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Two centuries later, group seeks to bring home sailors killed off the shores of Tripoli
For the American sailors off Tripoli — five of them from Maryland — it was a suicide mission: Sail the small ship heavy with explosives in among the enemy fleet, set the blast to go off in 15 minutes, jump into lifeboats and get as far away as...Tags: NATO, Annapolis, Religious Conflicts, Charles Stewart, Libyan Civil War (2011)
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Schmuck: With Ripken, Gwynn, town has true legends
It is the pleasant nature of this quaint little upstate village that makes it so easy to overlook the disconnect between truth and legend that allowed it to become the hometown of baseball history. If baseball wasn't invented here, it should have been....Tags: Ty Cobb, Baseball, Lou Gehrig, National League, History
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Tapping into new terrain
Sun Television CriticThe Wire returns to HBO tonight for its second season with a new locale and a groundbreaking exploration of life in working-class America. The critically acclaimed series is still set in Baltimore, but rather than the drug world of inner-city high-rise...Tags: John Savage, Dominic West, Idris Elba, Sociology, The Godfather (movie)
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Best Historical Novel Duos
Blogging with Bill WhiteI'm still swamped, so my list today is somewhat truncated. I figured I'd let you guys do the work. My question is: Who are the best duos in historical fiction? I read a lot of the stuff, so I'll offer...... -
Awful Sandler flick provokes four-star effort from indignant critics
Change of SubjectLet's take a moment to acknowledge actor Adam Sandler's significant contribution to American humor. Not that his early work on “Saturday Night Live” or his numerous films have been particularly amusing, but that his movies have inspired some... -
Swashbuckling good films from '30s, '40s: Kenneth Turan's DVD pick
24 Frames"The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Corsican Brothers": Who doesn't love a good swashbuckler, complete with flashing swords, romantic couples and all manner of derring-do? Hen's Tooth Video, which specializes in the hard to... -
Historian's next stop: Paris
In one of his lesser known — but still exquisite — books, first published in 1992, David McCullough writes about painter Frederic Remington, an artist who captured the last glimmers of the twilight of the American West of the 19th century, a...
Tags: Roast Beef, Frederic Remington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller, History
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Culture Clash publishes 'Oh, Wild West!' trilogy
Culture MonsterCulture Clash's "Oh, Wild West!" publishes its trilogy of California plays, "Chavez Ravine," "Zorro in Hell!" and "Water & Power," in one volume.... -
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Book Review: 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Greater Journey Americans in Paris David McCullough Simon & Schuster: 560 pp., $37.50 For more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. He garnered...Tags: Richard Morris, Gertrude Stein, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Book, Mary Cassatt
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Hail to hypocrisy
"In the old days we sent Christianity to the savage redskin." - The Herald-Star (Steubenville, Ohio) Nov. 26, 1921 "... and the savage redskin was thirsting for their blood ..." - United States Magazine, June, 1855 "On rushed the savages, flushed with...Tags: Native Americans, Judaism, Google Inc., Abraham Cooper, The New York Times
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Book review: 'Satori' by Don Winslow
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSet during the Korean War and the onset of the Cold War, Don Winslow's "Satori," an entertaining, authorized prequel to the bestselling 1979 thriller "Shibumi" by Rodney William Whitaker (who wrote under the pen name Trevanian), is choked with every...Tags: Ian Fleming, Television, Book, Korean War (1950-1953), Espionage and Intelligence
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