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Born in a Cabin in Cuyahoga County: The Tragic Curtailed Presidency of James A. Garfield
That James Abram Garfield is one of America’s least remembered Presidents [i] is something to lament in the light of the fact that the 20th man to...
Miss Ann Watt: The Life and Music of Ann Watt, Canadian Soprano(1)
In generations past, it was apparently the tradition for the father of any given family to name one of his sons after himself, and so the Watt...
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An Ulster Saga or The Early Years of the Watt-McCrossan Dynasty
Introduction This story was initially drafted in late 2017. Three years in late August 2020, it was subject to further edits to produce the...
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Alfred de Musset and the Prophetic Significance of 1830s Paris(2)
From towards the end of the 1830s, Musset wrote increasingly little, as Karen L. Taylor confirms: ‘After 1838, Musset seemed to lose inspiration. He...
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Alfred de Musset and the Prophetic Significance of 1830s Paris(1)
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay came into the world in Paris on the 11th of December 1810, as an unusually sensitive infant of noble lineage,...
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