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Robert Zimmerman, more commonly known as Bob Dylan, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, said in a statement. He is the first musician to be...
The literature prize was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday for her “candid and uncompromising” work. NEXT WEEK Still to come next week is the prize for outstanding work in the field of economics. Rate this: Sowing the Seeds of Doubt ...
In private, the two men also agreed to give all possible help to the Soviet Union, to warn Japan against further encroachments in the Far East, and to involve American forces more fully in the Atlantic battle. The summer of 1941 marked the beginning of the mass murder of Europe's Jews....
Museums. This year again we took benefit of every road trip to visit as many museums and castles as we could, among them: Ellis Island, Liberty Island, American Museum of Natural History (New York), MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, Château de Fougères...
t even a basic quiz to demonstrate literacy on any level. Now I get that the founders were all wrapped up in this new found freedom, that they wanted to start a new world where anyone could achieve anything they wished; anyone could obtain the American Dream. I don’t think they put ...
“completely crazy and potentially dangerous”. He praises his willingness to consider savings for the American state: “if he applies these savings in a reasoned way, to reduce the operating costs of the American state, I am sure that it will go very well. If, after that, we start to ...
That year, an African American man named Jesse Owens won four gold medals and struck a blow not only against racism in his own country, but against Hitler's ignorant insistence that his Aryan athletes were representatives of the so-called master race....