What cannot be argued is the high value Paterno placed on education and a well-read life. The Paterno Library and the Paterno Family Endowed Professorship in Literature serve as testimony to the family’s generosity and, perhaps more importantly, to their

Pitcairn Island is an isolated and remote place in the South Pacific. In 1789 it was also uninhabited. That made it an ideal home for the Bounty mutineers. Lying midway between New Zealand and South America, Pitcairn Island has a fame that belies its sma

David Essex was born David Albert Cook in Plaistow, an only son. His father was an East End dock worker and his mother, a self-taught pianist and the daughter of Irish tinkers, worked as a cleaner in the local pub. Essex was two-years-old when his parent

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ON summer evenings in the 1980s, in the garden of our home in London, my little brother and I would scale the stern of the H.M.S. Bounty. We would hoist ourselves up her sides and climb her invisible rigging. From high in the crow's nest we could see Tah

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