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Sydney Writers' Festival: Melanie Joosten, Rohan Wilson, Jennifer Mills
Sydney Morning Herald
Rohan Wilson, 35 They whistled for Black Bill through the foredawn and called his old clan name behind it, a name he had no good use for. He sat upright on the bed and looked about. The fire in the hearth was dead and the hut utterly without light.


 
How I Fell for Lisbon
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
There's no equivalent of Madrid's Prado, though I do recommend the Tile Museum, dedicated to the decorative fillip that makes the city so distinctive. There's no religious structure as visually iconic as Florence's Duomo, though you should treat ...

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ESPN.co.uk
Bruce Grobbelaar: Tears of a clown
ESPN.co.uk
He had been second-choice at the club initially - former Wolves goalkeeper Phil Parkes was established as the No. 1 - and to gain first-team experience agreed to a loan spell with Crewe Alexandra in December that year. Crewe were rooted to the bottom ...


 
A new name for Hampton Roads, homegrown chickens, and a flag at the fortress
Daily Press
Then in the 1980s, a group of visionaries decided Tidewater wasn't distinctive enough — after all there are tidewaters in many other US locales — so the area was rechristened to match the historical nautical name for the body of water at its heart.

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PennLive.com
Mechanicsburg Area School District Internet communications policy under review
PennLive.com
The policy notes that users should expect no right to privacy and are accountable or the content of the communications that they state or post on social media sites. There can be no use of the name or logo of the Mechanicsburg Area School District in ...

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New York Times
Houston Tries to Find a Use for Its Fading Astrodome
New York Times
Those two projects, replacing the arena and turning the Astrodome into a multi-use site, would cost the county $523 million, not counting the $30 million in debt the county still owes on the Astrodome. The multipurpose facility is the most expensive ...

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Born for Biltmore
Charlotte Observer
The horse raced under a name Cecil's tycoon ancestors would appreciate: Treasure Seeker. The laird of Biltmore prefers to call him Pig Pen. Bill Cecil and his son were out hunting wild turkey in the rain in 2010 when he got a call that the president ...