January 2010
57 posts
“What really knocks me out is a book, when you’re all done reading it, you...”
– Holden Caulfield RIP Mr Salinger.
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
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Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
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Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot boy bandit,... →
“Police believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises.
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He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods...
