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On this day in Wikipedia: Monday, 7th August

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7th August 2022 🗓️ : Death - David McCullough David McCullough, American historian and author (b. 1933) "David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Born and raised in Pittsburgh,..."

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7th August 2018 🗓️ : Death - Stan Mikita Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (b. 1940) "Stanley Mikita (born Stanislav Guoth; May 20, 1940 – August 7, 2018) was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players. In 1961, he..."

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7th August 2013 🗓️ : Death - Meeli Truu Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (b. 1946) "Meeli Truu (27 April 1946 — 7 August 2013) was an Estonian architect.She designed the Swissôtel Tallinn and the Rocca al Mare Shopping Centre...."

7th August 1973 🗓️ : Birth - Kevin Muscat Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager "Kevin Vincent Muscat (born 7 August 1973) is an Australian former association football player and the current manager of Yokohama F. Marinos. As a player, he represented the Australia national team at international level winning 46 caps and scoring 10 goals between 1994 and 2006. After beginning..."

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7th August 1921 🗓️ : Birth - Karel Husa Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (d. 2016) "Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen in 1959...."

7th August 1819 🗓️ : Event - Simón Bolívar Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. "Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He..."

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7th August 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Albert of Trapani "Albert of Trapani (born Albert degli Abati; Sicilian: Sant’Albertu di l’Abati; c. 1240 – 7 August 1307) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Carmelites. He practiced great austerities upon himself to make himself poor in the spirit of Jesus Christ and went out preaching..."

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OF THEE I SING

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Of Thee I Sing is a musical by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.

In 1932, Of Thee I Sing was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform. When he falls in love with the sensible Mary Turner instead of Diana Devereaux, the beautiful pageant winner selected for him in Atlantic City, he gets into political hot water.

The musical is set in and around New York, Washington DC, and Atlantic City.

Early in 1931, the press reported that the show would be a satiric revue and arrive sometime in April. By March 1931, it was a musical comedy due ‘next season’.

In November, the cast shifted. Warner Bros. dropped Dell’s option in 1931 (along with most of its other musical stars), and Claudia (having become associated with musicals) was relegated to Poverty Row productions. She was replaced by June O’Dea.

The first public performance was at the Majestic in Boston on December 7, 1931. Those who attended the star-studded opening night at the Music Box Theatre, included: Ina Claire, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew Colt, Beatrice Lillie, Florenz Ziegfeld, George White, Mayor James J. Walker, Dorothy Parker, Howard Dietz, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Gish, Oscar Levant, Grantland Rice, Irene Bordoni, George Jean Nathan, Robert Benchley, Judith Anderson, Mark Hellinger, and Sam H. Harris.

Among its satiric targets is the Miss America Pageant, held in Atlantic City since 1921. On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, bathing beauties from every state vie for the title of ‘Miss White House’.

We're in Atlantic City To meet with the committee. And when they've made their mind up The winner will be signed up. The prize is consequential - Presidential!

Interestingly, from 1928 to 1932, there was no Miss America pageant. It was temporarily shut down due to financial problems associated with the Great Depression and suggestions that it promoted "loose morals."

Gershwin was no stranger to Atlantic City. He traveled to the seaside resort during the 1916 as a song plugger, selling new sheet music.

A postcard that George Gershwin sent from Atlantic City in 1918was sold for $3,000 in the hope of extracting his DNA from the stamp Gershwin presumably licked. The goal was to prove parentage.

Just before Of Thee I Sing, book writer Morrie Ryskind had also penned the 1931 musical The Gang’s All Here, which also took place in Atlantic City. Ryskind and Kaufman had assembled 1925′s The Coconuts on the Boardwalk. Kaufman famously tackled June Moon in Atlantic City. Just prior to Of Thee I Sing, Kaufman had guided Moss Hart’s Once In A Lifetime through one of the rockiest out-of-town tryouts in the history of the Great Wooden Way.

The original Broadway production, directed by Kaufman, opened at the Music Box Theatre on Boxing Day 1931 and ran for 441 performances, gaining critical and box office success.

