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Michael J. Ybarra dies at 45; chronicler of extreme sports
Michael J. Ybarra, a former Times reporter who had recently chronicled his extreme-sports adventures for the Wall Street Journal, was killed in a mountain-climbing fall over the weekend on the edge of Yosemite National Park. He was 45.
A veteran...Tags: Social Sciences, Arts and Culture, Authors, Larry Gordon, Mountaineering
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Remembering duty, service and 'lost human potential'
There were many moving moments during Monday's annual Memorial Day Ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, in Timonium. The program included nearly two hours of musical selections by military bands and choral groups and prayers, along with...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, International Military Interventions, Holidays
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Battle of Midway: A reversal of fortune
If you wanted to pitch a novel about World War II battle, the following story line might be considered too dramatic. Six months after the Navy suffers its most catastrophic loss in history, it defies expectations and turns to fight. A Navy captain...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Yorktown (York, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Amazon categorizes Rodney King's memoir as 'criminal biography'
Jacket CopyRodney King's addiction and recovery memoir, "The Riot Within," is a bestseller in Amazon's "Criminal Biography" subcategory alongside books about serial killers and members of the mafia.... -
First-ever Carnegie Awards in Literature go to Enright, Massie
Jacket CopyThe American Library Association announced the winners of a new set of awards going to books for adults.... -
Commerce Secretary John Bryson found unconscious after hit-and-run crashes
L.A. NOWU.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was involved in two hit-and-run accidents in the San Gabriel Valley on Satruday before being found unconscious inside his Lexus vehicle by police, authorities said. Bryson was treated at the scene by Los Angeles........ -
Commerce Secretary John Bryson accused in hit-and-run crashes
L.A. NOWAuthorities are investigating a series of traffic collisions in the San Gabriel Valley involving U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson, authorities said Saturday.... -
Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
Tags: Vegetarian Diet, Literature, Arts and Culture, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger
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Feedback: What is the best biography you have ever read?
One of the best biographies I have ever read was "Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan," by Sam Childers, aka the machine gun preacher. It painted the image of Childers fighting for orphans in Sudan, and also...Tags: Karen Carpenter, John Belushi, Music, Sudan, Cancer
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Holliday Grainger cheers Lucrezia's rise to power in 'The Borgias'
RedEyeAs Pope Alexander VI’s daughter, Lucrezia Borgia enjoyed riches, money and, it turns out, a considerable amount of power for a woman in 15th century Italy. That was one of the reasons British actress Holliday Grainger was excited about Season 2...Tags: Showtime (tv network), Joanne Whalley, Political Corruption, Rome (Italy), The Borgias (tv program)
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Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: Cary Grant, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Australia, Olivia de Havilland, Florenz Ziegfeld
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Allan Powell: Kings of the mountain exposed, Part 1
When we were kids, we earned some small change by selling burlap bags of corn cobs that we got free from a huge pile of cobs at Stickles' Mill on Baltimore Street. In those days (circa 1935), many homes cooked on coal stoves using corn cobs as kindling...Tags: Thomas Carlyle, Karl Marx, Science and Technology
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