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Dead Writer’s Club

Posted on January 15, 2014 by peter bell

“The meaning of life is that it stops.” – Franz Kafka To respectfully follow Kafka’s brevity, here is a list of the exit points, final resting places and grave markers of nary a scribe’s mortal coil.

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Eddie Cochran locations

Posted on December 29, 2013 by peter bell

Although he died in a car crash at the tender age of twenty-one, by that point Eddie Cochran had already made his mark on rock and roll. His persona was of an iconic 50s rocker: clean-cut, good-looking, and rebellious.  But his persona belied a deeper understanding of musical forms and styles.  His skill as a […]

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star wars locations

Posted on July 23, 2013 by peter bell

With the release of Episode 7 of the Star Wars franchise set to release in 2015, here’s a list of locations associated with Star Wars Episodes 1-6.

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ernest hemingway locations

Posted on July 16, 2013 by peter bell

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, IL on July 21, 1899.  The son of a physician (Clarence Edmonds Hemingway) and a musician (Grace Hall-Hemingway), Ernest spent the summers of his youth in northern Michigan where he learned to hunt and fish, as he began to develop a habit for writing stories.  Later in […]

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new space locations

Posted on May 29, 2013 by peter bell

The phrases “NewSpace” or “new space” are catch-all descriptors that refer to a set of ideas and a collection of companies that are revolutionizing the way humans view space travel by privatizing space exploration for entrepreneurial advancement. The proponents of NewSpace are as varied in their ability, intention, and methods as any other nascent industry, but […]

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