It has been revived twice on Broadway and in concert stagings in the U.S. and in London. Regional productions were also common, such as at Paper Mill Playhouse (above). Although quite a distance from Atlantic City, Paper Mill was at least located in New Jersey. Here the designer capitalizes on the real-life floats that Miss America contestants rode on in parades down the Boardwalk.

There are also a number of college and university productions, such as this one in Illinois. This designer reinforced the Atlantic City location with signage including Steel Pier and Fralinger’s Taffy.

Opera companies have sometimes adopted the show into their repertory, as this production in Toronto.

A CBS television version (with laugh track) was produced in 1972 starring Carroll O'Connor as President Wintergreen with Cloris Leachman as Mary. The design of the Atlantic City scene was somewhat less specific, taking place on the beach, with references to such seashore fare as Skee-Ball and Salt Water Taffy.

A National Radio Theater version starring John Cullum was broadcast by NPR in 1984 and the BBC in 1984 and 1992.

A musical sequel to Of Thee I Sing was written by the same team, entitled Let 'Em Eat Cake, and was produced on Broadway in 1933. It reused some of the music from Of Thee I Sing. However, it was a critical and box office failure. It was the Gershwins’ last musical comedy.

Season 5 of HBO's “Boardwalk Empire” takes place in 1931 and shows the Boardwalk outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel with a theatre playing the musical Of Thee I Sing. As previously noted, the show did not try out in AC, although it is set there. The Old Rumpus burlesque house was fictional but based on many such establishments found along the Boardwalk.

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Elizabeth Spencer

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Elizabeth Spencer was born in 1921 in Carrollton, Mississippi. Over the course of a seven-decade career, Spencer wrote nine novels, a memoir, a play, and eight story collections. She was a finalist for the National Book Award in both 1957 and 1961 and a five-time winner of the O. Henry Award. Her novel The Voice at the Back Door, an examination of race relations in a southern town, had Spencer decried as a traitor in her native Mississippi. It was recommended for a Pulitzer Prize in 1957, though none was awarded that year. Her best known work is the novella The Light in the Piazza, which sold approximately two million copies, and was adapted for both film and stage.

Elizabeth Spencer died in 2019 at the age of 98.

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The Walter Kerr Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 219 West 48th Street in midtown Manhattan. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp for the Shubert family, it operated as the Ritz Theatre from 1921 to 1990. In 1990, the theatre was named after Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Theatre critic Walter Kerr, and since 1980 has been owned and operated by Jujamcyn Theaters (Jordan Roth, President). Being one of the smaller Broadway houses in the Theater District, the Walter Kerr seats 975. Hadestown is currently running at the Walter Kerr Theatre, after opening April 17, 2019.

The Shubert family engaged Herbert J. Krapp to design their Ritz Theatre in 1921. ABC operated it as a radio and then television studio between 1943 and 1965. The Shuberts sold the theatre to John Minary in 1956, who sold it to Joseph P. Blitz later that year. In 1963, a partnership including Roger Euster acquired the property; in 1964 Euster sold his stake to Leonard B. Moore. It remained vacant from 1965 to 1971, when it reopened with the musical Soon, book by Martin Duberman, which closed after three performances. It housed several productions in the next two years and even screened adult films for a period before it became a children's theater named in honor of Robert F. Kennedy in 1973. Jujamcyn Theaters acquired the property in 1980. The last production staged at the Ritz was Chu Chem in 1989. On March 5, 1990, the theatre reopened after a $2 million restoration now renamed for theater critic Walter Kerr with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Since then it has housed seven winners of the Tony Award for Best Play: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proof, Take Me Out, Doubt, and Clybourne Park. It also housed two winners of the Tony Award for Best Musical: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and its current production, Hadestown.

In 2004, after the death of Jujamcyn owner James Binger, long-time producer, and Jujamcyn president Rocco Landesman announced his intention to buy the playhouses. In February of 2005, the deal was completed. In 2009, a 50% stake in the organization was acquired by 33-year-old producer Jordan Roth. Later that same year, Roth took full control of the organization as Landesman took up the position as head of the NEA.

