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These slave-owners include men like the Prophet Muhammad, William Penn, the great Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, and influenced Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the unforgettable words of the Declaration of Independence, Demosthenes, influential ancient Greek statesman, many US presidents, including George ...
And let me end this piece on the death of land lines (which work so much better without recharging) and pay phones with the words of Todd Martens, who wrote about the Goodbye Line in the Los Angeles Times. It’s a fascinating article and one that ends with this well-written paragraph:...
but this year the staff was over the top great. In spite of being understaffed, they went above and beyond to make sure things went smoothly for us, from the wait staff at the bar/restaurant to the cleaning staff. Shout out to all the people who worked hard so we could have fun and...
Howard, who wrote a standing feature for the Birmingham News Age, though I cannot determine the precise span of its run. Howard called himself the “Vagabond Reporter.” I expect members of his family still live in Birmingham, though I didn’t try to contact them. I know that he bought ...
My dad wrote the chapter ‘How Professor of Math Escaped Czechoslovakia.’ It is an account of his physical escape from the country, and his plans for how he plotted the whole escape. “Can you visualize a math professor taking a painted dinghy across the Black Sea to Turkey?” Palova sa...
From the Introduction:Three decades ago, I wrote of events two decades before. I wrote of an extraordinary body of work created in the span of less than one decade that had survived the test of time. Today, for readers today and for readers two or five decades in the future, I can ex...
She wrote to relatives who had left years earlier for the United States. After months, a reply arrived from a sister, whose rabbi husband had found work in Minnesota as a kosher slaughterer. They knew someone loaning money to help Jews escape the menace and chaos of the fledgling Soviet Un...