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Frédéric Dard wrote 175 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold. [citation needed] Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier.
The first Mulligan's was established on Thomas Street, Dublin in 1782. [2] The Mulligan family moved their business to several different premises, before leasing the present building in 1854 at 8/9 Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2. [1] Mick Smyth bought the pub from John Mulligan in 1932.
McKinney was an author in many genres, including horror, ghost stories, virus thrillers, crime and science fiction.Over his career, he wrote thirteen novels, developed two collections of short stories, created a tale for a comic book, and was both published in and edited numerous anthologies.
The Central Library is a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2), six-story structure that opened in 1995 in Downtown San Antonio. [2] It is easily recognized by its bright-colored, striking "Mexican Modernist" design. The primary color of the building's exterior is popularly referred to by San Antonians as "Enchilada Red." [3]
Edith Pretty and her husband bought a house at Sutton Hoo, the estate of which contained several large mounds of earth. For years, there had been theories about what might lie beneath — buried ...
Saturday Review, [1] previously The Saturday Review of Literature, [2] was an American weekly magazine established in 1924. Norman Cousins was the editor from 1940 to 1971. [3] Under Cousins, it was described as "a compendium of reportage, essays and criticism about current events, education, science, travel, the arts and other topics." [1]
The John Peace Library was designed by San Antonio architect O'Neil Ford, whose work also included the Trinity University (Texas) campus and the Tower of the Americas. When it opened, the library was the largest building on UTSA's campus. At the time it housed 350,000 volumes (200,000 of them on microfilm) and study spaces for about 1,300 students.
In the late 1960s Kimball (with John Fowler—whose Abington Book Shop [1] [2] was right next to (east of) the Gaslight Tavern on Oread in Lawrence, KS—and Charles Plymell) [3] [4] was an editor for the influential Midwestern magazine Grist before moving to New York, where he was heavily involved in the literary scene revolving around the Poetry Project at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie and the ...