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September 26, 2014 (September 23, 2014)

For the love of wicked Feleena

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There is a possibly apocryphal story about Loretta Lynn’s classic “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Supposedly, Lynn’s original version of the song included ten (or eight or twelve) verses. Hearing it, her […]

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August 26, 2014 (August 26, 2014)

Happy Women’s Equality Day

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Today, the enlightened everywhere celebrate Women’s Equality Day, commemorating not only the Nineteenth Amendment giving half of American humanity the right to vote outside of Wyoming, but recognizing all of […]

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August 22, 2014 (August 22, 2014)

Happy Birthday to video and film innovator C. Francis Jenkins

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Born on August 22, 1867, inventor C. Francis Jenkins was an innovator of early film and television technology. One of Jenkins’s inventions, the Phantoscope projector, led to today’s large-screen movies. However, […]

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August 22, 2014 (August 22, 2014)

Ray Bradbury and the Twilight Zone

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Ray Bradbury had made his name fusing science fiction with an abiding concern for humanity. What he had done in print, Rod Serling brought to early television. The anthology series The […]

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August 14, 2014 (August 14, 2014)

Q&A with Locomotive to Aeromotive author Simine Short

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Simine Short is an aviation historian who has researched and written extensively on the history of motorless flight. Her first book, Glider Mail: An Aerophilatelic Handbook, received numerous research awards worldwide and is […]

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August 11, 2014 (August 11, 2014)

New in paperback: a pioneer, a president and a King

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Three UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution Earth, water, air—Octave Chanute grappled with the very elements themselves. He built the massive […]

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August 5, 2014 (August 11, 2014)

The Other Hawthorne’s Weird Tales

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Julian Hawthorne hustled. An independent contractor par excellence, the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne reported on foreign wars and domestic politics, published novels, penned short stories, dreamt up theosophist blarney, raked […]

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July 29, 2014 (July 28, 2014)

Illegal author José Ángel N.’s open letter to President Obama

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José Ángel N. is an undocumented immigrant who lives in Chicago. In his memoir Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, José Ángel writes of his own journey from Mexico to […]

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July 25, 2014 (July 25, 2014)

Sci Fi Friday: Ray Bradbury makes an impact on the Moon

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On July 26, 1971 the Apollo 15 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore Earth’s moon. Four days later, on July 30, 1971 Lunar Module […]

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June 27, 2014 (June 26, 2014)

Sci Fi Friday: meet Gregory Benford

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The Modern Masters of Science Fiction series is devoted to books that survey the work of individual authors who continue to inspire and advance science fiction. Kurt Vonnegut once wrote […]

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June 20, 2014 (June 19, 2014)

Sci Fi Friday: meet John Brunner

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The Modern Masters of Science Fiction series is devoted to books that survey the work of individual authors who continue to inspire and advance science fiction. Under his own name and […]

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June 6, 2014 (June 5, 2014)

Return of the kind mother

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The pre-restoration Alma Mater. Today the famed statue makes its long-awaited return to the University of Illinois campus after a ten-month restoration treatment. Though completed in 1929, the Alma Mater […]

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