Diane Stresing
Content by Diane Stresing
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When English musician William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, he put the star-gazing community into a spin.
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In the days after his death in 1827, many of Beethoven's friends and admirers snipped off locks of his mane. It was the custom of the time, before the popularity of photography.
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You just had a sack lunch yesterday. This ain't Outward Bound, you know. one hungry smokejumper to another.
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An odyssey is a voyage, literal or spiritual, usually marked by many changes of fortune.
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A quirky gathering of 13 essays, The Century That Was pumps personality into what many consider a dry subject: U.S. history.
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Eleanor's Rebellion: A Mother, Her Son, and Her SecretAdoption is an ancient arrangement dating back to biblical times and probably even earlier.
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Brian Shepard was born on the 4th of July, 1949 in Kankakee, Illinois.
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It is astonishing that the inventor who brought us the lightning rod, bifocals, and the odometer; the writer who brought us Poor Richard's Almanack; and the negotiator behind the 1784 Treaty
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