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...Taunton, England. Waugh published the first of his five novels, The Foxglove Saga, in 1960, but won greater fame from his journalistic career, becoming renowned for the comic vitriol of the columns he wrote for a diverse range of publications, ranging from the up-market daily The Daily Telegraph to the satirical magazine Private Eye. Forecasting his imminent demise in an interview in November, Waugh said: "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore...
...TELEGRAPH Was It Morse or Cooke and Wheatstone...
...three. Numerous inventors often work on the same idea at the same time, and different nations therefore claim credit for being first. In 1837, Britain's Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke patented a five-needle telegraph. That same year, the American Samuel F.B. Morse created a telegraph that used a single key to transmit signals. Soon afterward he developed Morse code, a telegraph language made up of dots and dashes that became the standard...
...that soul has the face of Abraham Lincoln. The President stalked the building during the Civil War, often feeling like a prisoner of the war. His speeches and declarations were the glue for the riven nation. And with armies clashing nearby, and with the news updated hourly by telegraph, the White House became the national nerve center...
...election campaign of 1884 - Grover Cleveland v. James G. Blaine. Cleveland, the hardworking and honest and extremely fat governor of New York, gave a speech on July 10 declaring his high-minded campaign theme: "Public Office Is a Public Trust." The trouble began 11 days later. The Buffalo Telegraph ran a story headlined...