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		<title>How Much Land Does a Man Need &#8211; Audio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is an audio recording of &#8220;How Much Land Does a Man Need.&#8221; The audio is provided by LibriVox and is in the public domain.
 Here the link the the text of the story.
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		<title>What is Literature?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My students might be surprised to know that using English literature as a focus of instruction is a relatively new concept. In England and America prior to the 20th century, literature classes were mostly about studying the  Bible or reading Latin and Greek texts. Believe it or not, it was India, under the British empire, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashiell Hammett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystery writer Dashiell Hammett was born on this day in 1894. The three film adaptations of his most famous story, The Maltese Falcon, became staples of the film noir genre. His romantic relationship with Lillian Hellman, a well-known playwright, inspired The Thin Man, a story featuring heroine Nora Charles. The film adaptation of this novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links to Mark Twain Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have requested links to the two Mark Twain stories we&#8217;ve been reading. Here they are, including the audio book files from LibriVox.
&#8220;The Boy&#8217;s Ambition&#8221; from Life on the Mississippi
Listen to the audio book:
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Listen to the audio book:
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		<title>Roller Pigeons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video]
Sometimes I&#8217;ll read something in the newspaper that&#8217;ll bring back memories of my own childhood, like the recent article in the LA Times about Bobby Wilson, a.k.a. Kill Kill, who has been a roller pigeon fancier since he was a little boy in the projects in Watts. He made some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Watergate Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I remember clearly the day Nixon resigned.
On this day in 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) office. They were later charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communications. On September 15, a grand jury indicted them and two other men (E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herbert von Karajan Centenary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor, one of the most renowned 20th century conductors. Karajan began his conducting career in 1927. After World War II his reputation spread through Europe to the United States. He toured with various orchestras (notably the Berlin Philharmonic) and participated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muddy Waters&#8217; Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muddy Waters was born on this day in 1915. He was an African-American blues singer and guitarist from Rolling Fork, Mississippi. His real name was McKinley Morganfield. As a teenager he began singing and playing traditional country blues on harmonica and guitar, and in 1941 he was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesse James Murdered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jesse James 1847-1882
Jesse James, 1847–82, an American outlaw, was murdered on this day in 1882 by the coward Robert Ford. James was born in Clay County, Missouri. At the age of 15 he joined the Confederate guerrilla band led by William Quantrill and participated in the brutal and bloody civil warfare in Kansas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eiffel Tower Finished in 1889</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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The Eiffel Tower, completed on March 31, 1889, is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The landmark is the tallest building [...]]]></description>
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