Word: extant
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DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. announced Thursday that he would donate a valuable historical manuscript to Yale University. Harvard libraries had also been seeking the manuscript, the first extant narrative written by a female slave in America...
...council also discussed ways to improve course forecasting using extant data, perhaps tapping the abilities of the computer science department...
...Finally Found Someone for Barbra Streisand. He has been honored with numerous awards from the American Society of Composers and Producers and has never accepted a single one. He has not done an interview for 30 years, rarely leaves his home and recently purchased the rights to nearly every extant photo of him. Luke Lewis, head of Twain's record label and one of Lange's few confidants, says, "I don't think he's an agoraphobe." But he adds, "You wouldn't be the first to call Mutt Lange a little strange." And more than a little rich...
...Many of these films were lost for decades, then recovered and restored; many are still missing. But enough are extant - and available from the resourceful archivists at Facet Multimedia - to give ample evidence of Micheaux's social fervor, his rudimentary story-telling technique and his peculiar views on uplifting the Negro race. Micheaux's films must be seen to be disbelieved. But for a full understanding of movie history and film style, black history and American history, they surely must be seen...
...Flight 93 stayed aloft a few seconds longer, it would have plowed into Shanksville-Stonycreek School and its 501 students, grades K through 12. Instead, at 10:06 a.m., the plane smashed into a reclaimed section of an old coal strip mine. The largest pieces of the plane still extant are barely bigger than a telephone book. "I just keep thinking--two miles," said elementary principal Rosemarie Tipton. "There but for the grace of God--two miles...