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The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. [1] The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in ...
William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an American abolitionist, journalist, publisher, author, and civil servant of Boston, Massachusetts, who worked for the integration of schools and public facilities in the state. Writing for abolitionist newspapers The Liberator and The North Star, he helped publicize the anti-slavery ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Crossword grids such as those appearing in most North American newspapers and magazines consist mainly of solid regions of uninterrupted white squares, separated more sparsely by shaded squares. Every letter is "checked" (i.e., is part of both an "across" word and a "down" word) and usually each answer must contain at least three letters.
Paul Léautaud (1872–1956), French writer and author of Le Journal Littéraire; Jan LechoĊ (1899–1956), Polish critic and diplomat; James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English biographer, historian and secretary of National Trust Country House Committee; Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007), American author; Élisabeth Leseur (1866–1914), French ...
Half of this wordplay clue references Hope Solo, a longtime goalie for the U.S. women’s national soccer team who resettled in North Carolina after her playing career ended. STEPH 51D: N.B.A ...
non-fiction author The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition: Karoline Georges: 1970 novelist, poet De synthèse: Shree Ghatage: 1957 novelist, short story writer Awake When All the World Is Asleep: Camilla Gibb: 1968 novelist Sweetness in the Belly: John Murray Gibbon: 1875 1952 non ...
Remember the North Stars' last real hurrah in Minnesota, the unlikely 1991 run to the Stanley Cup final? Former St. Cloud Times writer Kevin Allenspach just released a book on the near-miracle season.