Isak Dinesen was the pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962). Her stories place her among Denmark's greatest authors.Isak Dinesen was born on April 17, 1885, the d...
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Karen Blixen is the most widely recognized figure in twentieth-century Danish letters, eliciting greater critical and popular attention than any other Danish writer of this century. The scholarly stud...
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A daring young matador made a triumphant return five years after quitting at the peak of his career, enduring a terrifying near-goring Sunday to win standing ovations, a rain of flowers and three t...
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Columns of yellow-brown smoke billowed from behind a mountain and flames shot from a high ridge before leaping toward us.This Greek village was in a ring of fire and so was I _ racing away from the...
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Recently my unattached friend Katie told me that she had taken a trip to Tiffany’s, solo, to try on diamond engagement rings. I shot her a look. “But they’re just so sparkly!̶...
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Forbes magazine is out with its annual report on the business of baseball and the big news isn't that the New York Yankees would have broken even last year if they didn't have to pay A-Rod's salary...
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Potsdam, Germany (dpa) - A major exhibition of figures and props
from the trilogy of Lord of the Rings movies is to open at a film
studio near Berlin on February 1, complete...
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What would you do if you found a ring on the street, an obviously expensive ring? After looking around to make sure you weren't on Candid Camera or America's Funniest Home Videos, would you give it...
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A diligent policeman used patience and a midwinter thaw to find an engagement ring lost in a snow bank on New Year's Eve. Now Green Bay police are hunting for the rightful owner.Lt. John Laux was m...
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A house painter accused of taking a $7,000 diamond engagement ring from the condo he was working at apparently swallowed the evidence during a break from questioning at the police station _ and it ...
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Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."Jackson, who directed "Rings," w...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After months of bitter
legal wrangling, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc have agreed to make two movies
based on the book "The Hobbit" by ...
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Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
Karen (Christentze Dinesen) Blixen
Spanish matador back in the ring
