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Dukes by Robert Newton Peck

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Author Biography

Name: Robert Newton Peck
Birth Date: February 17, 1928
Place of Birth: Vermont, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Robert Newton Peck
4708 words, approx. 15.7 pages
Robert Newton Peck's first book, A Day No Pigs Would Die, won several book awards and secured its author a long career in young-adult fiction. This 1972 debut and Peck's subsequent works portray a rural America in which hard work, self-sufficiency, and t...
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Biography of Robert Newton Peck
4085 words, approx. 13.6 pages
"I am tall, and awkward, and [a] stubborn Vermonter who wears mule-ear boots, a ten-gallon hat and what I like to think of as a country-boy grin. "My favorite sport is curling; I play piano honky-tonk style; I'm a rotten dancer and I'm allergic to Englis...
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Biography of Robert Newton Peck
1786 words, approx. 6 pages
Robert Peck (born 1928) won critical and popular acclaim for his first novel, A Day No Pigs Would Die (1973). Critics lauded its unsentimental rendering of farm life and the often brutal realities of the natural world, and the book is now a frequently st...


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Dukes Information
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Dukes may refer to: Dukes (band), a rock group from New Zealand The Dukes of Stratosphear, a pseudonym used by the British rock band XTC Albuquerque Dukes, a former Triple A Baseball team The Dukes of Hazzard, an American television series which ran...


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Duke lacrosse timeline
4/11/2007: 422 words, approx. 1 pages
A chronology of events in the Duke lacrosse case:March 13, 2006 _ Duke University lacrosse players throw a party at an off-campus house, hiring two strippers.March 14 _ One of the dancers tells Durham, N.C., police she was forced into a bathroom by three men...
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Dukes snaps losing streak
9/16/2007: 469 words, approx. 2 pages
Duke snapped the longest losing streak in the country at 22 games, beating Northwestern 20-14 Saturday night.Thaddeus Lewis threw for 246 yards and three touchdowns for the Blue Devils, whose last win came on Sept. 17, 2005 against Virginia Military Institute. Duke (1-2) hadn't defeated...
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Duke lacrosse hearing postponed
1/30/2007: 333 words, approx. 1 pages
A critical hearing in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case has been postponed until May as the new prosecutors continue to study evidence.Prosecutors from the state attorney general's office met with defense attorneys and the judge for about two hours Tuesday. It was the first...
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Duke still perfect at Maui Invitational
11/20/2007: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
Freshman forward Kyle Singler had 21 points and 12 rebounds and No. 13 Duke kept its perfect record on Maui intact with an 83-61 victory over Princeton on Monday night in the opening round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.Duke, which won the title here...
 


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