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Owners of Super teams: Football fan, football man
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DETROIT -- Dan Rooney was attending the funeral of Giants owner
Wellington Mara in October when he felt a tap on his shoulder.
He turned around and saw Bill Parcells.
"You have to carry the torch," the two-time Super Bowl-winning
coach told the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. "You're our guiding
light now."
The 73-year-old Rooney has been one of the NFL's inner circle for
a quarter-century or longer.
But the death of Mara, the New York Giants owner who died at 89,
made Rooney the last active member of the NFL's founding fathers. Or,
more accurately, the son of a founding father: Art Rooney, ...
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Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
Magazine article from: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
; Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby. By James A. Ramage. (Lexington...volume is, "Oh, no! Not another Mosby chronicle!" By now there are...Ramage's masterful examination of John Singleton Mosby's life is undoubtedly...
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Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby. By James A. Ramage. (Lexington...Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Ky...Confederate cavalryman. John S. Mosby stands among the best of the Confederacy...
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Rebel.(Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch
; Rebel John Singleton Mosby Bison Books c/o University of Nebraska Press 1111 Lincoln Mall...a fierce and zealous warrior. "Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby" is the life story of an unsung hero. When the civil war kicked...
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Will the real John Singleton Mosby please stand up?
Magazine article from: Military Images
; My friend John Sickles sent us a print of the image you...know if this could possibly be a young John Mosby, the famed "Gray Ghost of the Confederacy...at eight images in "The Many Faces of John Mosby" in Time-Life's Civil War volume...
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The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and...PERHAPS no moment epitomized the career of John Singleton Mosby more completely than his capture of Union...infamous Stoughton, "did you ever hear of Mosby?" Stoughton rolled over, "Yes, have...
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The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...and lingering fascination with John Singleton Mosby, a Confederate cavalry colonel known as the "Gray Ghost." Mosby commanded a small ragtag force...Caudill, drawn to a mythic idea of Mosby, attempt to sort out the "complex...
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Adventure, romance around Mosby's Rock.(B)(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Historical Marker will be dedicated for Mosby's Rock.(spade)The inscription...the frequent gatherings of Col. John Singleton Mosby's partisan Rangers at this favorite...dedication was highly valued by Mosby and by his boss, Maj. Gen. Jeb...
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Hunt for Mosby was similar to `Moby Dick'.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...s most notorious soldiers, the wily John Singleton Mosby. At the time, Melville hardly enjoyed...defend Washington from attacks by Col. Mosby and his band of guerrillas. By April 1864, Mosby's men had become famous for raids against...
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Mosby's raiders hit Union supply lines; Guerrillas plunder train with help of expensive howitzer.(ARTS & CULTURE)(THE CIVIL WAR)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...partisan rangers such as Maj. John Singleton Mosby's elusive band, the rear-area...Gen. J.E.B. Stuart advised Mosby on April 26, 1863, that the quasi...feasible, Stuart continued, if Mosby struck the rail line "far enough...
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'Gray Ghost' Mosby Rides Again in the Name of Heritage
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...The horse-riding man represents Col. John Singleton Mosby. For two years during the Civil War, the...federal command as a terrorist. The image of Mosby astride his horse and the words "Mosby Heritage Area" appear on 14 large signs...
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