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DISTRICT COLUMBIA FIRE DEPARTMENT TO HOST FIRE PREVENTION WEEK HIGHLIGHTING ESCAPE PLANNNING
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The District of Columbia Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services issued the following news release:
It's time for Fire Prevention Week, and from October 7-13 the DC Fire and EMS Department is joining forces with the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association (FFPA) to remind local residents to "Practice Your Escape Plan."
According to the latest NFPA research, 3,030 people died in 2005 in home fires - that's roughly eight people every day. Being alerted to a fire and knowing what to do to escape from one are extremely important, yet only 23 percent of households have planned ...
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Humanist profile: Clarence Darrow 1925 Scopes trial attorney.
Magazine article from: The Humanist
; ...and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. --Clarence Darrow in Why I Am an Agnostic One of the most famous lawyers in U.S. history, Clarence Seward Darrow is best known as a defender of civil liberties and...
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Courting success in role of lawyer
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; Clarence Darrow, King's Theatre **** HOW can you sum up a man's life? Clarence Seward Darrow could have done it and done it beautifully. Darrow was a mess of...
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Oscar 1932 and 1933
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail
; ...patterned after William Jennings Bryan who lost the court case to a lawyer played by Spencer Tracy and patterned after Clarence Seward Darrow). March continued to act until he was 76 years old. His later credits included 1961's The Young Doctors...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Familiar Quotations indicates the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938) expressed that opinion in an interview in Chicago in April 1936. One of Darrow's best-known cases was the 1925 John T. Scopes...
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Is SMS wrecking your English?
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...want to go to KL or PD?", "It's no biggie", and "But that's just soooo kiasu!" abound. As US lawyer Clarence Seward Darrow puts it, "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" Language-related...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Felice Orsini, politician and assassin, executed 1858; Tsar Alexander II of Russia, assassinated 1881; Clarence Seward Darrow, lawyer, 1938; Lucien Lvy-Bruhl, philosopher, 1939; Angela Brazil, writer, 1947; John Middleton Murry...
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Inauguration is a chance for a little history lesson
Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Homer Township - Lockport - Lemont (IL)
; ...famously known as part of the prosecution team that battled Clarence Darrow in the 1925 Scopes trial, which argued evolution versus...into speeches by such famous speakers of their times as Seward, Jefferson Davis, Toombs and Noah Webster, but he...
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