Avatar Posted by duke 154 days ago (http://reporternews.com)
Category: Death Notices
Eloisa Hernandez; Estella Johnson; Maria R. Martinez; Edward C. Mason, Jr.; Jo Ella McLeod Leverich Mason; Hazel Redus; Vestal A. Searcy; Wilma Faye Kimmell Calder Wilhite read more »
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Avatar Posted by duke 154 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
Category: This Day in History
As FBI director from 1924 until his death in 1972, Hoover built a more efficient crime-fighting agency and established a centralized fingerprint file, a crime laboratory, and a training school for police. After WWII, he turned to the perceived threat of Communist subversion with a focus that his many critics considered obsessive. It has been verified that he orchestrated systematic harassment of political dissenters and activists, including what celebrated civil-rights leader?
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Avatar Posted by duke 154 days ago (http://news.google.com)
Category: In Memory

Superfit gran sets target in memory of Yeadon grandson
Wharfedale and Airedale Observer, UK - May 8, 2008
... in Jane Tomlinson's Run for All in Leeds next month to raise funds for the city-based Children's Heart Surgery Fund in memory of eight-month-old Orion. ...
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 154 days ago (http://girltalk.blogs.com)
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It is so encouraging to me to remember my grandma, and what an impact this quiet, gentle woman had on my life. I saw my grandmother for only a week each year during my childhood and adolescence, and yet she was the one God used to inspire me to want to be a wife, mother, and homemaker. Grandma was very shy and reserved - she never had deep conversations with me, or gave out profound wisdom. All she did was to live out the quiet and loving life of a faithful wife and mother. Most books writt read more »
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Avatar Posted by duke 153 days ago (http://reporternews.com)
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Continuing the challenge: event raises scholarship funds in memory ...
Portage Daily Register, WI - May 9, 2008
Conner McConnell, 5, the son of Colette Carr-Larson, walks with his cousin, Ryan McConnell, 12, at Bob Mael Field in Portage on Thursday for Colette's ...
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 153 days ago (http://ryanbarrett.typepad.com)
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Something’s been nagging at me for a few days now, and it just keeps resurfacing. In the news, on the blogs, and even in my own personal life. It has to do with words. In my own life, I don’t use words that implicitly refer to an underrepresented and/or minority group of people – even if these words have been adopted by mainstream culture. I don’t use words that backhandedly belittle and degrade the lifestyle and mannerisms of a cultural group and its members, particularly when this group i read more »
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 153 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
Category: Today's Birthday
Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter who studied under Francois Rude. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1854, he moved there and studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello, and Verrocchio. He obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861, he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, which brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. His controversial sculpture, La Danse, is on the facade of what building in Paris?
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