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Doria Ragland was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to nurse Jeanette Arnold (1929–2000) and her second husband Alvin Azell Ragland (1929–2011), [3] an antiques dealer who sold items at flea markets. [4] Ragland's maternal grandparents, James and Nettie Arnold, respectively worked as a bellhop and an elevator operator at the Hotel St. Regis on ...
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
The American Book Review was founded in 1977 by Ronald Sukenick. [6] According to the novelist Raymond Federman, in his series reading with American Book Review in 2007, Sukenick founded the American Book Review because The New York Times had stopped reviewing books by "that group labeled experimental writers", and Sukenick wanted to start a "journal where we can review books that everyone is ...
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From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little ...
And as I was going to the door, I looked back at her and all she did was nod.” Days later, in the early morning on April 6, 1999, Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies knocked on the front door.
Doria Shafik was born on 14 December 1908 to Ahmad Chafik and Ratiba Nassif in Tanta, Egypt. [2] [3]: 3 She studied in a French mission primary school in Tanta and a Tanta secondary school for girls until 16 years. Then she studied the last 2 years of secondary education called bacaloria in Cairo.
Many correction girls were sickly and malnourished; some had venereal diseases and others were dangerous criminals. [2] [4] Settlement administrators complained of women "who are useless and who do nothing but cause disorder". [1]: 50 A letter from a settlement administrator in 1721 stated: [3] Eighty-eight girls arrived by La Baleine. Since ...