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Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners

Wtop 07 May 2024
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom” won in biography ... She began working on “No Right to an Honest Living” because she wondered how Black people were treated in Boston at a time when the city was a center of anti-slavery activism.
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Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth’s drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 07 May 2024
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom” won in biography ... because she wondered how Black people were treated in Boston at a time when the city was a center of anti-slavery activism.
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Wisconsin Rapids Current: City seeks District 3 alderperson, process will soon begin to fill LHS principal role

Wisconsin Rapids Tribune 07 May 2024
Interested residents should submit a letter of interest along with a biography or resume for the council’s consideration to City Clerk Jennifer Gossick prior to the May 21 Common Council meeting.
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Susan Buckner, who played spirited cheerleader Patty Simcox in ‘Grease,’ dead at 72

CNN 07 May 2024
She was 72 ... City Under Seige.” In her later years, according to a biography provided by Buckner’s publicist, she stepped away from Hollywood to focus on being a mom to her two children, Adam Josephs and Samantha Mansfield ... “She was magic.
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Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth's drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners

Newsday 06 May 2024
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" won in biography ... he loses his longtime job, while a second biography prize was awarded Jonathan Eig for his Martin Luther King biography “King.".
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Plans for Minnehaha Falls park remodel underway

MinnPost 06 May 2024
It’s hard to think of a Twin Cities spot more well-trodden than Minnehaha Falls, the U-shaped waterfall where the creek connecting the Chain of Lakes pours down the Mississippi bluffs ... an Urban Biography.
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On translating the Rizal biography, 'The First Filipino'

The Manila Times 04 May 2024
I TRANSLATED the late Ambassador Leon Maria Guerrero's prize-winning biography of Jose Rizal, "The First Filipino," into Filipino ... This biography won the first prize at the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission biography contest in 1961.
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Two finalists picked for next director of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

The Register Guard 04 May 2024
... to the biography provided by the hiring committee ... Lovell has led the City of Portland’s efforts to protect and restore fish and wildlife and their habitats since 2007, the provided biography said.
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Oklahoma's textbook committee, recently scrutinized over math books, has five new appointments

The Oklahoman 02 May 2024
According to his biography on the city’s website, he attended school in the Tahlequah Public Schools system before obtaining a music education degree from Northeastern State University, also located in Tahlequah.
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

The New Arab 01 May 2024
Musing further on the disappearance, Lal postures whether the incidents in the holy city made Akbar uncomfortable and he did not want history to have a record of Mughal women against the background of a scandal on holy land.
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Thirty years on, Brazil pays tribute to late F1 hero Ayrton Senna

Gulf News 01 May 2024
Founded six months after Senna's death, the institute claims to have benefited some 36 million students in 3,000 Brazilian cities and towns. For Brazilian writer Ernesto Rodrigues, author of the biography "Ayrton.
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Minn. teen faces upgraded manslaughter charge for punch that killed Vietnam veteran

Stars and Stripes 25 Apr 2024
He re-entered the military in 1984 as a Minnesota National Guardsman, drilling once a month and going away for two weeks every summer, according to a biography he wrote and submitted to Twin Cities ...
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Rosemount teen faces upgraded manslaughter charge for punch that killed Vietnam vet

Pioneer Press 25 Apr 2024
He re-entered the military in 1984 as a Minnesota National Guardsman, drilling once a month and going away for two weeks every summer, according to a biography he wrote and submitted to Twin Cities ...
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How Elon Musk keeps ticking along

Hindustan Times 25 Apr 2024
You head to the local Mountain View library to find a sharp-edged Musk biography written by Walter Isaacson in 2023, and that it is checked out and placed on hold by over a hundred people in a city of 50,000.

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