Sep 25, 2009 -
I discovered my enjoyment with Dan Brown books in 2000 when while preparing for a trip to Rome I came across Angels & Demons (I was looking for location based fiction). I very much enjoyed the book the subsequent DaVinci Code and Deception Point and his previous novel Digital Fortress. So, I was excited for the release of The Lost Symbol.
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Oct 13, 2009 -
Dan Brown's New Book The Lost Symbol Sells In Record Numbers
I haven't read it, I'm waiting for the paperback.
Have you read it? And if so, is it any good?
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Sep 18, 2009 -
I found this article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6194031/The-Lost-Symbol-and-The-Da-Vinci-Code-author-Dan-Browns-20-worst-sentences.html. Pretty funny for grammar nerds like me. Enjoy!
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Sep 15, 2009 -
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/
Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes
By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM
Tom Brokaw.
With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.
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Aug 28, 2009 -
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has chosen to replace resigning Sen. Mel Martinez.The announcement came late this morning.
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Jun 04, 2009 -
Alabama
Alabama has been known as the “Yellowhammer State” since the Civil War. The yellowhammer nickname was applied to the Confederate soldiers from Alabama when a company of young cavalry soldiers from Huntsville, under the command of Rev. D.C.
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Apr 25, 2009 -
`Golden Girls' star Bea Arthur dies at 86
By LYNN ELBER – 50 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" and who won a Tony Award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday. She was 86.
Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said.
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Feb 01, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Barack Obama to dilute 'Buy American' plan after Europe threatens US with trade war
Barack Obama is expected to water down "Buy American" plans in his economic stimulus package after European diplomats privately threatened to launch a trade war in retaliation.
By Tim Shipman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in New York
Last Updated: 1:06PM GMT 01 Feb 2009
The White House has promised to review the protectionist proposals, passed last week by Democratic allies in the House of Representatives, which would ban the use of non-American steel in the $800 billion of construction projects.
Obama officials are under pressure from what European diplomats in Washington describe as a discreet but outspoken campaign of "quiet fury" from America's closest allies.
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Jan 29, 2009 -
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The New York Times
updated 4:19 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket.
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Jan 12, 2009 -
digitalspy.co.uk:
OMFG. Grab your popcorn, pull over your blanket and prepare to feel guilty - because the most indulgent show on TV is back for a second season. The last we saw of the Gossip Girl gang, Dan had split from Serena, Chuck had ditched Blair and a lovelorn Nate was heading off to his holiday home in the Hamptons.
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