The French-born English writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc (1870-1953) was a noted poet, historian, essayist, and novelist. Throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social...
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Hilaire Belloc 's literary reputation is currently in decline. Yet during his lifetime, he achieved great acclaim for his writings in a wide variety of genres. His contemporary fame was linked to that...
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In his time Hilaire Belloc enjoyed the same popularity with readers as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and G. K. Chesterton. He wrote poetry, fiction, history, travel pieces, and works on topogr...
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Hilaire Belloc was born in the middle of a thunderstorm, and it is hard for anyone writing about him now to resist observing how apt was this scene, since thunderclouds of controversy, often of his ow...
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Hilaire Belloc is chiefly remembered for his controversial political opinions, often belligerent character, and strong allegiance to the Catholic Church. His deep feelings about the important politica...
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For most of her life, Yvonne Alameddine could turn to her younger brother for advice. Suddenly she's struggling with being an only child.Before a crowd of 400 mourners at St. Mary of the Annunciati...
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An administrative judge has denied unemployment benefits to a woman who was fired from her job for keeping a journal detailing her efforts to avoid work.Emmalee Bauer, 25, of Elkhart, was employed ...
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Snoop Dogg was held by police overnight on suspicion of using illegal narcotics but was released after questioning and drug tests, a police spokesman said Monday.The artist was heading to a party a...
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Hugo Chavez has called President Bush a devil, a donkey and a drunkard. But on Wednesday the Venezuelan leader said his comments were "nothing personal."Chavez, who had stepped up his verbal assaul...
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A Kansas prison escapee was executed Wednesday for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy who was trying to pull him over for stealing $22.50 worth of gasoline from a service station.Charles Edward Sm...
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Washington (dpa) - What's better than Google for mining
information on the internet? How about a web site that gives you
Google and almost a dozen other popular search engin...
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Sarajevo/Banja Luka (dpa) - Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad
Dodik said Monday in Banja Luka he would insist on a new constitution
for Bosnia-Herzegovina if the internati...
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Since leaving the trucker hat behind _ and marrying Demi Moore _ Ashton Kutcher's fashion sense has taken a turn for the better.Kutcher, the face of 2003's trucker hat fad, dispenses sartorial tips...
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"I said, `It's not the right bra, it's not the right bra.' The sad part was there was a mirror there, so I had to see my face turn to stone, snakes coming out of my hair. It was bad." _ Kate Walsh,...
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New York (dpa) - As they edge towards a potential crowd-pleasing
semi-final sister showdown at the US Open, Venus and Serena Williams
are keeping their minds fresh and unclu...
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