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Saga Communications Inc
Saga Communications, Inc. 73 Kercheval AvenueGrosse Pointe Farms, Michigan 48236U.S.A.(313) 886-7070Fax: (313) 886-7150 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1986Employees: 747Sales: $66.3 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: AmericanTicker Symbol: SGASICs: 4832 Radio Broadcasting Stations; 4833 Television... Read more |
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Saga (Japan)
Saga , city (1990 pop. 169,963), capital of Saga prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan. It is a railroad and coal-distribution center. Cotton textiles and ceramics are produced in the city. A castle town in feudal times, Saga was the center of a rebellion in 1874. Saga prefecture (1990 pop. 877,865), 946 sq... Read more |
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Don Marquis
Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis) , 1878-1937, American author, b. Walnut, Ill. In 1912 he began the humorous column "The Sun Dial" in the New York Sun and later conducted "The Lantern" in the Herald Tribune. He invented various characters of gay satire, notably "archy the... Read more |
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Leif Ericsson
Leif Ericsson , Old Norse Leifr Eiriksson, fl. AD 999-1000, Norse discoverer of America, b. probably in Iceland; son of Eric the Red . He spent his youth in Greenland and in 999 visited Norway, where he was converted to Christianity and commissioned by King Olaf I to carry the faith to Greenland.... Read more |
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saga
saga in Old Norse literature , especially Icelandic and Norwegian, narrative in prose or verse, centering on a legendary or historical figure or family. Sagas may be divided into sagas of the kings, mainly of early Norwegian rulers; Icelandic sagas, both biographical and historical; contemporary... Read more |
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Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver 1955-, American writer, b. Annapolis, Md.; grad. DePauw Univ. (B.S., 1977), Univ. of Arizona (M.S.). She studied biology and ecology and was a science writer before completing The Bean Trees (1988), a novel about a young woman who leaves Kentucky for Arizona, where she lives... Read more |
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Scott v. Sandford
Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. (60 U.S.) 393 (1857), argued 11–14 Feb. 1856 and 15–18 Dec. 1856, decided 6–7 Mar. 1857 by vote of 7 to 2; Taney for the Court, Curtis and McLean in dissent. Scott v. Sandford (1857) stands as one of the most important cases in American... Read more |
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Thorfinn Karlsefni
Thorfinn Karlsefni , fl. 1002-15, Icelandic leader of an attempt to colonize North America. He appeared in Greenland in 1002 and married Gudrid, widow of one of the sons of Eric the Red . He set out c.1010 with an expedition consisting of three ships and 160 men to settle in Vinland , which Leif... Read more |
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William George Fargo
William George Fargo 1818-81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express company in Buffalo, N.Y., when in 1844, with Henry Wells and another partner, he organized Wells & Company, the... Read more |
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Howard Fast
Howard Fast 1914-2003, American author, b. New York City. A prolific writer, he is best known for historical novels that mainly concern rebellion against various forms of tyranny. They include Citizen Tom Payne (1943), Freedom Road (1944), My Glorious Brothers (1948), Spartacus (1951), and ... Read more |
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Eleanor Takes A Beating in Family Saga Of Roosevelts
The Roosevelts An American Saga. By Peter Collier and...Horowitz, whose family sagas include The Kennedys...worthy new subject, the Roosevelts. For pure drama, nothing...Roosevelts: An American ... |
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The Roosevelts: An American Saga.
...substantial subliterature on American dynasties. Before they came...almost out of Thomas Mann. The Roosevelts is at least a partial return...marital failures of those other Roosevelts." Those failures in marriage...memorable passages in The Roosevelts ... |
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The War of the Roosevelts
THE ROOSEVELTS An American Saga By Peter Collier with David Horowitz...American Epic"; now they offer us the Roosevelts as "An American Saga." But no...dynasties remains constant. In The ... |
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The Ruling Class; A family saga of secrecy, oil money and privilege.
AMERICAN DYNASTY: Aristocracy...parties, the two Roosevelts were separated by...about the altered American political landscape...and the Adamses, Roosevelts and Kennedys, one...appearances in the Bush saga," Phillips writes... |
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A deeply divided family The Roosevelt political dynasty dominated American...
...of the men inspired Americans, for different reasons...articles as "a brashly American version of the Renaissance...according to the book, The Roosevelts: An American Saga, by Peter Collier...public successes the Roosevelts ... |
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WNY GOP HAD MEMORABLE ROLE IN ROOSEVELT SAGA
...dramatic contest had a profound effect on American history. One of the central figures...William McKinley at the Queen City's Pan American Exposition of 1901. A dream of the Roosevelt...results also spelled an end to Oyster Bay Roosevelts' hopes of a political dynasty. As ... |
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Campus uproar continues over controversial ad
...that reparations are owed to descendants of American slaves. Horowitz wrote that these events...An American Drama," "The Fords: An American Epic" and "The Roosevelts: An American Saga." The debate continues as 19 campus ... |
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No Ordinary Time, No Ordinary Couple
S eldom has the American public received such...book that looks at the Roosevelts during World War II...war industries. The Roosevelts' achievements as a...internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast...him out of that. The Roosevelts' ... |
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Across America, a loss of youth and promise
...John O'Hara, the Irish-American novelist, said on a hot July...is different because of Americans' attitude about history...glory began on the margins of American society, an underdog dynasty...vanished in America. The Kennedy saga covers most of the ... |
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Dirty laundry.(attorney-client privilege)
...and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. When I learned the program...be safe. For a long time during this saga it appeared that executive privilege would...Madison, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. But... |