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Ray Bradbury dead at 91
Ray Bradbury, the science fiction genius, has died at age 91. He wrote classics such as “The Martian Chronicles” and “Fahrenheit 451,” as well as dozens of fantastic short stories. My personal favorite was “Something Wicked...
Tags: Ray Bradbury, Science, O. Henry, Science Fiction (genre), Waukegan
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Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest
Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls "Archimedes' brain in a box."
Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, the lost writings of Archimedes of Syracuse, a famed Greek...Tags: File Sharing, Technology, Archimedes, Mathematics, Walters Art Museum
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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: Sociology, Fort McHenry, Freedom of the Press, Baltimore School for the Arts, Mount Vernon
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More with Amandeep Sandhu
As promised, here's the continuation of Rosalia Scalia's thoughtful Q&A with Indian novelist Amandeep Sandhu. He touches on inspirations, the challenge of writing in another language, and the role that emotion plays in great writing.
RS: You said that in...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Tuberculosis, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lorraine Hansberry, Russia
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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: Romance (genre), Science, Literature, Science Fiction (genre), Crime (genre)
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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: NPR, Roland Park, Academy Awards, Kathleen Turner, Anne Tyler
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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: NPR, Literature, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Radio
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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: NASA, Science, Alliant Techsystems Inc., Air Transportation Industry, Tom Hanks
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Banned in Bel Air
When a book flies off the shelves by the millions within a month of publication and zooms to the top of the New York Times best-seller list, it's safe to assume that whatever its literary merit (or lack thereof), it probably is not a good candidate for...
Tags: Literature, Censorship, Vladimir Nabokov, D.H. Lawrence, Libraries
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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: Technology, Science, Forests, Natural Resources, Bodies of Water
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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: Brendan Gleeson, John Cusack, Literature, Tuberculosis, Alice Eve
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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: Regional Authority, Bolton Hill, World War II (1939-1945), Anne Arundel County, Whitehall
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