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FOR STRICKEN CHILDREN, SMALL PATCHES OF WARMTH AND LOVE
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Catherine Lewis got the idea in a fabric store in Boston, where
she noticed a poster asking people to donate quilts for babies
infected with AIDS or the HIV virus.
Lewis liked the program's charitable concept, but she was
disappointed that the blankets were heading out of state.
"I didn't like that they were sending them way up to New
Hampshire, so I started looking around locally," said Lewis.
She found two health clinics that were excited to accept her
gifts: the Whittier Street Health Center on Tremont Street in Roxbury
and the Children's AIDS Program in Mattapan. A home economics teacher ...
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Blackbeard's Lair; The 18th-Century Pirate's Path in North Carolina
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...was 275 years ago this month that Blackbeard the pirate - blasphemous and defiant...have penned the above ditty. Today, Blackbeard's still a celebrity. Edward "Ned" Teach, the infamous Blackbeard, met his ignoble end at the hands...
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BLACKBEARD'S LEGENDS HAVE SAILED FARTHER THAN THE MAN.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...the Royal Navy sliced off the head of Blackbeard, they say, British sailors threw his...It may have been easier to remove Blackbeard's head than it is to separate facts...through the myths. Forget the hype. Blackbeard and his pirating peers rarely came to...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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BLACKBEARD"S LAST SECRET; His blood-curdling antics and satanic appearance terrified even his own men. Now the discovery of a pewter syringe in a shipwreck may finally explain his murderous madness...
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...off the coast of North Carolina, Blackbeard's pirate flagship is being recovered...the briny deep. We have to hope that Blackbeard's ghost is not recovered with it...there were evil spirits to be roused, Blackbeard's would surely be one of them. In...
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'Blackbeard' adds to intrigue over pirates.(Daily Break)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: RAYMOND LEACH BLACKBEARD America's Most Notorious Pirate...KONSTAM. Wiley. 322 pp. $24.95. BLACKBEARD AND HIS ILK continue to capture...of reference works on the topic. Blackbeard wasn't the most successful or...
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LEGENDS ABOUT BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE ARE: LARGER THAN LIFE.(CAROLINA COAST)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...KIDDER, CORRESPONDENT For a few months, Blackbeard the Pirate lived in North Carolina as...his legend was larger than life. Blackbeard's legend - and what few facts are...same year, Hornigold gave the ship to Blackbeard. Less than a year later, the heavily...
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Author says Blackbeard was from N. Carolina, not England
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail
; ...history, a Raleigh author claims that Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren't rogue...genealogical research indicates that Blackbeard was probably Edward Beard, son of a...The writer also claims that several of Blackbeard's crew members were not hanged as...
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FANTASY OVERWHELMS THE BLACKBEARD TALE ONE LEGEND: AN EXISTING BRICK HOME IN PASQUOTANK WAS THE PIRATE'S.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...SAITA, STAFF WRITER ELIZABETH CITY -- Blackbeard's ship isn't the only thing that...in his three-year reign of terror, Blackbeard lived in the large 1 1/2-story dwelling...tunnel served as an escape hatch to Blackbeard's ships moored on the Pasquotank River...
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NO BONES ABOUT IT, BLACKBEARD'S SKULL IS QUITE AN ATTRACTION.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...nice day, the silver-plated skull of Blackbeard is exhibit A. The skull - on loan from...Flag: Life Among the Pirates.'' Blackbeard has had a bummer of a reputation for...compliments go, that's about as good as old Blackbeard gets. However, once in a blue moon...
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BOOK TELLS TALES OF BLACKBEARD AND FAMILY.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...REFLECTOR OF GREENVILLE GREENVILLE -- Blackbeard's sister lived in Grimesland and hosted...dastardly deeds on the high seas. In fact, Blackbeard used an old cypress tree on the Tar...research has never revealed anything of Blackbeard's family. Even the local author of...
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rewriting the legend of blackbeard.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...The Virginian-Pilot It's true that Blackbeard fought his final bloody battle at Ocracoke...imaginative than factual, Duffus said. "Blackbeard is certainly a mystery," said Dick...s most widely recognized pirates, Blackbeard, who Duffus said used the name Edward...
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