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1865 baseball card found in Maine to be auctioned
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Six-figure bids are expected when an auction house sells a rare 148-year-old baseball card that was discovered at a yard sale in rural Maine, the auction house manager said Wednesday. A man found the card by chance in a...
Tags: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Sports, Honus Wagner, Baseball, Coca-Cola Co.
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MUSIC VIDEO: South Bend rapper honors the Irish with "The Champs"
A South Bend rap music artist known as Million has created a tribute song honoring the amazing season the Notre Dame football program has experienced. The song, titled "The Champs," has been copyrighted with the United States Library of Congress and has...
Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Entertainment, Multiple Sclerosis, YouTube, Rap (genre)
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Amid frenzy over map apps, new focus on 16th century world view
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique "cosmology" printed in 1507 that serves as America's birth certificate. The black-and-...Tags: Google Inc., Science and Technology, Geography, Politics, Mountains
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White House fights and loses battle to withhold Benghazi records
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's White House fought and lost a battle to avoid making public what it claimed were confidential records of internal deliberations over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya last September....Tags: John O. Brennan, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Dick Cheney, Prosecution, Politics
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Carole King to be honored with Obama-hosted show, Gershwin Prize
Carole King seems to have fans in high places: The singer-songwriter's life will be staged with an eye toward Broadway, and next week her oeuvre will be honored at the White House. Officials announced Friday that President Obama will host a star-studded...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Barack Obama, Music Theater, Entertainment
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The men who would be Gatsby
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of a handful of actors who have portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic protagonist “The Great Gatsby” in film and TV over the last 87 years. Warner Baxter, who won the best actor Oscar as the Cisco Kid in the...Tags: Movies, Rod Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, Macdonald Carey, The Hollywood Reporter
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READER SUBMITTED: Wethersfield Library Adult Summer Reading Program Kick-Off With Gina Barreca
WethersfieldWethersfield Library, 515 Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield is pleased to announce that Dr. Gina Barreca, professor, writer and humorist, will be the guest speaker at the 2013 Adult Summer Reading Program kick-off. Join us Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m. in...Tags: Phil McGraw, BBC, NPR, Education, Oprah Winfrey
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Hollywood Trade Groups Tepid About Harvey Weinstein's Royalty Scheme
ReutersMay 08 (TheWrap.com) - Harvey Weinstein's hopes of getting Congress to enact a royalty-based compensation system for movie clips played on the web so far appears to be a long shot. None of the movie industry trade associations are rushing to champion...Tags: Netflix Inc., Cinema Industry, Politics, U.S. Congress, Justice System
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READER SUBMITTED: Artist Celebrates 90th Birthday With Show At Gregory James Gallery
New Milford"All About Hue II," a new exhibit opening May 4th at the Gregory James Gallery, New Milford, is a celebration of color - and the 90th birthday of featured artist Ralph Della-Volpe. Known primarily for his work as a colorist, Della-Volpe, whose birthday...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Arts, Fine Artists, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum
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Frank Capra's 'The Donovan Affair' gets a live soundtrack
Frank Capra is best known for the three films for which he won the directing Oscar — 1934's "It Happened One Night," 1936's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and 1938's "You Can't Take It With You" — and the ultimate Christmas flick, 1946's "It's a...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, It's a Wonderful Life (movie)
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
Column: Sales tax bill ill-advised
It was a happy day for me when, years ago, the Little Professor Book Center opened in Lakewood Mall. It was an equally sad day when it recently closed its doors. In today's environment, a small bookstore has one big problem and one insurmountable...Tags: Literature, E-Commerce Industry, Politics, U.S. Congress, Arts and Culture
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