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One of the few advantages of growing old is that you get a better sense of what you do and dont like (although a certain grumpiness sets in that leads to a lot less of the former and a lot more of the latter).

  Mabel Collins (1851-1927) was born Minna Mabel Collins in 1851 at St Peters Port, Guernsey, and though never formally educated, she proved a It was borne in her mind that this alleged “doctor friend” was nothing more than a figment in D’Onston’s imagination, invented to conceal his own identity with Jack the Ripper. She was now convinced, beyond all doubt, that the man standing before her was in fact the Whitechapel murderer.

US serial murder-melodrama directed by David Lynch running from April 1990 to June 1991 on ABC. Twin Peaks garnered great critical and commercial recep...

As war at its most brutal rears its head, veteran film critic David Thomson's latest book, 'The Fatal Alliance,' wants us to rethink the war-movie genre.

Renowned fantasy and sf artist Rowena Morrill, who just last year received the Lifetime Achievement World Fantasy Award, died February 11 at the age of 76. Popular with fans, she also won the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 1984, and was a four-time Hugo finalist for Best Professional Artist. Her professional peers made

FOCUS ON HISTORY - An Irish immigrant woman who lived and worked in Amsterdam became a national union leader in the 19th century.Leonora Kearney Barry wrote. “Day after day, I sat sewing men’s trousers for five cents a dozen.”Leonora was born in 1849 in Cork. Her parents, John and Honor Kearney, fle

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Having left New Ipswich, New Hampshire for Quincy in 1828, Benjamin Safford became ill and died in Roscoe, Ohio. A year later John P. Robbins, Safford’s son-in-law, began the same

Canadian politicians held little influence with Collingwood Schreiber when it came to organizing railway routes.