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Complicated truth; Scopes Trial is the backdrop for new novel.(Travel-Books)
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Byline: BETH RUCKER
Ronald Kidd knows readers are going to want him to take sides in the current evolution debate being argued in schools and courts across the country.
After all, his new novel for young people is about the 1925 Scopes Trial, which pitted science against the biblical story of creation in a hyped-up show trial in east Tennessee.
But Kidd's book isn't about settling an argument.
Instead, he wants "Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial" (Simon & Schuster; 272 pages; $15.95) to re-create a moment in history through the ...
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Royal odds on favourites to beat S. Thomas'
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Observer
; ...no doubt blazed a trail never witnessed in any sport before. From Independent Ceylon's first Prime Minister Don Stephen Senanayake (STC) to post-Independent Sri Lanka's first Executive President Junius Richard Jayewardene (Royal), to...
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Monday, October 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...1723); Arthur Rimbaud, French author (1854-1891); John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (1859-1952); Don Stephen Senanayake, first prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (1884-1952); Tom Petty, U.S. singer (1950...
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Thursday, October 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...1723); Arthur Rimbaud, French author (1854-1891); John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (1859-1952); Don Stephen Senanayake, first prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (1884-1952), Tom Petty, U.S. singer (1950...
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Ceylon's struggle against Indian immigrants
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...Indian line on this issue. This dichotomy existed right though the struggle on the Indian issue. In 1925, Don Stephen Senanayake of the Ceylon National Congress (CNC) who later became independent Ceylon's first Prime Minister, argued...
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