![]() Listen to the whole show here on Soundcloud or download it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, PlayerFM, or your preferred method of podcast selection. In other words, Thanksgiving fun for the whole family! Andrews while I deep dive into Agatha Christie territory and start speculating about how the incipient murder would take place. In the course of things, Kate creates a shocking backstory worthy of V.C. One that I remember pulling out every year when I was a children’s librarian in NYC. ![]() ![]() That’s because this year, I’m doing a book circa 1971. We got some great suggestions from our readers all of which I am placing on the back burner for next year. ![]() To celebrate the season (though we all know it’s pared down terribly this year) Kate requested a Thanksgiving picture book classic. Sweet potatoes shall never cross this Thanksgiving plate o’ mine. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The first time he ran as a Socialist candidate and garnered few votes. ![]() Unfortunately, it burned down four months later. He also attended the Columbia graduate school.Īfter writing The Jungle, Sinclair invested nearly $30,000 of the proceeds into the Helicon Home Colony, a utopian society being set up in New Jersey. To pay his way through City College of New York he wrote jokes and fiction for magazines and newspapers, as well as dime novels for the firm of Street & Smith. His father was an alcoholic and his immediate family was poor, but he often stayed with his wealthy maternal relatives in New York, allowing him to experience two extremes of American society. The family fortunes had suffered after the Civil War, and so Upton Sinclair had an unusual upbringing that mixed wealth and poverty. Navy then resigned to join the Confederate service. His grandfather, Captain Arthur Sinclair, served first in the U.S. His great-grandfather was Commodore Arthur Sinclair (died 1831), who had served in the War of 1812. His parents came from the Southern gentry, and his father's family had a distinguished naval tradition stretching back to the American Revolution. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar which ultimately led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in U.S. Upton Sinclair (SeptemNovember 25, 1968) wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the early twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if that’s what Robin & Batman is headed for, that’s a hell of a story. Finally, the one who needs love may well be the man in the darkness. Maybe he’s the one who has to fall for Robin to pick him up and open up new opportunities for him. It’s not far, it’s just waiting to open up and swallow it up. A man who knows only one model of functioning, and who does not know how to do otherwise. Batman appears hard and devoid of empathy. It is the only truth and everything must be sacrificed, even childhood. For him, any territory is potentially an enemy territory, any ally potentially a traitor, any fragility must be able to be exploited. He learns the art of war, the art of stealth, espionage, manipulation. Dick Grayson is a child who can’t and will never be like the others. ![]() Good of very good comics, high flying! By far, one of the best comics I’ve had in a long time. neat writing, wonderful drawings, successful plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two months after Charles’ disappearance, he is reported missing again. Charles Morgan body found shot in the back of the head In 1867, the mission of the Secret Service broadened to, “detecting persons perpetrating frauds against the government.” It was part of the Department of Treasury until 2003, and is now part of the Department of Homeland Security. On July 5, 1865, the US Secret Service was formed to catch counterfeiters. He claimed his abductors took his treasury ID, giving her no more details. Ruth resigned to nursing him back to health, after which he told her that for the past two or three years, he had been working as a secret agent for the Treasury Department. She wanted to call the police or get in contact with a physician, but Charles told her not to, and said it would put their family in danger. Ruth gave him a pen and paper, and wrote that there was a hallucinogenic drug in his throat that could destroy his nervous system. He pointed to indicate that he couldn’t speak. His wife, Ruth Morgan reported that he had a plastic handcuff around one ankle, and handcuffs around his hands. Three days later, at 2:00am, he finally returned home. ![]() On March 22, 1977, Charles Morgan, a 29 year-old escrow agent in Tucson, Arizona, went missing after leaving his home, seemingly abducted on the way to his escrow company. ![]() ![]() Tinsley Mortimer Tears Up Remembering Her Youth in Hulu's 'Queenmaker': “Things Have Been Tough Recently” Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me’ on Netflix, a Biodoc That's More Exploitation Than Revelation Stream It Or Skip It: 'Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl' on Hulu, A Documentary About The Socialite Scene of Aughts-Era NYC Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Saint Omer’ on Hulu, A Masterpiece of Maternal Drama Who is Jeff Pickens on '9-1-1'? 