Frank Lloyd Wright is a titan of American architecture, but he was grievously wounded, at least, psychologically, by a tragedy that occurred when he was in his forties.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In 2008, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan were kidnapped in Somalia, by Islamist insurgents. They were held hostage for 460 days. Escape became the focus of their being.
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Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.
Stephen Marglin is a professor of economics at Harvard and the author of "The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community."
Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club." She talks with Anne Strainchamps.
The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.
Ruth Leitman directed a documentary film called “Lipstick and Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling,” about the first female professional wrestlers.
Walter Moskowitz is a tattoo legend. Before he passed away in 2007, he ran the first commercial tattoo parlor on Long Island.
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