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  2ND QUARTER 2011 - GOOD NAME 07-01-2011

  Eddie was born in St. Louis in 1893 to first generation Irish-American parents. He married at the age of 19, and the first of his three children, ...

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  3RD QUARTER 2011 - GLOIRE 07-01-2011

  Glory is, perhaps, the trait with which the French people most identify. It abounds at Versailles, for example, which immortalizes not so much Louis ...

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  1ST QUARTER 2011 - DECAY 04-01-2011

  Carbon. It's the fourth most abundant element in the universe, second in our bodies only to oxygen, and the only element present in every known form ...

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  ANGELES INVESTMENT ADVISORS ADMITS NEW MEMBER 02-02-2011

  Angeles Investment Advisors announced today that effective 1 January 2011, Stephen T. Smetana was admitted as a new member of the company. Angeles is ...

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  4TH QUARTER 2010 - POX 01-01-2011

  Blossom was a cow.Nothing special, really, just a cow of the ancient breed of Gloucesters, prized for their excellent milk and cheese. Extracting this ...

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  3RD QUARTER - CHOSIN 10-01-2010

  Staring into the abyss, facing total collapse. A bold, even reckless, action to avoid disaster. An advance, and apparent victory. But a sudden turn of ...

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  2ND QUARTER 2010 - DAM 07-01-2010

  American mythology is filled with epic stories of heroic men (and women) who forged a great nation through sheer determination: adventurers and ...

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  1ST QUARTER 2010 - ONE 04-01-2010

  Near Granada, capital of AndalucÃa in southern Spain, sits the Alhambra, literally, red palace, one of the most extraordinary edifices in the ...

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  4TH QUARTER 2009 - APOLOGY 01-01-2010

  It was a time of political tensions, when the resilience, even the very existence, of democratic societyrnwas being severely tested, by external ...

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  3RD QUARTER 2009 - WILBERFORCE 10-01-2009

  Britains rise as the dominant world power for over four centuries was propelled by two foremost, and complementary factors: its mercantilist economic ...

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  2ND QUARTER 2009 - MARATHON 07-01-2009

  Hellespont, the ancient name for the Dardanelles, the narrow straight that connects the Sea of rn Marmara and the Black Sea with the Aegean and ...

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  1ST QUARTER 2009 - ZUGSWANG 04-01-2009

  In central India, approximately 1,500 years ago, there arose a unique game, called Chaturanga, or four parts, referring to the four divisions of an ...

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  4TH QUARTER 2008 - FALSE DAWN 01-01-2009

  Islamic culture flourished, in music and literature (One Thousand and One Nights gave us the stories of Ali Baba and Aladdin, Scheherazade and ...

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  3RD QUARTER 2008 - RETREAT 10-01-2008

  Michael Barclay de Tolly was neither French nor English, although his family traced its roots to the rnBarclay clan of Scotland. He was born in ...

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  2ND QUARTER 2008 - LA CHUTE ("THE FALL") 07-01-2008

  Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, Baron de Gabriac, seigneur de Saint-Veran, Candiac, Tournemine, Vestric, Saint-Julien, and Arpaon, was old French ...

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  1ST QUARTER 2008 - PANIC 04-01-2008

  Butte is a gritty city on the continental divide in western Montana. Amidst the beauty of the Rockies, rn the town is surrounded by strip mines, and ...

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  4TH QUARTER 2007 - DESPAIR 01-01-2008

  Northwest of Philadelphia runs the Schuykill (pronounced Scoo-kul) River. Before the Midwest was settled, before the San Joaquin Valley was irrigated, ...

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  3RD QUARTER 2007 - COMMEDIA 10-01-2007

  Easter Day in Florence, the year 1215: a woman flirted with a man, not her husband. He flirted rn back. The brothers of the offended husband declared ...

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  2ND QUARTER 2007 - CAPITALISM 07-01-2007

  Joszi (pronounced yo-shee, a boys nickname) was born in Triesch, about 75 miles south of Prague in 1883 to a family that had lived in that valley for ...

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  1ST QUARTER 2007 - PRECESSION 04-01-2007

  In a fashionable arrondissement of Paris lived a well known publisher who had made his reputation with an excellent multi-volume collection of the ...

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  3RD QUARTER 2006 - DANCE! 10-01-2006

  Jerry Rabinowitz was born in 1918 to Polish immigrants who ran a deli on the East side of rn Manhattan. A few years later, his dad, Harry, and Harrys ...

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  2ND QUARTER 2006 - BREAKING WAVE 07-01-2006

  On the outskirts of the ancient capital of Edo (Tokyo) in 1760, a boy was born to the Kawamura family. His father worked as a mirror polisher for the ...

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  1ST QUARTER 2006 - DUKE 04-01-2006

  Teenage boys have been hanging out at beaches since, well, probably since there have been rn teenage girls and beaches. A hundred years ago, one such ...

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  4TH QUARTER 2006 - LION'S GATE 01-01-2006

  Thomas Raffles was one of those extraordinary individuals who made the British Empire the BritishrnEmpire. He joined the British East India Company in ...

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