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10 Historical Novels NOT Set During World War II
The drama and conflict of the World War II era have inspired so many great novels — from Atonement and The English Patient to ...
80 years after D-Day, family of Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 wounded men — all while small arms and artillery fire pummeled the beach — before ...
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80 Years After D-Day, the Family of a Black World War II Combat Medic Receives His Medal for Heroism
A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is being honored ...
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Biden makes 'anarchy' statement in last ever UN speech - quotes Irish poet to address Ukraine freedom and the pandemic
The US president used the poignant words of an Irish great to sum up the state of the world in his last UN address ...
Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he ...
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Turning to a poet for hope in another time of war [column]
A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...
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Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
Paratroopers from the Dutch Air Mobile Brigade and 12 other NATO nations took part in jumps watched by WWII veterans and ...
The great poetry in Van Gogh’s work and a bewitching antihero – what you should watch and do this week
There’s a deeply affecting episode of Dr Who set in late 19th-century rural France that sees the good doctor take Vincent van ...
A century later, Black soldiers get the recognition they never got after World War I
The new World War I Memorial in D.C. has a sculpture wall that honors the contributions of Black soldiers, who rarely were ...
Britten's choir reunites after local newspaper ad
The recording, made in 1963, sold 200,000 copies in just five months (almost unheard of for a classical work) and won Britten ...
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Poet Li-Young Lee receives $100,000 lifetime achievement prize from Poetry Foundation
Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize, and Carole Boston Weatherford has been named the new Young People’s Poet Laureate By HILLEL ITALIE – Associated Press Sept 10, 2024 ...