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Like medieval England and medieval France, medieval Germany consolidated from a conglomerate of smaller tribes, nations or polities by the High Middle Ages. After 962, when Otto I was crowned emperor, East Francia formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire, which also included the Kingdom of Italy and, after 1032, the Kingdom of Burgundy. The king was elected, initially by the rulers of the stem duchies, who generally chose one of their own. The Kingdom of Germany or German Kingdom ( Latin: regnum Teutonicorum 'kingdom of the Germans', regnum Teutonicum 'German kingdom', regnum Alamanie "kingdom of Germany" ) was the mostly Germanic-speaking East Frankish kingdom, which was formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843, especially after the kingship passed from Frankish kings to the Saxon Ottonian dynasty in 919. Map of the Kingdom of the Germans ( regnum Teutonicorum) within the Holy Roman Empire, circa 1000 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I left the beautiful May weather behind and followed Benedict into the cool darkness of the old building. The reports aren’t due until the end of the month. He dashed ahead of me and yanked the door open.īut we have two weeks. We could be having fun." It was wonderfully warm outside-a perfect day for tossing a baseball around. "This is a terrible idea, I told Benedict as we walked up the stone steps toward the huge wooden door. ![]() Perfect for students who are just getting into reading novels, this fun and fantastical adventure will bring them to a land of magic and teach them a lesson they won't soon forget. Otherwise, they're worried they'll be stuck like this forever. ![]() The two boys find themselves trying to finish their tasks and make it back in time. Now, he keeps getting into more and more trouble as the magical punishment takes over his whole life! Can Logan and Benedict complete the tasks that they need to in three days so that Professor Wordsworth will lift the curse? They're unsure if they can do it, especially when the punishment seems to make everything they do get them into trouble. When Logan accidentally runs into the reference guy in the library basement and gives him a bit of lip service, he finds himself magically punished for his mistake. This fun and inviting book follows Logan and his friend Benedict as they find themselves in a bit of trouble with the magic Professor Wordsworth. ![]() ![]() The story itself has a disjointed and often elliptical feel, as it was originally published in serial form and is intended to convey the mystical associations and interests that the author himself was exploring at the time. ![]() ![]() The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. While the novel is generally focused on Pernath's own musings and adventures, it also chronicles the lives, the characters, and the interactions of his friends and neighbors. This dream was perhaps induced because he inadvertently swapped his hat with the real (old) Pernath's. But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary dream, assumes Pernath's identity thirty years before. The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. ![]() It was first translated into English in 1928. It became his most popular and successful literary work, and is generally described as the most "accessible" of his full-length novels. First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 in the periodical Die Weißen Blätter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig. The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 19. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a scene late in the novel that I want to share with you: a man trapped high in a tree, lashed by his belt to a thick branch to hold him in place in case he falls asleep and relaxes enough to let go. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back - at any cost. ![]() Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. ![]() Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. ![]() And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s award-winning and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, there are many other calendars out there - probably too many - but if you need to have a selection of rambling, playful, hedonistic, and somewhat sadistic cat images on your kitchen wall to make the place seem like home then nothing else will do. ![]() ![]() I was relieved to get our 2012 Kliban cat calendar in the mail a few days ago. There's a poignant and transcendent quality to them that speaks of finding light even in the deepest dark. Yet I still get the feeling that even though he dismissed the Cat drawings, refusing to be interviewed about them even after they became wildly popular, that in them he'd found a universal truth. They are wonderfully irreverent and well worth your attention if you haven't seen them for a while. /rebates/2fip2fThe-Biggest-Tongue-in-Tunisia-and-Other-Drawings-Pre-Owned-Paperback-0140072209-9780140072204-B-Kliban2f1540618564&. Perhaps you're already familiar with his ' other than Cat' cartoons and you may even own a copy of 'Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head' or 'The Biggest Tongue In Tunisia'. Another favorite of his cartoons shows a fakir settling down on a bed of nails while saying, 'It only hurts when I exist.' When Kliban died in 1990, a great many people never realized the world had lost a twisted and irreplaceable visionary. It seems to me that such a gifted artist, one who struggled with the perceptions coming from the dark side of his psyche, was very involved in uncovering essential truths about our plight as human beings. ![]() |