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Kurt Vonnegut writes to his youngest daughter
Shaun Usher
May 14CommentShare
A lovely bright light went out for us
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May 12CommentShare
Dylan Thomas writes home from New York
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May 11Comment 1Share
Roald Dahl and the flatulent bruiser
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May 10CommentShare
I hate to do this, really I do, but quite a few people are misunderstanding today’s letter by Dian Fossey...
Shaun Usher
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In 1963, having learnt Swahili and studied primatology, thirty-one-year-old Dian Fossey left her home in Kentucky and travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, to b…
Shaun Usher
May 7CommentShare
And some letters to E.T.
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A red hot panegyric
Shaun Usher
May 4Comment 1Share
 In 1934, a New York copywriter by the name of Robert Pirosh quit his well-paid job and headed for Hollywood, determined to begin the career of his dre…
Shaun Usher
May 3Comment 1Share
On this day in 1975, the Vietnam War effectively came to a close...
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Apr 30CommentShare
In 1969, as his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, Michael Collins remained in Apollo 11’s command module, alone, o…
Shaun Usher
Apr 28Comment 2Share
Frederick Law Olmsted was born on this day in 1822...
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Apr 26CommentShare
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