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Holocaust tapestries at AVAM help explore the nature of narrative
Sometimes the only barrier separating a pastoral paradise from hell on earth is a thin line of birch trees. Before she died in 2001 at age 74, Frederick dressmaker Esther Krinitz created 36 oversized fabric panels that provide persuasive proof that...
Tags: Arts, Fine Artists, Vietnam War (1955-1975), American Visionary Art Museum, Chevy Chase
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Cockeysville Middle student has the write stuff for social justice essay
Samuel Owens, an eighth-grader at Cockeysville Middle School, recently won fourth place in the 2012 of Fred B. Benjamin Peace Writing Contest, which called upon school children across the state to write papers on issues related to themes of peace and...Tags: Students, Awards and Prizes, Hunt Valley, Timonium, Yamim Noraim
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Adella 'Alli' Russel, travel agent
Adella "Alli" Russel, a retired Pikesville travel agent who made her way out of Nazi-controlled Germany in the 1930s, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 3 at the North Oaks retirement community. She was 96.
Born Adella Zipser in Leipzig, Germany, she...Tags: Belair Road, Trips and Vacations, Baltimore Museum of Art, England, Germany
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A Raven stands up for equality — and free speech
It's been a tough week for Maryland politicians who misspeak badly and then have to correct themselves. First, there was Gov. Martin O'Malley and his lame excuses for his "no" to the "are you better off than four years ago" question while defending...
Tags: Human Rights, Emmett C. Jr Burns, Family, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Minnesota Vikings
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Shooting raises questions on gun safety, policy
The shotgun that Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. allegedly used in last week's shooting at Perry Hall High School wasn't registered with the state. Under Maryland law, that wasn't required.
Police also say the 15-year-old Gladden should never have been able...Tags: Interior Policy, Baltimore County, Perry Hall High School, Frostburg State University, Justice System
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An Olympic tragedy
In September 1972, the world watched in disbelief as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by the Palestinian terrorist organization "Black September" at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich. The story, and Israel's decade-long retaliation, have been captured...
Tags: Massacres, Marketing, White House, Avery Brundage, International Olympic Committee
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Dr. Joseph Taler
Dr. Joseph Taler, a retired Glen Burnie family physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland by not wearing his Star of David armband, taking a Christian surname, and hiding in a village, died Sunday of heart failure at his Annapolis home. He was 89....
Tags: Sociology, Glen Burnie, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Rise of Egypt's Morsi should be of concern
The characterization by Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker ("Egypt's hopeful path," June 7) of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the upcoming Egyptian presidential runoff, as a moderate is an exercise in wishful thinking. The Arabic...Tags: Egypt, Jerusalem (Israel), Islam, Jihad
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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: Radio, Fiction, NPR, AIDS, Where the Wild Things Are (movie)
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With new book, Madeleine Albright sheds light on long-hidden family secrets
In 1997, Madeleine Albright couldn't have been more certain that she knew everything important about herself and was in possession of every relevant fact about her life.
And then, at age 59, just days after being confirmed as U.S. secretary of state,...Tags: Human Rights, Religious Festivals, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Family, Christianity
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Madeleine Albright sheds light on long-hidden family secrets
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be at the Enoch Pratt library's main branch on Thursday to discuss her new memoir, "Prague Winter," which delves into a family background that had been shielded from her for decades. As The Baltimore Sun'...
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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: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Literature, Colleges and Universities, Fiction, Radio
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