11/23/2008 -
'Whiskey Rebels' blends fiction, history
In a vivid mix of fiction and history, "The Whiskey Rebels" is told through the eyes of the two fictional characters, Ethan Saunders and Joan Maycott, augmented by historical figures that include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. It is a story which, in its own way, is the story of the founding of America.
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The Post and Courier
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/nov/23/whiskey_rebels_blends_fiction_history 62582/
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11/23/2008 -
Train exhibit takes visitors into county?s past
If you have a vivid imagination, you can almost see the little town in the atrium come to life ? the tiny plastic people and animals go about their business, the trains chug around the tracks and the place bustles with energy.
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The Danville Commercial-News
http://www.commercial-news.com/local/local_story_327193937.html
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11/22/2008 -
Bolly good: The vivid posters that take Mumbai's movies to the masses
The area of South Delhi known as Hauz Khas village is a window-shopper's delight, a haven of quiet but expensive arts and antiques shops, restaurants and galleries.
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/bolly-good-the-vi vid-posters-that-take-mumbais-movies-to-the-masses-1026060.html
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11/22/2008 -
Internet affair leads to couple's divorce
For its many devotees, the Second Life virtual world is a place where the everyday constraints of normal life drop away and vivid fantasies can be played out. But fact and fiction have collided for a British couple who are divorcing after the wife discovered her husband's online alter-ego - a goatee-bearded, medallion-wearing hombre called Dave Barmy - with another woman, also virtual. ...
Source:
Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/14/second-life-virtual-worlds-divo rce
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11/22/2008 -
Garden of Collage art exhibit at Bok Tower
The multi-layered collages of artist Don Kah will be on display at Bok Tower Gardens Nov. 26 through Jan. 29. The title of the exhibition, ?Garden of Collage: Colors, Layers and Textures? describes the vivid artwork by the Avon Park artist.
Source:
Lake Wales News
http://www.lakewalesnews.com/articles/2008/11/22/entertainment/doc492719bb746470 96498051.txt
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11/21/2008 -
Calif. trains collide; no serious injuries
A Metrolink commuter train sideswiped a freight train Thursday, causing no serious injuries but bringing back still-vivid memories of a deadly train wreck in the region just two months ago.
Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_re_us/trains_collide_5
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11/22/2008 -
NTSB: Train ran red signal in this week's crash
A Southern California commuter train that sideswiped a freight train this week had run a red signal, an investigator said Friday, and officials are looking at brake problems or human error as possible causes. No serious injuries were reported, but the accident stirred still-vivid memories of a deadly train collision in the region in September between a Metrolink commuter train and a freight ...
Source:
The State
http://www.thestate.com/166/story/598341.html?RSS=untracked
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11/22/2008 -
NTSB: Train ran red signal in this week's crash
(By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Writer) A Southern California commuter train that sideswiped a freight train this week had run a red signal, an investigator said Friday, and officials are looking at brake problems or human error as possible causes. No serious injuries were reported, but the accident stirred still-vivid memories of a deadly train collision in the region in September between a ...
Source:
The Charlotte Observer
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/nation/story/369285.html
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11/22/2008 -
NTSB: Train Ran Red Signal in this Week's Crash
A Southern California commuter train that sideswiped a freight train this week had run a red signal, an investigator said Friday, and officials are looking at brake problems or human error as possible causes. No serious injuries were reported, but the accident stirred still-vivid memories of a deadly train collision in the region in September between a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train.
Source:
FOX 11 News Los Angeles
http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7924030&version=1&a mp;locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
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11/21/2008 -
Second Life affair leads to real life divorce
For its many devotees, the Second Life virtual world is a place where the everyday constraints of normal life drop away and vivid fantasies can be played out. But fact and fiction have collided in heartbreaking fashion for a British couple who are divorcing after the wife discovered her real-life husband's online alter-ego, a goatee-bearded, medallion-wearing hombre called Dave Barmy, with ...
Source:
Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/13/second-life-divorce
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11/23/2008 -
NTSB: Metrolink engineers were trying to stop train
INVESTIGATION: The commuter train ran a red light before hitting a freight train Thursday in Rialto.
Source:
The Press-Enterprise
http://www.pe.com/localnews/rialto/stories/PE_News_Local_N_trains23.49066c1.html ?npc
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11/21/2008 -
Low prices, hard-working people, history mark vivid journey in Vietnam
HOI AN, Vietnam -- Temples and monuments are interesting. But they don't hold a candle to Vietnam's people. ...
Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08326/925248-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml
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11/22/2008 -
Student mag's racy pic sparks controversy
A student magazine at Britain's Cambridge University has raised controversy by publishing a topless picture of a female undergraduate.Vivid Magazine, which has a distribution of more than 5,000 including students from all of the university's 31 colleges, printed the photo of the blond student, whose name was not printed, wearing only a black lacy thong and stockings while straddling the historic ...
Source:
Moldova.org
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/166946/
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11/23/2008 -
Editor cooks up stellar kitchen tales
When a person has spent more than 40 years as the editor to fiction heavyweights such as Anne Tyler and John Updike and cookbook authors such as Julia Child, there's a certain expectation.
Source:
Deseret Morning News
http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705264679,00.html
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11/22/2008 -
Back to the land for 'Australia's' Baz Luhrmann
A continent-sized vision drove the director to make his epic. The most recognizable stars of Baz Luhrmann's cattle-drive drama ?Australia? are Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. But on a December day nearly two years ago, even as Kidman flitted about Luhrmann's creative compound in the hills above Sydney, all of the Australian writer-director's attention was focused on an actor who is just as ...
Source:
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-baz23-2008nov23,0,4067952 .story?track=rss
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