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Princess-to-be Kate Middleton has Maryland family ties
Soon-to-be princess Kate Middleton has a few prominent Marylanders — and American celebrities — in her family tree.
Middleton, a commoner who marries Prince William on Friday, is a distant cousin of "The Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis...Tags: Maryland, Weddings, Winston Churchill, Sociology, World War II (1939-1945)
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"Animal Factory" author speaks
Dining@LargeSorry for the late notice, but if you want to hear from a guy who's been billed as a modern-day Upton Sinclair, you've got about an hour to get over to East Baltimore.David Kirby is author of a new book,......Tags: Schools
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A who's who of Maryland (abridged)
Special to Baltimoresun.comWhile you may be coming to Maryland to earn your fame and fortune, the majority of the Free State natives listed below took their talents elsewhere. The exceptions are marked with asterisks. Actors/actresses Bess Armstrong, John Astin, John Wilkes Booth,...Tags: Bess Armstrong, David Hasselhoff, Anne Tyler, Lefty Grove, Cab Calloway
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Seven journeys to a choice
Times Staff WriterLOS ANGELES -- Jim and Mill LaVerde followed it like a pennant race. Sam and Stephanie Larson saw it as a morality play. Eleanor Viggers was drawn to it like a train wreck. Steve and Yolanda Whitehorse just tried not to come to blows over it. All seven...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Illegal Immigrants, Multi-Sport Events, Arianna Huffington, Migration
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'The Jungle' revealed suffering
Every so often a book comes along that changes the world in some way. Here is one such book. What it is: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It was published in serial form in 1905 and as a book in 1906. How it changed the world: Sinclair's powerful,...Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Collective Contract, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Health and Safety at Work
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Don't be agast (or even aghast)! Tribune once trifled with standard spelling
For more than 40 years, the Tribune crusaded against an "unspeakable offense," a "monster cruelty": English spelling.
From Jan. 28, 1934, to Sept. 28, 1975, the newspaper adopted a system of simplified spelling, a cause dearly felt by publisher Col....Tags: Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt
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FBI tracking videotapers as terrorists?
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has recommended for many years that animal activists who carry out undercover investigations on farms could be prosecuted as domestic terrorists.
New documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act...Tags: Activism, Occupy Wall Street, Justice System, Justice and Rights, Laws
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Musician's design hits right notes [Corrected]
For University High School, money does grow on trees. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version incorrectly stated the number of votes Lisa Xie's design got. It was 445, not 445,000. -------------------- At least, it does now since a...Tags: Schools, Companies and Corporations, Facebook, Music, High Schools
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Friday @ 5: A cocktail to kick off the weekend
For most of us drinkers, Labor Day represents a three-day weekend full of barbecues and booze -- the last hurrah for summer soirees. The etiquette deadline for wearing white inspires eponymous parties, at which we sip accordingly: chilled white wine,...Tags: Labor Day
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PST, A to Z: ‘Eames’ at A+D Museum, ‘Sympathetic’ at MAK Center
Culture MonsterText is a central component of two Pacific Standard Time exhibitions, both focused on design: “Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship” at the A+D Museum, and “Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist... -
Rutten: Amazon's shameful California tax dodge
At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons' first gilded age lingered on, many Californians came to regard one powerful enterprise as the symbol of oppressive avarice and of big money's corrupt appropriation of the political process. That...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Companies and Corporations, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Metal and Mineral, E-Commerce Industry
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Education Matters: History often repeats itself
Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...Tags: History, Business Enterprises, National Government, Government, Lincoln Steffens
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