In October 2017, Bruce Springsteen, who had the highest-grossing tour in the world in 2016, took up residency at the theatre for an eight-week run, performing five times a week. The performances are a pared-down version of his set that he would normally perform in arenas and stadiums. Springsteen liked the idea of performing for more intimate crowds and the idea of performing on Broadway. Originally scheduled to run from October 12 through November 26, the show was extended three times, the last performance was December 15, 2018.

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Literary Inspiration Challenge: Edward Arlington Robinson

Literary Inspiration Challenge: Edward Arlington Robinson BySurvivor A villanelle is a poetic form that has been extremely popular over the years. One of the most famous was written by Edward Arlington Robinson who lived from 1869 until 1935. He was the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1921. He wrote his villanelle, “The House on the Hill,” in 1894. It entered the public domain…

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Architecture under President Biden

President Biden Architecture, US Building News, Social Housing Shortage, American Election

Fleeing to NYC to Escape The Third Wave

Historic US Election Review of Architectural Aspects: Architectural Column by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA Dec 9, 2020

Architects: Joel Flees to NYC to Escape The Third Wave

“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.”― R. Buckminster Fuller, Architect Construction of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., USA:

President-Elect Joe Biden will take the oath of office at noon on January 20, 2020 at the Capitol of the United States currently located in Washington, D.C. Unlike President Abraham Lincoln, whose first Inauguration was in 1861, President Biden will face east. Photo in the public domain.

Architects: Joel Flees to NYC to escape the Third Wave

All Architects Today Must Be Covid-19 Architects

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 5

DATELINE Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Williamsport Pennsylvania, a town of 28,000 people and a treasure trove of architecture so beautiful…so beautiful that after I escape Death in Lycoming County (just beginning as I write). I will return on February 14, 2021 to the Peter Herdic Park Place Hotel completed 1865. September 2017. The back door of a restaurant represents the BEST my liberal all Democratic Borough Council members can do to provide disability access to public facilities. Video courtesy Emily Hartsay, my health aide: US accessibility challenge

“The US Has Recorded its Most Deaths in a Week”: Today’s New York Times

Today’s New York Times, my country’s newspaper of record, published this alarming pandemic update, The NYT sometimes does a terrible job. I am reminded of Catullus “Odi et amo.” Case in point Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic defaming the New York Time’s tradition established by Ada Louise Huxtable. Kimmelman praised the aesthetics of a pretentious $70 million community library in the NYC Borough of Queens. Multiple architecture award winner Steven Hoss designed a library not accessible to disabled children, adults nor to fat people.

Michael Kimmelman

Bio provided by NYT: Since he returned to New York from Europe in the fall of 2011, Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work focuses on urban affairs, public space, housing for the poor, infrastructure, social equality and the environment, as well as on design. A best-selling author, he has won numerous awards over the years. The magazine New York titled an article about him “The People’s Critic.” The New York Times which should be ashamed at its contribution in encouraging architects to design libraries that do not work as libraries.

Exclusive photograph of Hunters Point Library by e-architect Arts Editor Sarah Schmerler

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Ada Louise Huxtable photographed in her home, 1976 ©Lynn Gilbert. Published with permission. Wikipedia: Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment.

Huxtable was in large part responsible for Zaha Hadid to emerge as an acidemia winning contests but not building. Thanks, to Huxtable Zaha Hadid was able to design the Beijing Airport, So great were Huxtable’s achievement’s that Columbia University’s Pulitzer Prize Committee created a special Pulitzer Prize just for her. Toward the end of her life, Huxtable got so pissed off at the New York Times that she moved her column to The Wall Street Journal. ++++ “Odi et amo” (“I hate and I love”) is a short poem or epigram by the Roman lyric poet Catullus, written in elegiac couplet form sometime around 65 BCE. It is often referred to as “Catullus 85” or “Carmina LXXXV” for its position in the generally accepted catalogue of Catullus’ works. Despite its brevity, it is one of Catullus‘ most famous and emotional poems, and its declaration of conflicting feelings for his mistress, Lesbia, is renowned for its force and brevity. — https://www.ancient-literature.com/

Credit…The New York Times Archives, June 4, 1978, Section SM, Page 26.

