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The Next Page: The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 31 Jul 2016
Helen Beatrix Potter, whose 150th birthday we marked Thursday, will always be remembered first for her 23 beautifully illustrated “tales” for children, beginning with “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” in 1902. It is not an exaggeration to say that Potter’s work changed the direction of children’s literature forever ... ....

Harry Potter, his wife and three children have arrived in SA

Edit Business Day 31 Jul 2016
Tales of the reuse of Joburg’s modernist ......

Joel Fearon: GB bobsledder runs joint-third fastest 100m time by a Briton

Edit BBC News 31 Jul 2016
Joel Fearon (front left) was part of Britain's four-man bobsleigh team that came fifth in the 2014 Winter Olympics ... Fearon, who will not be at Rio 2016, was part of the four-man bobsleigh team that came fifth in the 2014 Winter Olympics ... next year's Athletics World Championships in London, but insisted the 2018 Winter Olympics remain his focus....

Sapochetti: Some remedies to prevent another Olympic debacle

Edit Boston Herald 31 Jul 2016
That was partly to blame for Boston losing its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics ... The Sochi Winter Games in 2014 landed Russia with a whopping $51 billion bill ... Three in the summer, three in the winter ... •  For the Winter Games, Calgary or Vancouver in Canada, Lillehammer, Norway and Beijing would all fill the bill ... Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Games so we can begin this new plan sooner rather than later....

Pups saved from dog meat festival coming to Toronto

Edit Toronto Sun 31 Jul 2016
The plan is to have 100 dogs come to Toronto in September, Aldworth said, adding an adoption process will happen in the fall ... Clare Forndran, the media director at Dog Tales, told the Sun they are committed to taking as many dogs as they can and providing them with a “safe and comfortable sanctuary.” ... Anyone interested in inquiring about the dog adoption can visit either the Dog Tales or HSI Canada websites....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ is now one movie, second film will get new name

Edit Celebrity Café 31 Jul 2016
Infinity War movie after originally announcing the film would be split in two parts ... The Winter Soldier and Captain America ... Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the writers of Winter Soldier and Civil War, will be writing the two upcoming Avengers movies....

Opponent series: No choirboys (VfB Stuttgart 1893 eV)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Jul 2016
The team had just lost their final home game before the winter break 1-3 to Eintracht Trier ... The disappointment of the day led to an idea, which has since become a tradition at the club, with fans gathering before the winter break on the pitch to sing Christmas carols....

#BernieOrBust Faces a Choice between Principles and Pragmatism

Edit WhoWhatWhy 31 Jul 2016
“Absolutely not,” said GG Winter, a retired electrician from Oakland, CA, who was protesting against the convention on Monday ... Winter told WhoWhatWhy she was unimpressed with any of the progressive tenets of the Democratic Party’s platform, especially the changes that were the result of negotiations between the Sanders and Clinton camps following the primaries....

Skydiver to jump from 25,000 feet without parachute or wingsuit

Edit Journal News 31 Jul 2016
Luke Aikins has been jumping out of airplanes for quite some time. In fact, he's dropped out of the sky more than 18,000 times and lived to tell the tale ... ....

Ted Kooser's 'American Life in Poetry' (July 31)

Edit Omaha World-Herald 31 Jul 2016
There are dozens of folk tales in which someone is sent on an errand and it gets derailed in one way or another. Here Alberto R�os, who lives in Arizona, gives us a fresh one from Sonora, from his book… ... ....

A true leader, Hillary clears a bar set high

Edit Las Vegas Sun 31 Jul 2016
I was wrong. Last week I quoted the great Charles Dickens from his “A Tale of Two Cities” when I wrote about the just-finished Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention, which has … ... ....

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: A lifeline for seniors

Edit Las Vegas Sun 31 Jul 2016
There are various ways to tell the tales of what Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada does for senior citizens through programs like Meals on Wheels and Senior Companion. For clients like Judith Cran and Carmen Roybal, these programs are vital to their quality of life... ....

The Most Startling Myth About Success

Edit Forbes 31 Jul 2016
When you’re a kid hearing the same message over and over, it has a way of becoming embedded in your psyche as fact – even if it’s a myth. Like the line in fairy tales. “And they all lived happily ever after…” Ah—the perfect ending. The riding off into the sunset moment before [...] ... ....
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