A dickens of a time with a 200th birthday
NEW YORK The visitors have been coming at a steady trickle, reverent, bemused, squinting at the crabbed handwriting in the anguished letters from his American tour ("They will never leave me alone ... I shake hands every day ... with five or six hundred people"), the missives on mesmerism, philanthropy, storytelling, Christmas books and his own manic energy.
Charles Dickens' 200th anniversary celebrations: a renaissance or an elegy?
The visitors have been coming at a steady trickle, reverent, bemused, squinting at the crabbed handwriting in the anguished letters from his American tour ("They will never leave me alone ... I shake hands every day ... with five or six hundred people"), the missives on mesmerism, philanthropy, storytelling, Christmas books and his own manic energy.
What the Chinese New Year means for local Nanjingese
"You must be so homesick! Aren't you going home to celebrate chunjie?" asked the Auntie who sells tofu on the back of a freight tricycle in the old city of Nanjing.
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American cats in the sack lure in hoop fans
KLAIPEDA - When Lithuanians were crooning Christmas carols and enjoying the New Year frolicking, most of the 27 Lithuanian Basketball League (LBL) legionnaires (expat players), including the Americans, were huddled together in pairs or, like Paul Kendall Davis and Dane Johnson, players on Naglis, the LBL team from Palanga, spent the holidays alone crouching over the screens of their laptops.
Baltimore's success increases city's sales
BALTIMORE -- While it's no shock that retailers selling Baltimore Ravens apparel and merchandise are seeing soaring sales in the week leading up to the team's first home playoff game in five years, it may be surprising to know that even a local restaurant and bar supplies company is seeing increased business.
Salesforce's happy workforce
It took a Reuben sandwich and Dr. Brown's Cream Soda to close the deal. Nobody's as good at salesmanship in the world of high tech as Marc Benioff, the nimble and gregarious 6-foot-5, 290-pound co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.com. A few months ago, his burgeoning company -- the San Francisco-based powerhouse in cloud computing for businesses -- was looking to buy Rypple, a startup in Toronto ...
2011: The year that was here
Continuing a look back at the events that made headlines in DeWitt and South Arkansas County in 2011.
Franklin County Community Calendar of Events
Breakfast, Chambersburg High School Class of 1959, 8:30 a.m., Johnnie's Family Restaurant, 679 S. Main St.; Brenda Roof at 263-9441. Meeting, Chambersburg Rotary, 12:15 p.m., The Orchards, 1580 Orchard Drive.