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Google suit settled

Posted on October 29, 2008 (October 31, 2008) by michael
in publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports that a lawsuit pitting writers and publishers against Google has been settled. “Under the settlement, Google will pay the authors and publishers who have already sued […]

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Local school board bans “Kite Runner” for incoming sophomores

Posted on October 29, 2008 (October 29, 2008) by michael
in Getting to know Champaign-Urbana

The Kite Runner challenge has been decided. According to The News-Gazette, Champaign’s Unit 4 school board “reversed a committee recommendation Monday night and ruled that the novel The Kite Runner will no […]

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Recent awards

Posted on October 28, 2008 (October 28, 2008) by michael
in awards

Two University of Illinois Press authors have recently been honored for their work. Dr. Norman R. Shapiro’s translation of The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine has been awarded the […]

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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 28, 2008

Posted on October 28, 2008 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Place Names of Illinois

On November 3, 2008, we are publishing Place Names of Illinois by Edward Callary.  Every weekday since October 1 we have posted one of the book’s nearly 3,000 entries.  Today […]

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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 27, 2008

Posted on October 27, 2008 (October 30, 2008) by michael
in Illinois / regional, Place Names of Illinois

Nauvoo [nah VOO, naw VOO]. Hancock. City (1841, 1899) six miles south of Fort Madison, Iowa. The area around modern Nauvoo was known as Quashquema, named for a minor Sauk […]

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Salt Lake City – The Last Days

Posted on October 27, 2008 (October 27, 2008) by michael
in mormon, publishing, travel

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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 24, 2008

Posted on October 24, 2008 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Place Names of Illinois

Hoopeston [HUP stuhn]. Vermilion. City (1877). Modern Hoopeston is the result of an early 1870s merger of three communities: Hoopeston, laid out by Thomas Hoopes and Joseph Satterwhaite; North Hoopeston, […]

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Salt Lake City day 2

Posted on October 23, 2008 by michael
in travel

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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 23, 2008

Posted on October 23, 2008 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Place Names of Illinois

Coffee. Wabash. Precinct. Also Coffee Island and Coffee Creek. The traditional story is that a keelboat loaded with coffee was proceeding up the Wabash River and took shelter for the […]

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Salt Lake City

Posted on October 22, 2008 (October 22, 2008) by michael
in publishing, travel

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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 22, 2008

Posted on October 22, 2008 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Place Names of Illinois

Cairo. Alexander. City (1818, 1873). Chartered in 1818 as the City and Bank of Cairo by John G. Comegys, Shadrach Bond (the first governor of the state of Illinois and […]

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IN-N-OUT

Posted on October 21, 2008 by michael
in food, miscellaneous

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