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No one finds it interesting (well that’s obvious anyways because its channel 9 news), but you also just ruined weekends for all kids underage.” The following day, McCarren reported on a police raid of a December party in Bethesda, where about three...
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The 2001 death of his 31-year-old brother, guitarist Brooks Phillips, gave rise to the poignant "A Song Without Words" for cello and organ. Lyrics to his choral pieces come from scripture and the work of Walt Whitman and other poets. Founded in 1896,...
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HUNTINGTON, NY - OCTOBER 20: Atmosphere at Ready, Set, Pink! Event At Bloomingdale's Walt Whitman on October 20, 2011 in Huntington, New York. View Photo »
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The real war ... will never get in the books.
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This presentation focuses on two sites now functioning as living archives of Walt Whitman and his New York. The first is the house at 99 Ryerson Street in Brooklyn in which Whitman completed the first edition of Leaves of Grass, and the second is the...
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Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the Ben Franklin Bridge. The Delaware River Port Authority says vehicle traffic fell to an 11-year low last year on the four toll bridges it operates in South Jersey. Ridership on PATCO trains reached an 11-year high. ...
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Commemorating legendary poet and his soulmate Commemorating legendary poet and his soulmate Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle first met in Washington D. C. on horse-drawn streetcar number 14. It was a stormy winter night in 1865. Whitman, the passenger, was...
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HUNTINGTON, NY - OCTOBER 20: (L-R) Bloomingdale's staff Human Resorces Manager Christoper Hopewood, Store Manager Opperations Carin Harrison, Visual manager Michael Yenusonis, and VP General Manager for Huntington Marie Fristachi attend Ready, Set,... View Photo »
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We used to cross over the Walt Whitman Bridge and the entire bus would go quiet. That’s what it was like to play the Philadelphia Flyers. I can’t say it was always fun playing them.
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Remarks by the President at the 2011 National Medals of Arts and Humanities Ceremony
The White House
Equal to the impact you have on each of us every day as individuals is the impact you have on us as a society. And we are told we're divided as a people, and then suddenly the arts have this power to bring us together and speak to our common condition.
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Delaware starting near the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and heading south to a point below the Walt Whitman Bridge, Voigt said. That work is expected to go out to bid later this year. The $31 million, provided it remains in the Fiscal 2013 budget, will...
About Walt Whitman
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Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very... Full Article
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A photograph of Walt Whitman, left, appears to look at Kenneth Price, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, during a news conference at the National Archives in Washington, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to discuss the thousands of documents written by Whitman that Price uncovered at the National...
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With a photograph of Walt Whitman at left, Kenneth Price, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, speaks at the National Archives in Washington, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to discuss the thousands of documents written by Whitman that Price uncovered at the archives.
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Caroline Kennedy, right, presents Kevin Kay, a junior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md. , with the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award essay plaque for winning the contest at the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, Monday morning, May 23, 2011.
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HUNTINGTON, NY - OCTOBER 20: Atmosphere at Ready, Set, Pink! Event At Bloomingdale's Walt Whitman on October 20, 2011 in Huntington, New York.
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HUNTINGTON, NY - OCTOBER 20: (L-R) Bloomingdale's staff Human Resorces Manager Christoper Hopewood, Store Manager Opperations Carin Harrison, Visual manager Michael Yenusonis, and VP General Manager for Huntington Marie Fristachi attend Ready, Set, Pink! Event At Bloomingdale's Walt...
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Kenneth Price, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, stands by photographs of Walt Whitman as he talks about thousands of documents written by Whitman that Price uncovered, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at the National Archives in Washington. On the table is a book full of pages written...
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The U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle makes its way up Delaware River, in view of the Walt Whitman Bridge, Friday, March 18, 2011, in Philadelphia on the first stop of a world tour to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Scheduled tour stops will include London; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Hamburg,...
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A photograph of Walt Whitman, left, appears to look at Kenneth Price, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, during a news conference at the National Archives in Washington, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to discuss the thousands of documents written by Whitman that Price uncovered at the National...
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