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Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Legend of Bill Barilko

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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011 Bill Barilko disappeared that summer. He was on a fishing trip. The last goal he ever scored won the Leafs the c...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Don Johnson and the Age of Stubble

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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011  Johnson in Miami Vice days It’s fascinating to study fads and fashions of different eras. We can look back ...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Madame Tussauds : The woman behind the wax museums

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MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011 Marie Tussauds lived an extraordinary life. The founder of the famous London wax museum died 161 years ago.  Born An...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

WARNING CANADA! Don't give Stephen Harper and the Conservatives a majority

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011 Don’t do it, Canada! I implore you! Don’t give Stephen Harper the majority government he so hungrily craves....
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Walter Riddell: The Canadian at the League of Nations who tried to stop Mussolini

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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011 In the early 1920s, Canada was a young country with a population of less than 9 million. It was casting off t...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Robert Peary: The North Pole at last! - But was he the first to get there? And who was Matthew Henson, the black American who accompanied him?

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011 The Pole at last!!! The prize of 3 centuries, my dream & ambition for 28 years. Mine at last. - Journal of ...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Take me out to the ball game . . . It's a new baseball season!

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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011 (Baseball) breaks your heart. It was designed to break your heart. It begins in the spring, when everything else ...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Robert Frost and the road he took: His meeting with Khrushchev in 1962

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SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2011 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I  took...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

In Praise of Libraries and Librarians : Who was the real Marian the Librarian?

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011 I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian writer From S...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Witty campaign slogans: Are they a lost art?

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A campaign slogan is like a soufflé. A good one rises to perfection. A bad one falls like a stone off a ledge. - American political anal...