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Globe and Mail
Golden Gate Bridge marks 75 years since opening against steep odds
Reuters
Kevin Starr, author of "Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge," said 2000 related court cases were filed over nearly a decade. But Starr said litigation and regulatory scrutiny largely concluded in the 1920s allowed builders to ...
Historian says building San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge took courageous bankerBizjournals.com (blog)

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Rockbridge Weekly
Washington and Lee Bestows Two Honorary Degrees
Rockbridge Weekly
You have written about George Washington's leadership, and exercised your own in the enterprise of making his life and times accessible to contemporary audiences. And you have, with generous gesture and good guidance, found common cause with ...

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Boston.com
One man's suspicion, obsession, and an unsolved murder
Boston.com
Yet Janney maintains that his book is neither fictional nor far-fetched, based upon what he knows about the life and times of Mary Meyer, whose 1964 slaying in a Washington, DC, park remains officially unsolved. “She was not just another sexual fling ...

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Book and author event calendar
Richmond Times Dispatch
"Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times" by Cynthia A. Kierner – Book talk and signing at noon at Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St. 692-3592. "Death by Petticoat" by Mary Miley Theobald – Author event at 6:30 pm at ...


 
Imprisoned ex-congressman wants gun rights restored
Los Angeles Times
The letters, included in the San Diego federal court file of Cunningham's case, were revealed in the blog of journalist Seth Hettena, author of a well-received book about Cunningham: "Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy Cunningham, ...

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Bluegrass Today
Rodgers Remembrance Vol VI: Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel No 8)
Bluegrass Today
This week we are going to remember the life and times of America's Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father of Country Music: the late, great Jimmie Rodgers. On Saturday, May 26, Jimmie Rodgers will have been gone 79 years.

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The life and times of Roberto Martinez
Liverpool Echo
He got a degree in physiotherapy and was set to embark on a new career before a meeting with Wigan chairman Dave Whelan changed his life. In the summer of 1995 Whelan, who had travelled to Spain to open up five new JJB Stores, was looking to inject ...

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