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May 11, 2008

gleans at 2:00 AM MT, 5/11

 

Gainsborough's The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly Oh, do grow up ...
Anthony Fletcher's Growing up in England fails to question why boys and girls were pushed to extremes for so long, says Hilary Spurling

 

Scene from new Red Baron film 
The Chivalrous image of the German First World War flying ace the Red Baron is shattered by a biography to be published in Britain.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Postcards dug from the bottom of a box have given one Oxford librarian tantalising insights into the poet’s work
 
 
 
1950s kissing picture
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach The Sunday Times review by Matt Rudd: stories of scientific endeavour that will make you blush
 
 
 
A portrait of diamond king Cecil John Rhodes
The Sunday Times review by Jacob Weisberg: one Rhodes scholarship alumnus on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes's educational bequest
 
 
 
NORAD marks 50 years with wary eye on sky <== recommended
Colorado Springs Gazette - BY PAM ZUBECK Suburbanites built concrete bomb shelters stocked with canned food in which they could wait out Armageddon. That was the atmosphere of fear bred by the specter of mutual destruction in which the North American Aerospace Defense Command ...
NORAD has stirred imagination of filmmakers, children Colorado Springs Gazette
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