Beaumont musician with record attached to space probe gets historical marker

Beaumont musician with record attached to space probe gets historical marker

The Port Arthur Historical Society and the Jefferson County Historical Commission are unveiling a Texas historical marker in honor of a late street musician.

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Final word on the year's best reading

A tale of love, murder, intrigue, and cultural identity, Mitchell takes the form of the historical novel and worries it like a chew-toy. Yet, rather than destroy the genre, he embellishes it, heaps poetry onto research, gazing with a precise and incisive eye back into the past. This is Nagasaki, the foreign outpost on the artificial island of Dejima, from where Dutch sailors and merchants trade ...

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Lifetime too short, a day will do

ROME -- Got 24 hours to explore Rome, the ancient city with a jaw-dropping list of historical sights that can overwhelm even the most experienced traveller? The Italian saying "Non basta una vita" -a lifetime is not enough to experience it -accurately captures the sensory overload Rome offers [...]

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