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• 1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  On this date in 1823, French physician Edme Castaing expiated upon the scaffold history’s first conviction for murder with morphine. The good doc used the drug , a new twist on an ancient remedy only recently brought to market, apparently to poison off one of two wealthy brothers with the connivance of the ...
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• Fog Produced the Compass

  
  Two Kinds of People — Authority: 99
  There are two kinds of people in the world: those who have a good sense of direction and those who dont. In 1993, technology gifted the directionally impaired with the 24th Navistar Satellite, completing the network now known as the Global Positioning System , or GPS. My girlfriend calls her GPS "Jill" and ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Have Wings

  
  Beautiful Summer Morning — Authority: 116
  Sometimes you just have to trust, just let go and let the words flow out. As a writer my struggle is always to let what’s inside out. As with most writers, I think, I tend to get in the way, analyzing  , judging, revising and editing.(notice I didn’t say proof reading) until the words [...]
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Habit: Politics

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 137
  Sarkozy Burying Camus http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091124/wl_time/08599194239200    
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• Sarkozy’s Bid to Move Camus’ Ashes Stirs Controversy

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  A French writer could do a lot worse than be buried alongside the likes of Émile Zola, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo, but some compatriots of philosopher Albert Camus, as well as his son, Jean, are none too pleased with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to relocate Camus’ ashes to the celebrated ...
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• Travel Lust Started with Jules Verne

  
  A Traveler's Library — Authority: 421
  Destination: The World Books: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck A GUEST ...
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• comma,

  
  movement, movement — Authority: 99
  Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the world is never a more magnificent mystery than when, within a man, it travels from his thoughts to his conscience and returns… we exclaim within ourselves, without breaking the external silence. ...
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