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...beef to legitimately compete for a Best Play award. Two of the four nominees this year (Anna in the Tropics and The Retreat From Moscow) closed months ago. And the favorite to win is I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright?s rather trumped-up monologue about an East German transvestite who recounts her life under both Nazism and Communism, which seems mainly the excuse for a bravura performance by Jefferson Mays...
...Armada Allied bombers and fighters flew more than 14,000 mission on D-day, pounding German troop concentrations and strong points along the beaches...
Stalemate at Caen The Allies hoped to take this key city on D-day, but German resistance stiffened. The town didn't fall for six more weeks...
...great German astronomer Johannes Kepler first predicted a transit of Venus, but he died before he could witness the 1631 event. In 1769, the explorer Captain James Cook-just a lieutenant at the time-made his first voyage to the South Pacific in order to view that year's transit from Tahiti. And more than 50 expeditions were launched from the U.S., Britain, Russia and other nations to every corner of the earth to see the 1874 transit...
...with help from a newsman in Houston, recruited Dr. Joe Agris, a plastic surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital, to operate on the men free of charge. The Department of Homeland Security waived visa requirements, and Continental Airlines agreed to fly them to Houston. The U.S. branch of the German prosthetics firm Otto Bock HealthCare donated seven prosthetic hands equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, worth $50,000 apiece, and two Houston firms helped with fitting and rehabilitation. At a cookout in the Texas hill country this month, the men laughed as one imitated Saddam giving commands...