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The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum

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Name: Padraic Colum
Birth Date: 1881
Death Date: January 11, 1972
Place of Birth: County Longford, Ireland
Place of Death: Enfield, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, author, playwright

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Biography of Padraic Colum
603 words, approx. 2 pages
The Irish-American author Padraic Colum (1881-1972), best known for his poetry and plays, was active in the Irish Literary Revival. Padraic Colum was born in County Longford and as a youth met many who had lived through the Great Famine, which ravaged Ir...
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Biography of Padraic Colum
4111 words, approx. 13.7 pages
At one point during the discussion of Dublin's literary life that takes place in the National Library in the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode of Ulysses (1922), Stephen Dedalus overhears the following comment: "I liked Colum's Drover. Yes,I think he has th...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Golden Fleece Award Making a Comeback; Watchdog Group Revives Prize for Waste
07/05/2000: 534 words, approx. 2 pages
There was the $2 million patrol car, the $200,000 curriculum for watching television and the study of whether drunken fish are more aggressive than sober fish. There was the study of why people act rudely on Virginia tennis courts, the Medicaid payments to...
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The Washington Post
Mondale, Kennedy Honor a Colleague; Proxmire Gave the 'Golden Fleece' Awards
04/02/2006: 421 words, approx. 1 pages
Former vice president Walter F. Mondale and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) saluted the late Wisconsin senator William Proxmire yesterday as a tenacious worker and moral crusader. Proxmire, a Democrat best known for fighting government waste with his mocking "Golden Fleece" awards, died...
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greatreporter.com
Top 10 Greek Mythical Figures
10/5/2007: 516 words, approx. 2 pages
10: JasonJason was forced to embark on his famous quest for the Golden Fleece as a prerequisite for becoming the king of a Greek city. The Fleece was located in a region of the Black Sea, and Jason found it after an epic voyage on...
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Suzanne Pleshette dies in Los Angeles
1/20/2008: 642 words, approx. 2 pages
Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age 70.Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" and in Broadway plays including "The Miracle...
 


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