Learning to Live Again: My Triumph Over Cancer

Survivors of cancer wait in a limbo of uncertainty: Not knowing whether I would live or die,’ says the author, ‘seemed worse than the idea of dying.’ On May 5, 1976, with the filing of Tissue Examination S 76.1606, at age 28 1 became one of 7,200 Americans who had new cases of Hodgkin’s disease that year.

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Solkoff, Joel. Learning To Live Again: My Triumph over Cancer. LC 82-18743. ISBN 0-03-057647-4. Solkoff is diagnosed as having Hodgkin’s disease, a type of cancer. He fears the disease and the possibility of death. He undergoes radiation treatment to eradicate the cancer, “Radiation treatment was the worst experience of my life”: he loses his appetite and his energy, and he becomes depressed. He feels humiliation, anger, and misery. Written with honesty and feeling, Learning To Live Again is a story of remarkable courage in the face of disease. Highly recommended for public library collections. –Marliss H Hooker, Univ. of Connecticut Health Ctr. Lib., Farmington.

For the NYT, I wrote:

Hodgkin’s is a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. In 1950, according to statistics published in Radiologic Technology, the chances of surviving all stages of the disease was 6 percent. The medical literature now refers to it as “a disease once considered fatal.” Today, the odds of surviving Stage I, the mildest of the four stages, are estimated at 80 percent.

In a society in which cancer is the second largest cause of death and in which there is increased concern for the dying, the problems of those who survive cancer have been largely ignored. Until recently, the fear of death associated with cancer was so pervasive that the medical and social‐service community even neglected those cured patients who, as a result of their treatment, have to live with practical physical problems.

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The NYT published today: “The U.S. has recorded its most deaths in a week.”

The United States has recorded its most coronavirus-related deaths over a weeklong period, as a brutal surge gathers speed across the country.

With a seven-day average of 2,249 deaths, the country broke the previous mark of 2,232 set on April 17 in the early weeks of the pandemic. Seven-day averages can provide a more accurate picture of the virus’s progression than daily death counts, which can fluctuate and disguise the broader trend line.

The United States is approaching 300,000 total deaths, with nearly 283,000 recorded, according to a New York Times database.

The United States has recorded its most coronavirus-related deaths over a weeklong period, as a brutal surge gathers speed across the country.

The United States is approaching 300,000 total deaths, with nearly 283,000 recorded, according to a New York Times database.

My Thursday Train to New York City

On Thursday, I will take a passenger train from Harrisburg, capitol of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Penn Station New York City

“Pennsylvania’s Capitol is, first and foremost, a public building belonging to the citizens of the Commonwealth. “It is also a priceless architectural and artistic treasure, a majestic symbol of history and power, and an icon of democracy and freedom. “When President Theodore Roosevelt attended the dedication of the building on October 4, 1906, he said, “This is the handsomest building I ever saw.” “The Capitol was designed in the American Renaissance style by Philadelphia architect Joseph Huston (1866-1940), who envisioned the building as a ‘Palace of Art.” “Built and furnished at a cost of $13 million, the Capitol features paintings, stained glass and furnishings by some of the best artisans of the day. The building incorporates various Renaissance designs in some of its largest rooms: Italian in the House Chamber, French in the Senate Chamber, and English in the Governor’s Reception Room. It also reflects Greek, Roman and Victorian influences in its art and ornamentation.” — This caption was written b y an official working for the Harrisburg Capitol Building

Harrisburg;s official sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International: Ma’alot-Tarshiha, Israel

Wikipedia: Ma’alot-Tarshiha (Hebrew: מַעֲלוֹת-תַּרְשִׁיחָא‎; Arabic: معالوت ترشيحا‎, Maʻālūt Taršīḥā) is a city in the North District in Israel, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Nahariya, about 600 metres (1,969 feet) above sea level. The city was established in 1963 through a municipal merger of the Arab town of Tarshiha and the Jewish town of Ma’alot. In 2019, the city has a population of 21,836. Photo in the public domain.

