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Catonsville High students cite reaction time, not lack of answers, in It's Academic loss
The three students on Catonsville High School It's Academic team found themselves in a familiar position heading into the fifth and final round of the Super Bowl on May 12 in Washington. Senior Chris Blair and juniors Adam Antoszewski and Abel Deneke...
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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: Gertrude Stein, Museums, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Poetry, Edgar Allan Poe
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New history tea debuts at Ellicott City's Tea on the Tiber
If you’re a history buff but don’t fancy walking up and down Ellicott City’s hills, take note of the new literary (and stationary) tour at Tea on the Tiber.
Now you can have a seat and a sweet in the charming teahouse while listening to...Tags: Davy Crockett, H.L. Mencken, Ellicott City
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Dog days of summer end with pooch pool party in Ellicott City
Attention all canines! Here's something to wag your tail about — Howard County Recreation and Parks's annual Pooch Pool Party at the Roger Carter Recreation Center, in Ellicott City, is set for Sept. 10. You can choose one of two sessions: 10 to 11:...Tags: Ice Cream, Facebook, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Patapsco
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Personal histories
During the late summer of 1918, Americans were gripped by news from the European front as World War I neared its end. They didn't dream that a larger, more deadly battle would soon be fought on U.S. soil.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed about 500,...Tags: Armed Forces, Bars and Clubs, Catonsville, Govans, Health and Medical Professionals
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Book review: 'The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens'
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley Oxford University Press: 458 pp., $34.95 This is the bicentennial year of Charles Dickens' birth. We need no reminder of his eminence as novelist, but there are celebrations of his other...
Tags: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Genres, Book, Hans Christian Andersen
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2 shot in apparent assault-rifle attack in Cypress Park
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Reggie Wayne talks Pagano, future with Colts
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Check It Out: Celebrating 200 years of Dickens
Earlier this month, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens was celebrated in an event held at his burial site in London's Westminster Abbey. In attendance were many writers, academics, and other enthusiasts of the man considered to be...Tags: Anglicanism, Robert Douglas, Thomas Carlyle, Charles, Prince of Wales, Libraries
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Suburban theater for the week of Oct. 14-20
"The Woman in Black": Fox Valley Repertory marks the ghostly season with Stephen Mallatratt's sturdy chiller (which is being turned into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe). An actor is hired by attorney Arthur Kipps to help him exorcise the memory of an...Tags: Oak Brook, Cults and Sects, Batavia, Daniel Radcliffe
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Check It Out: Tales get haunting at the Newport library
The unsuspecting public may not realize that the library is home to many restless spirits. Ghostly apparitions and foul aberrations are held at bay within the binding of many well-rumored tomes of lore. Resting on the shelf beside many normal, everyday...Tags: Charles Dickens, Folklore and Mythology, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Rudyard Kipling, Libraries
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Last bites
We know what Ichabod Crane's last meal was, the last things he ate before, you know, his head was taken, ripped from his body by a ghost on a demon steed. Presumably; the body was never found. Before this, Washington Irving bestows a bounty at the feet of...Tags: Apples, Soups, Blackbird, Pumpkin, Rick Bayless
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