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a dedicated amateur of fashion english It is hard to achieve greatness, but harder still to have the passions of greatness without the talents to realize them. For those lacking great skill, the
a. j. plesonton's blue light special english Just off the corner of 19th Avenue and Lincoln is a typical San Francisco house, a white Victorian set back slightly from the avenue. It is easy to miss, we
banvard's folly english The life of John Banvard is the most perfect crystallization of loss imaginable. In the 1850s, Banvard was the most famous living painter in the world, and
he being dead yet speaketh not english Predicting literary reputations is a tricky business. When I was a student at the College of William and Mary, a conservative student newspaper ran a dismis
if only geniuses knew how to scheme english Imagine for a moment a universal language: translatable to color, melody, writing, touch, hand signals, and endless strings of numbers. Imagine now that thi
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the clever dullard english William Henry Ireland was a dullard. That, at least, is what everyone always told him. Born of dubious parentage in 1775 to London engraver and antiquarian
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the pneumatic underground english Cryptic invitations arrived at the City Hall offices of Boss Tweed and his cronies earlier in the week: UNDER BROADWAY RECEPTION To State Officers, Members
waking on the rings of saturn english Life on the moon! It seemed too good to be true—and so it was, in the end. But for a few weeks in 1835, it was as real as the newspaper gripped between ever
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