First New York Priority: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

This photograph of Dr. Paul Russo was provided by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NYC Dr. Russo writes: “I am a urologic surgeon who specializes in caring for people with kidney (renal cell) cancer. I treat people with all stages of the disease, from small localized tumors to larger, more-advanced kidney cancers that have spread. I have more than 30 years of experience and perform about 250 major operations each year.:

On Monday Morning December 10th, I have an appointment with Dr. Paul Russo at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Eight years ago, Dr. Russo operated on my right kidney. He removed the large cancerous tumor that was chocking my kidney. Then, Dr. Russo removed my right kidney, put it back together so that it still works. How well will be the subject of our conversation. Since Friday is Dr. Russo’s last day before going to Uganda to perform surgery, Dr. Russo will have cardiologists, oncologists, specialists in radiation damage to my throat see me; also social workers and rabbis. There is also a good chance I will receive the Pfizer corona virus vaccine on Friday.

My train ticket

Reservation Number – EC3C30HARRISBURG, PA – NEW YORK PENN, NY (One-Way)DECEMBER 7, 2020 TRAIN 42: HARRISBURG, PA – NEW YORK (PENN STATION), NYDepart 1:00 PM, Thursday, December 10, 20201 ACCESSIBLE COACH SEAT$56.701 COACH WHEELCHAIR SPACE$0.00Ticket Terms & ConditionsCANCELLATION FEE MAY APPLY.ADULT-REDUCED MOBILITY-ID/SELF CERT REQRD ON TRAINADULT-REDUCED MOBILITY-ID & CERTIF REQRD

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Amtrak’s future of high speed travel is soon here! On May 28, 2020, Amtrak tested the Avelia Liberty— the name given to the new Acela built by Alstom in Hornell, New York—for the first time under its own power to Thorndale. The next day they ran again to Lancaster Station on the Keystone Corridor, Amtrak’s Mainline between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This is perhaps the only time in history Amtrak’s new Acela will run on this track, so we took full advantage to capture the move on our new 4K 60p camera in Ronks and Coatesville, Pennsylvania, mileposts 59.2 and 38.6 respectively, at the former Irishtown Road crossing and the stone arch viaduct, aptly named the Coatesville High Bridge. As a bonus, Norfolk Southern local H84 was on it’s way up from Coatesville to W&N Junction while we were awaiting the Acela, so we catch them returning eastbound at Downingtown Station. I BIG THANKS TO: Virtual Railfan, Jersey Mike’s Rail Videos, and Mike Huhn.

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Here in Williamsport denial, denial, denial

Published today: “Soap Box Derby race is on for 2021— if virus allows”

JONATHAN BERGMUELLER, Staff writer

Photograph published with the permission of Editor-In-Chief: L. Lee Janssen (x3121) — [email protected] The talented Ms. Janssen is friends with Williamsport’s best architect Anthony Visco, Jr. Tony is a critical member of my support team. I owe Tony $300

“The organizers behind Williamsport’s Soap Box Derby are in the planning process for their 2021 race. “However, the continuation of that race is dependent on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic moving forward, said Jim Campbell, director of the organization’s local branch. “The whole world is in a state of anticipation,” Campbell said of the current unpredictable nature of the coronavirus pandemic. “Soap box racing allows children ages 7 to 18 to race in a “soap box,” or a racing cart propelled by gravity. The race was revived in Williamsport in 2010, and ran for 10 consecutive years before the pandemic impounded the carts in 2020. “Campbell said, as far as 2021 goes, the race will be returning, and will adhere to all guidelines issued by government bodies.”

Cleopatra, Queen Of Denial Pam Tillis

Well, I said he had a lot of potential/ He was only misunderstood./ You know, he really didn’t mean to treat me so bad , He wanted to be good. And I swore one day I would tame him,

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Architects for Change Aug 31, 2020

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Joel Solkoff, AIA,Assoc, Leaving Williamsport County seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA to return on February 14, 2021

My editors beckon: “All right, stop writing, Joel.”

Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch, Editors at e-architect

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General Knowledge Question Answer | Set – 04

For cracking any competition exams, the general knowledge and current affairs are mandatory. General Knowledge is an essential part of any competitive exam, so we thought of a system that will help people in General Knowledge.

