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  2. Patrimony: A True Story - Wikipedia

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    [6] In The New York Times Book Review, critic and future U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wrote, "In a cunningly straightforward way, Patrimony tells one of the central true stories many Americans share nowadays: the agonized, sometimes comic labor of a family and a dying parent who must deal with all the loyalties and grudges of their past ...

  3. Marriage in the works of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    For many women of the gentry, marriage was essential to secure financial stability. [note 2] Unmarried women, especially widows, faced a challenging reality. [9] Upon the death of their father, their resources were limited. They might find work as a governess or teacher if qualified, but these roles were often seen as subordinate and difficult ...

  4. The Portrait of a Lady - Wikipedia

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    The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, "affronting her destiny," [1] finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.

  5. No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.

  6. Pope Joan (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Pope Joan or Pope, a once popular Victorian family game, is an 18th-century English round game of cards for three to eight players derived from the French game of Matrimony and Comete [1] and ancestor to Spinado and the less elaborate Newmarket. [2] The game is related to the German Poch and French Nain Jaune.

  7. Marriage in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]

  8. Compton post office renamed for local Vietnam War hero who ...

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    The story of his valor spread widely a year after he was killed, when Anderson was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. That lead to tons of mail from people across the country who wanted to ...

  9. New documentary highlights Honor Flight's surprising outcomes

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    Nov. 11—FARGO — No doubt many of you know about Honor Flight. Some of you have flown on trips to Washington, D.C., as an honored veteran or with a loved one who is. Maybe you volunteered or ...