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Dorchester County
“The injuries of slavery and its aftermath are palpable across these villages and farm communities, and the region’s relationship with Tubman’s legacy, and that of the Underground Railroad is, to the outsider, surprisingly fraught.” By Katie Ryder. (July 14, 2016)
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Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States
The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures. By Rosalyn Eves.
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Kenny Baker, 'Star Wars' Actor Behind R2-D2, Dead at 81
Kenny Baker, the actor who portrayed the robot R2-D2 in six 'Star Wars' films, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81.
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How a Combat Photographer Named a Phenomenon to Honor Soldiers
While embedded with troops in Afghanistan in the late 2000s, war photographer and writer Michael Yon captured numerous photos of the sparkling halo that can appear when a helicopter’s rotors hit sand and dust... By Michael Zhang.
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The 8 Most Bad-Ass Women Of World War II
These heroes helped decide the outcome of the war. By Erin Kelly.
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‘The radical inside the system’: Tom Hayden, protester-turned-politician, dies at 76
Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after a lengthy illness. By Michael Finnegan.
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The Last Days of Dave Mirra
As many speculate what may have led to Mirra’s death, friends say that he struggled with being an aging athlete who no longer dominated his competition. By Matt Higgins. (Feb. 17, 2016)
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Dogs are too amazing to let go, but sometimes it happens and they will forgive you
R.I.P. Hannah.
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Syd Barrett: Cambridge honours its ‘Crazy Diamond’
As Cambridge celebrates the life and work of one its most famous musical sons, BBC News looks at the legacy Syd Barrett left in the city and beyond. By Jodie Halford.
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The Writer Who Was Too Strong To Live
Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. By Dave McKenna.
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John Zacherle, Host With a Ghoulish Perspective, Dies at 98
Mr. Zacherle was one of early television’s horror-movie hosts, playing an undertaker and other characters on stations in Philadelphia and New York in the 1950s and ’60s. By William Grimes,
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Whirl
For almost sixty years, the weekly St. Louis Evening Whirl brazenly attacked criminals, exposed the sexual peccadilloes of the black bourgeoisie, and racked up millions in libel claims— most of the time in iambic, rhyming couplets. By Scott Eden.
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America’s First Female Rocket Scientist Ran Away From Home to Become a Chemist
Today would have been Mary Morgan’s 95th birthday. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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Tom Hayden and the Vocation of Politics (1939-2016)
“The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy blew up a lot of patience. The Democratic Party, hell-bent on the atrocious Vietnam war, careened toward its 1968 crack-up, in which the demonstrations that Tom helped organize at the Democratic Convention in Chicago played no small part.” By Todd Gitlin.
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There Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In: Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions
A generous reminder that we must aim for “a revelation in the heart rather than a confrontation or a call-to-arms or a defense.” By Maria Popova.
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John Glenn Had This Reply To A Politician Who Said He ‘Never Held A Job’
When his Senate primary opponent, Howard Metzenbaum, challenged his military service, John Glenn had the perfect response. By Brian Adam Jones.
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The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions
Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha County. Welcome to [Gabriel] García Márquez’ Macondo. By William Kennedy. (Jan. 1973)
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The Times They Lived 2016
Remembering Muhammad Ali, Gwen Ifill, David Bowie, Natalie Cole and more of those we lost in the past year.
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Piers Sellers, Space Shuttle Astronaut and NASA Climate Scientist, Dies at 61
Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist and NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions, died on Friday (Dec. 23). He was 61. By Robert Z. Pearlman.
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The Rooms They Left Behind
After the deaths of these 10 notable people, The New York Times photographed their private spaces — as they left them. Photographs by Mitch Epstein.
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