#dumas

I recall mentioning that Willow is about 17 when we begin this escape, but never tells her age, feeling much older than she is. Anna, as we all know, is 15 at the moment of escape from the White House. My Query information includes the pitch line and the audience: PASSING TO FREEDOM: WILLOW AND WEEMS, is a 79,000 word YA historical suspense Lgbt novel. This daring journey of escape from powerful…

I’m slogging through the annoying beginning of Georges, by Alexandre Dumas père, while I find bits and pieces of the dissertation and Viva Voc defense of Dr. Anna J. Cooper. Recalling a bit of my review of her book, pub. 1892, A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. BY A BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH, I noted, I think, that there were also a few ideas in her book, as well as the obviously problematic ideas in that of…

. A lire… Or not. I did read the previous book in this series, La Reine Margot, and I’m sorry, that one was so difficult to keep going with, because I just did not find it interesting, that I could not be bothered to try reading this one. I recommend reading his Histoire d’un Casse-Noisette, and Medecin de Java. Ni, pour le Project Do Better by ShiraDest Publications Fund managed by the Greater…

La entidad sindical de municipales STMVL recordó a Vito Dumas –viajero incansable por los mares del mundo- que falleció en Vicente López en 1965. En la región no hay municipio que no tenga una calle, un pasaje o un club barrial, con su nombre. La ruta del Paseo de la Costa de Vicente López, entre Laprida e H. Yrigoyen lo recuerda también. En 1942, con su embarcación Lehg II –construido en un…

“Les Anglais ont tout vendu, même Dieu !/The English have sold everything, even God!” Dumas describes the history of the run up to the Greek war of independence from the Ottoman empire through the point of view of the personal history of this hated historical figure. When my Greek friends lamented having been slaves to the Ottoman empire for four hundred years, what they were really referring to…