Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day, the University announced the purchase of land south of Mass Ave., from Dunster St. to Plympton St. and some various plots by the river...
Located astride the headwaters of the Nile River, the Sudan is rich in history but little else. It was the home of the dervishes who defeated and put to death Britain's General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon in 1885, and who were in turn defeated by a punitive expedition under General Herbert Kitchener. Until 1956, the Sudan was nominally ruled by Britain and Egypt. Then it asserted independence and took possession of the largest land area of any African nation. Independence brought a bitter civil conflict, now 13 years old, between the 10 million Arabs of the north...
...adorn our houses with American prospects and American skies." Cole may well have listened to this very injunction, having worked his way to New York by this time. During the summer he embarked on what was to be the first of many summer sketching trips up the Hudson River Valley...
After a search ranging from the River Po to the Bay of Naples, the carabinieri found their culprit right at home in Porto d'Ascoli. He was Fabbio Lanciotti, owner of a large winery and one of the defendants in the wine trial. Lanciotti had been able to make off with Exhibit A against him because the police had had the lack of foresight to store the impounded wine in Lanciotti's own wine cellar (the biggest in town). While free on bail, Lanciotti had been given permission to go on producing wine and had quietly siphoned...
...novelist, Grubb has written about Appalachian violence before. The Night of the Hunter (1954), his first book, is a shadowy work about a murderous preacher who chases a couple of kids up and down the Ohio River. The Voices of Glory (1962), a moody, backward-looking novel, has its share of crazy thunderation. They offer some clue as to why the "muttering meanness" guff in this book turns out to be more than just a touch overwritten...