one is more excited than our friends at Entertainment Weekly (and me!). The magazine has dedicated not one, but four covers to the...Tags: Game of Thrones (tv program), Concerts, HBO (tv network), Drama (genre), Sean Bean
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