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BOOKS: Drugs rain down on his parade; Baudelaire in Chains - a portrait of the artist as a drug addict, by Frank Hilton, Peter Owen pounds 22.50. Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(Features)
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
Peter Ackroyd has already contributed a fine review of Claude Pichois's book on the life of Charles Baudelaire, the French 19th century poete maudit, where the crumbling architecture of Baudelaire's perverse life is vividly defined.
Ackroyd describes the poet as 'a young man of inconstant ambitions and conflicting impulses, as indolent as he was profligate, and it is no surprise that he should quickly become the sport of syphilis, laudanum, drunkenness and indigence.'
It has been suggested that Baudelaire at 25 had plumbed a ...
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Historians walk Braddock's Road, 250 years later
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...through stands of maple and oak. But Braddock's Road is being walked again...400 men, led by British Gen. Edward Braddock, who spent two months toiling...expedition ended at what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, seven miles...
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Victorian Charm Meets the March of Progress; Braddock Heights Gives Residents a Long View
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...has metropolitan spread reached Braddock Heights, with a lot more commuter...of Maryland Avenue, one says "Braddock," the other "Heights." The town is named for British Gen. Edward Braddock, who traveled through during the...
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General Braddock defeated: July 9thh, 1755.(MONTHS PAST)(French and Indian War, 1754-1763)(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today
; Major-General Edward Braddock arrived in Virginia in February 1755...city of Pittsburgh stands today. Braddock was about sixty, a short, stout...career in the British regular army. Braddock soon discovered that Washington knew...
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Staying Put in Braddock Heights
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Fandos said. After families move into Braddock Heights, they tend not to move out, preferring...block if we tried to do it now," he said. Braddock Heights was named for Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock, who came to Alexandria from England in...
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Officials in North Braddock, Pa., Plan Museum to Mark British Defeat in 1755.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...Tribune Business News Jul. 17--Braddock's Field Historical Society has purchased three acres in North Braddock where it plans to build an 8...devoted to British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's disastrous defeat at the Battle...
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Preserving One District's History; Dozens of Volunteers Help Collect Oral and Written Stories From Braddock
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...who had heard about "old time" Braddock at countless community meetings...American history teacher at Lake Braddock Elementary for 28 years, put together...She chose the one belonging to Edward Braddock, the British general who died...
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Braddock's Road beckons historians 250 years later
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...through stands of maple and oak. But Braddock's Road is being walked again...400 men, led by British Gen. Edward Braddock, who spent two months toiling...expedition ended at what is now Braddock, Pa., seven miles short of Fort...
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Re-enactors ready for Braddock's Crossing
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...river crossing, to commemorate Braddock's crossing, would be unique...has been held every year since. Braddock's crossing took place on June...Duquesne. The British, led by Gen. Edward Braddock, who was assisted by a young George...
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Braddock defeat opened Lancaster to attack by French and Indians
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; ...Woods on July 9, 1755. Gen. Edward Braddock and some 1,200 British soldiers...Monongahela. Nearly 1,000 of Braddock's people died on the battlefield...during the French and Indian War. Braddock's army never could have traveled...
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Trailing Braddock, re-enactors gather by the Youghiogheny River
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...enactment of British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's 1755 crossing of the river...the river about 10 years after Braddock's 1755 crossing. The historical...River Bike Trail, a first for the Braddock's Crossing commemoration...
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