![]() ![]() The Civil War in Missouri, Day by Day, 1861 to 1865 When the conflict began, families, friends, and neighbors frequently found themselves on opposite sides. Missourians had strong loyalties to both the North and the South. As a border state and a slave state surrounded by free neighbors, Missouri became one of the most hotly contested regions in the country. In Missouri, due in part to the famous "compromise" that bore the state's name, those issues reached the boiling point during the 1850s. The disagreements over states' rights and slavery gradually sharpened across the nation before the Civil War. ![]() The Civil War's First Blood: Missouri, 1854-1861 Robert Frizzell discusses Civil War-era conflicts near Concordia, MO, AugNonfiction ![]()
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Inspired by an incident that unfolded in St. The cause of death was multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, she said. ![]() He was 89.īlatty died Thursday at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where he lived, his widow, Julie Alicia Blatty, told The Associated Press. NEW YORK - Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the bestselling novel and Oscar-winning movie "The Exorcist," has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although it looked like a real story, it was completely ficticious, created entirely from Poe's imagination. ![]() This story appeared in the New York Sun in 1844 and claimed to have details about a group of men that successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a new type of balloon. The Balloon Hoax Newspaper story about balloon travel When reading the broken dialog in this story, it helps if you pretend to read it like a drunk person. 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Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. ![]() Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONīy National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gordon Cooper is waking up with a busted hand amid the shards of a whisky tumbler after the funeral of a friend, with whom he was Topgunning. We first meet them as individuals who have no idea how their destinies are being shaped by a couple of guys poring over eight sheets of potential candidates for an era-defining job. One of them will become the first American in space. He takes delivery of a list of 110 of the best of the best of the best, most manly of manly men from the armed forces, from which he will choose the seven to be trained as – and who will come to define the image of – astronauts for Project Mercury. We meet the head of the Space Task Group, Bob Gilruth (played by Patrick Fischler, the actor for all your buttoned-up-but-charismatic-leaders-of-a-certain-age-who-still-need-to-look-good-in-uniform needs, who is searching down the backs of sofas for funding at Edwards Air Force Base and hoping that the Russians won’t colonise Mars before the US has a chance to put a cardboard rocket or two in the air. ![]() We are two years into the space race sparked by the Soviet successes with Sputniks 1 and 2, the US president has promised to put a man in space before the end of the decade and Nasa is freaking out at its chances. After a brief scene establishing established hostilities between Glenn (Patrick J Adams) and fellow Mercurial Sevener Alan Shepard (Jake McDorman) over breakfast on the day of the first Mercury launch in May 1961, we flash back to 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be" as Guralnick points out, Phillips succeeded in giving each of his musicians the freedom to express themselves fully on records that changed the musical landscape forever. Phillips's message from the start was "the inherent nobility not so much of man as of freedom, and the implied responsibility. ![]() Drawing on extensive interviews from his 25-year friendship with Phillips, as well as on interviews with many of the musicians Phillips produced (Howlin' Wolf and Ike Turner among others), Guralnick energetically tells the must-read tale of a Southern boy intent on enacting his vision of freedom and justice through music. Peter Guralnick is a commanding figure in music biography his lives of Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Sam Phillips are, as the Michelin guides used to say, worth the journey. his production of the jam session with Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley, later released as the Million Dollar Quartet tapes and his tireless work ethic Guralnick portrays a man deeply passionate about giving black musicians opportunities to share their music and voices in a South that seldom allowed them to do so. While he builds the story on the skeleton of the facts of Phillips's life his birth outside of Florence, Ala. Acclaimed music historian Guralnick has written landmark accounts of Elvis (Last Train to Memphis), Sam Cooke (Dream Boogie), and the history of American roots music (Lost Highway), and he now turns his considerable skills to the life of Sun Records producer Sam Phillips in this delightful and comprehensive volume. ![]() ![]() Stargate has the benefit of being “much younger” than either of those giant IPs. If you want to see what we mean, check out our Star Trek streaming guide, or watch all the Star Wars movies in chronological order and compare them to Stargate and you'll see what we mean. Same goes for Picard, the other ongoing Star Trek live-action series – it’s a big, dramatic story which cannot escape already established rules and events. Yes, The Mandalorian has a big serial sensibility, and Star Trek: Discovery often delivers nice “problem/adventure of the week” episodes, but they’re very much tied to their respective grand mythologies. Well, for starters, both Star Wars and Star Trek (despite their abundant differences) appear to be mainly concerned with overarching stories and interconnectivity at the time of writing. ![]() ![]() What could Stargate bring to the table that Star Wars and Star Trek aren’t already doing? The current streaming landscape is harsh and ruthless – everyone wants a piece of that cake, but success ain’t happening overnight, and huge, strategic investments have to be made. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Working as an engineer and a part-time teacher aboard the farming ship, Stella is running out of options. Living on a massive spaceship freighter orbiting Earth as the surviving population waits out a cataclysmic ice age, seventeen-year-old Stella is desperate to better her situation. Brightly Burning is a YA SciFi fantasy with a nod to the Regency classic. So when I found out that Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne is a reimagining of Jane Eyre set in space, I was all in. ![]() What can I say? I like a creeper in my attic. Don’t get me wrong I love Pride & Prejudice, but the Bronte sisters make my top ten all-time favorite books. When it comes to Victorian Lit, I tend to like mine dark like my chocolate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Though definitely an underachiever when it comes to merit badges, Hilda’s broad curiosity and willingness to stand up for the undergnome will make her a winner in most readers’ eyes." Hilda’s dilemmas, while fantastic, also feel real Pearson has found a lovely new way to dramatize childhood demons, while also making you long for your own cruise down the fjords." ![]() "Pearson’s utter lack of pretension keeps Hilda feeling fresh, while his reading of folktales and Tove Jansson’s Moomin series embeds Hilda in the long history of children’s stories. He is a real inspiration."Ī School Library Journal Top Graphic Novel of 2014Ī Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novel for Youth of 2014Ī Texas Library Association Little Mavericks Nominee for 2015 ![]() "In Hilda, Luke Pearson has created a truly odd and amazingly beautiful world-Stunningly personal and original. "Luke Pearson's Hilda stories are beloved in our house, and they will surely be enjoyed by audiences for many years to come." John Stanley's Little Lulu meets Miyazaki." "Luke Pearson is one of the best cartoonists working today. Hilda is now on Netflix! Season 2 coming soon! Hilda and the Black Hound: Book 4 (Hildafolk) ![]() |