Chapter I
The Germans In Brussels
When, on August 4, the Lusitania, with lights doused
and air-ports sealed, slipped out of New York harbor
the crime of the century was only a few days old.
And ...
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The American journalist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was also a fiction writer and dramatist whose swashbuckling adventures were popular with the American public.Richard Harding Davis was born in...
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Richard Harding Davis is principally remembered as a popular romancer of the 1890s and early 1900s. The bulk of his writing was designed to please and titillate the popular readership, and, until his ...
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Richard Harding Davis was one of the most colorful, daring, and attractive figures in journalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s; he was also highly competent, honest, and dependable. Because of his...
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Richard Harding Davis once said that "There is no training for a novelist as thorough as that received in the local room of a daily newspaper." Davis served just such an apprenticeship at newspapers i...
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Richard Harding Davis, managing editor of Harper's Weekly from 1890 to 1893 and for all his writing career a steady contributor to the evolving literature of the American magazine, was the first nativ...
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Richard Harding Davis may be better remembered in late-twentieth-century America for being the son of novelist Rebecca Harding Davis than he is for his own literary accomplishments. In late-nineteenth...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The opposition leader who
leads in polls ahead of Australia's Nov. 24 election has vowed
to pull some troops from Iraq, but experts predict few other
changes in relations if...
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Hit by the loss of another diplomatic link, Taiwan's president said Monday that he will try to hold on to remaining allies by encouraging them to open formal trade ties with China while maintaining...
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Bucharest (dpa)- Romania's Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu
on Sunday announced a minority government comprising his National
Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Un...
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Australia's conservative prime minister slammed Barack Obama on Sunday over his opposition to the Iraq war, a day after the first-term U.S. senator announced his intention to run for the White Hous...
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A longtime leader of Myanmar's largest guerrilla group died early Sunday, a spokesman for the Karen National Union said.Bo Mya, 79, who most recently held the title of defense minister in the rebel...
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Today is Monday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2007. There are 119 days left in the year. This is Labor Day.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris between the United States ...
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Bucharest (dpa)- Romania's Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu
on Sunday announced a minority government comprising his National
Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Un...
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela could expel a U.S.
diplomat it suspects of interfering in its internal affairs by
working against President Hugo Chavez's plan to run for
reelection indefinitely, a s...
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NATO on Wednesday urged Canada not to pull its troops from Afghanistan's dangerous Kandahar region and pledged to help find the 1,000 additional allied troops Ottawa is demanding.Canadian Prime Min...
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With the Allies
Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis
Australia vote unlikely to alter ties with ally US
