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No tax hike is seen for Jackson Twp.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:08:13 GMT

JACKSON TWP. – No increase in the millage rate is predicted for the township’s proposed 2010 budget. Township Board Chairman John Wilkes Jr. said the proposed budget is estimated to keep the current millage of .6643.
Source: Wilkes-Barre Weekender

Quoted in 'Historian Finds John Brown’s Link To Vermont'

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:50:55 GMT

said in VPR | Vermont Public Radio:

And someone who was able to work his way into the Richmond Militia was a very well known thespian by the name of John Wilkes Booth.

White House Security Breach Endangers the President

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:53:44 GMT

After the Secret Service let uninvited guests into the White House State Dinner without any checking, a White House spokesman said President Obama has full confidence in the Secret Service.
Source: NewsMax

Here Is Where — Augmented reality, analog-style

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:32 GMT

Sam Roberts, in a June 30, 2009 New York Times article, wrote about amateur historian Andrew Carroll's ongoing 50-state journey to locate events heretofore lost in time and space.
Source: bookofjoe

The Discerning Doctor

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:44 GMT

"To stand naked on the stage is an outward manifestation of what we do in the best performances," asserts Michael Cerveris, who is literally naked at one point in Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room or the vibrator play," a Lincoln Center Theater production...
Source: Backstage

Revolutionary Rediscovered

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:14:22 GMT

Legal eagles: Garrow (Andrew Buchan) and his associate John Southouse (Alun Armstrong) The struggle for liberty in Britain has all but vanished from the national consciousness.
Source: Standpoint

New Justice League Animated Movie

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51:02 GMT

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths will be the 7th original animated movie to come to DVD, the first being Superman: Doomsday. Although this is the second Justice League animated movie it has no relationship to Justice League: A New Frontier.
Source: Associated Content

Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary) (Blu-ray)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:15:55 GMT

Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: Not Rated Starring: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara - His Wife...
Source: Comingsoon.net

Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 13

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:08:08 GMT

1906 Alla Nazimova makes her Broadway debut in the title role of Hedda Gabler at the Princess Theatre.
Source: Playbill

Quoted in 'For the Neighborhood'

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:17:04 GMT

said in The New Yorker:

Edwin Booth, brother of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes, lived at 16 Gramercy Park South

Clutch - I Have The Body Of John Wilkes Booth

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:35:52 GMT