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The Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton on May 1, 1978. [1] It won the Newbery Medal recognizing the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature. [2] The Westin Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in ...
Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.
Jarndyce v Jarndyce concerns the fate of a large inheritance; due to the apparent existence of multiple wills and trusts deriving therefrom (with those containing multiple beneficiaries), the heir or heirs cannot be determined. The case has dragged on for many generations before the action of the novel, so that, by the end of the narrative when ...
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled an expanded 14-count indictment accusing former Google software engineer Linwei Ding of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets to benefit two Chinese ...
Jack London was born January 12, 1876. [10] His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones.
The Trumpet off Kraków in 1462, The Trumpeter of Krakow tells the fictional story of the family of Joseph Charnetski, [1] a Polish noble family from Kresy (modern day Ukraine), who fled to Kraków, Poland, in 1461 after their home is burned to the ground by the Cossack-Tatars of Bogdan Grozny, commonly known as "Peter of the Button Face" because of the button-shaped pockmark on his cheek.
He directed The Westing Game (1997) aka Get A Clue, made for Showtime and the Hallmark Channel. His 2003 film Fire Over Afghanistan was shot on a prosumer digital camera, the Sony PD-150, and was a precursor to the all digital world to come. He next directed Nightmare City (2007), then returned to digital filming on Twice As Dead (2009).
"A Son for a Son" is the second-season premiere episode of the fantasy drama television series House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. The episode was written by series co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal and directed by executive producer Alan Taylor. It first aired on HBO and Max on June 16, 2024.