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Hace 5 días · This year’s Thomas Wolfe Society Conference is focusing on Wolfe’s short stories rather than the full-length novel. Spencer acknowledges the trepidation many readers have approaching Wolfe’s best-known work. “But then recently, prompted by an invitation to make these few remarks, I reread Look Homeward, Angel. And I loved it!
Hace 5 días · So, while various American men, from respected meteorologist James Pollard Espy in 1838 to Chicago civil engineer and retired Civil War General Edward Powers in 1871, had envisioned conjuring artificial rain by burning large masses of timber or by detonating explosive charges carried by balloons (Fleming 53–63), it is at the end of the century that the practice of female aeronautics and ...
Hace 17 horas · Peaceful Separation. Posted on May 29, 2024. How best to govern a diverse population is a part of the subtext of public political debates in America, mostly because no one is permitted to debate the orthodoxy on immigration, so America gets more diverse every day. This is treated as a novelty that only the best minds in the managerial elite can ...
Hace 4 días · United States by naturalization. Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath to leave his home for business or ...
Hace 1 día · Marlow. John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington. United Kingdom. Monmouth House. (demolished in 1773) Soho Square. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch. United Kingdom.
Hace 5 días · Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.) is an American writer and political activist whose best-known novels concern the endurance of people living in often inhospitable environments and the beauty to be found even in such harsh circumstances. Kingsolver grew up in eastern Kentucky, the daughter of a physician who ...
Hace 3 días · May, 2024 – Craig, Colorado. May 26, 2024 by Dr. Greg L. Somers. 0. Upon leaving Grand Junction, we initially headed east on I-70 to CO-13 heading north. Our goal for the week was to visit Dinosaur National Monument, but I had difficulty finding a highway north that was not too difficult pulling an RV. As one person we talked to noted, CO-13 ...
