After yesterday’s mugginess I thought that just maybe the first day of summer would actually feel like summer, but instead we woke up to grey skies, rain, and cold, gusty wind. It feels like October and it’s not supposed to get better any time soon. Gah. I’ve spent most of today in our big fat armch ...
Back in 2004, Jason Priestly starred in Sleep Murder, a made-for-TV movie set in Iqaluit. I remember enjoying it, but it may have had a lot to do with the setting. The movie was about an Inuk man accused of murder. Jason Priestly plays a lawyer from the south, making the case that the accused was sl ...
Charles Brockden Brown Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was youngest born son of a Philadelphia Quaker merchant family. He studied at the Philadelphia Friends Latin School from the age of eleven onwards. At the age of fifteen, the young Brown founded the Belles Lettres Club with eight of his male ...
No ano em que passam duzentos anos sobre o nascimento do genial Edgar Allan Poe, aqui fica o registo daquele que foi o primeiro escritor profissional norte-americano e um dos autores seminais daquele país, juntamente com Washigton Irving, de quem hei-de aqui falar. Para já, aqui fica um texto sobre ...
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