Boris Karloff Narrates Rip Van Winkle
Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
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Gold Makes a Near Clean Sweep
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler You'd have to be Rip Van Winkle to have missed the news of the fresh highs scored by gold recently. And just as Van Winkle is quintessentially American, for a long time, so too were gold's price records; gold measured in dollars scored 16 record-high days out of November's 18 trading sessions prior to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Complete...
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Gold Makes A Near Clean Sweep
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
You'd have to be Rip Van Winkle to have missed the news of the fresh highs scored by gold recently. And just as Van Winkle is quintessentially American, for a long time, so too were gold's price records; gold measured in dollars scored 16 record-high days out of November's 18 trading sessions prior to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. [More...]
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The waiting is the hardest part
Dorothy Surrenders (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... Three of my favorite new series this season are settling in for long winter’s naps. Like Rip Van Winkle-long naps. Think I’m kidding? Vampire Diaries Last 2009 episode: Nov. 19 First 2010 episode: Jan. 21 V Last 2009 episode: Nov. 24 First 2010 episode: March Glee Last 2009 episode: Dec. 9 First 2010 episode: April 13 WHAT THE HELL? That’s more than FOUR WHOLE MONTHS for...
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Quote: Is it racism for the Dutch to want their nation to stay Dutch?
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quote: Is it racism for the Dutch to want their nation to stay Dutch? Jim Prevor, at the Weekly Standard , discusses the national identity point . The larger question, though, is whether a nation is any more than a geographic entity. If some Parisian Rip Van Winkle wakes up one distant morning and finds himself in a nation that speaks Arabic, where the people are Muslim, food is by law halal...
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The Swiss Ban Minarets
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... question, though, is whether a nation is any more than a geographic entity. If some Parisian Rip Van Winkle wakes up one distant morning and finds himself in a nation that speaks Arabic, where the people are Muslim, food is by law halal and the government follows Sharia law. Is that fellow still, in any meaningful sense, in France? Is it simple racism for, say, the Dutch to want their nation...
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What's Modern About the Early Modern Period?
History News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
... but is perpetually renewed. The pace of change is now so fast that every morning I feel like Rip van Winkle, awakening in a barely recognizable world. In partial consequence, events of the Early Modern period now seem remote and disconnected from our own times by ruptures, convulsions, and chaos. Almost all the claims once made for the Renaissance and Reformation, for instance, have turned...
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Echoes in the Ear
The Diary Junction Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... Crayon. The latter contained stories that were to become famous: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. By the late 1820s, Irving had gained a reputation throughout Europe and the US as a great writer and thinker.After spending many years in Europe, he returned to New York in 1832, and established a home at Sunnyside in Tarrytown, a place which then many famous people visited over...
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Thanksgiving Eve Poem
Gaslamp Ball (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... We benefited from a bearded CEO and his mysterious ownership group Jeff Moorad is bearded but not Rip Van Winkle He brought us salvation inTom Garfinkel Thinking about it now we must say it was a great hire, Except for that part about him hating the Friar. The season was a tough for one tanned veteran We hope one day he hits more baseballs than women We traded a good pitcher while his fastball's...
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Deathly Hallows named top book of past decade
MuggleNet.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
As we move toward 2010, The Telegraph is taking a look back at the top 100 books of the past decade. Coming in at No. 1 is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . The entry reads: If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle or enormously stubborn. This is the seventh and final instalment in Rowling’s record-breaking series about Harry Potter, the...
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Across the Border
Gurney Journey (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... saw a guy two aisles over in the checkout line who looked just like one of Henry Hudson's crew in Rip Van Winkle . I started sketching him, and when he noticed, I just told him: "I'm sketching your picture." Later I caught up with him at the Lotto machine and showed him the sketch. His shoulders were covered with sawdust. He told me he is a logger, and we got talking about the...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Top Book of the Decade
The Leaky Cauldron (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
UK newspaper The Telegraph has compiled a series of lists of things that defined this decade. One such list involves the top 100 books , with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling taking the number one spot. Quotage: "If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle or enormously stubborn. This is the seventh and final instalment in Rowling’s...