General Knowledge Question Answer

Q. The number of major languages, recognized in the Indian Union as the official language, is 22 Q. The oldest rocks in India are reported from Dharwar region, Karnataka Q. Which of the following groups of rivers originate from the Himachal mountains? Beas, Ravi, and Chenab Q. Which of the following groups of states has the largest deposits of iron ore? Bihar and Orissa Q. Which of the following union territories of India has the highest density of population per sq km? Delhi Q. Which atomic power station in India is built completely indigenously? Kalpakkam Q. The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India. 86% Q. The Shimla Convention is an agreement that sets Boundary between India and Tibet Q. The oldest oil field in India is the ____ field, in ____ Digboi, Assam Q. The oldest oil refinery in India is at Digboi, Assam Q. The oldest mountains in India are Aravalis Q. Which of the following groups of rivers have their source of origin in Tibet? Brahmaputra, Indus, and Sutlej Q. B. C. Roy Award is given in the field of Medicine Q. In which year was Pulitzer Prize established? 1917 Q. Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2000 was awarded to the former President of South Africa along with Grameen Bank of Bangladesh Q. The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award was conferred upon Ms. Kiran Bedi for her excellent contribution to which of the following fields? Government Service Q. Which of the following societies has instituted an award for an outstanding parliamentarian? G. B. Pant Memorial Society Q. Which is the highest gallantry award in India? Param Vir Chakra Q. Which state gives Mewar award? Rajasthan Q. Who is the first Asian Winner of the Nobel Prize? Rabindranath Tagore Q. The first Indian to receive Noble Prize in Literature was Rabindranath Tagore Q. The first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi’s ‘Khel Ratna’ award is Vishwanathan Anand Q. Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of Literature and Journalism Q. Saraswathi Samman is given annually for outstanding contribution to the literature Q. What is the predominant type of Indian agriculture? subsistence agriculture Q. The Radcliffe line is a boundary between India and Pakistan Q. Which of the following has a potential for harnessing of tidal energy in India? Gulf of Cambay Q. The typical area of sal forest in the Indian peninsular upland occurs On the Malwa plateau Q. The state has the largest area of forest cover in India is Madhya Pradesh Q. The year ____ is called a Great Divide in the demographic history of India. 1921 Q. The only private sector refinery set up by Reliance Petroleum Ltd. is located at Jamnagar Q. The only state in India that produces saffron is Jammu and Kashmir Q. Three important rivers of the Indian subcontinent have their sources near the Mansarover Lake in the Great Himalayas. These rivers are Brahmaputra, Indus, and Sutlej Q. The zonal soil type of peninsular India belongs to Red soils Q. 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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.

Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.

He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Alex Haley's Queen. It was adapted as a film of the same name released in 1992.

Early life and education

Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the oldest of three brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee, before returning to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was Simon Haley, a professor of agriculture at Alabama A&M University, and his mother was Bertha George Haley (née Palmer), who had grown up in Henning. The family had African American, Mandinka, Cherokee, Scottish, and Scots-Irish roots. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the obstacles of racism he had overcome.

Like his father, Alex Haley was enrolled at age 15 in Alcorn State University, a historically black college in Mississippi and, a year later, enrolled at Elizabeth City State College, also historically black, in North Carolina. The following year he returned to his father and stepmother to tell them he had withdrawn from college. His father felt that Alex needed discipline and growth, and convinced him to enlist in the military when he turned 18. On May 24, 1939, Alex Haley began what became a 20-year career in the United States Coast Guard.

Haley traced back his paternal ancestry, through genealogical research, to Jufureh.

Coast Guard career

Haley enlisted as a mess attendant. Later he was promoted to the rate of petty officer third-class in the rating of steward, one of the few ratings open to African Americans at that time. It was during his service in the Pacific theater of operations that Haley taught himself the craft of writing stories. During his enlistment other sailors often paid him to write love letters to their girlfriends. He said that the greatest enemy he and his crew faced during their long voyages was not the Japanese forces but rather boredom.

After World War II, Haley petitioned the U.S. Coast Guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism. By 1949 he had become a petty officer first-class in the rating of journalist. He later advanced to chief petty officer and held this grade until his retirement from the Coast Guard in 1959. He was the first chief journalist in the Coast Guard, the rating having been expressly created for him in recognition of his literary ability.

Haley's awards and decorations from the Coast Guard include the Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal (with 1 silver and 1 bronze service star), American Defense Service Medal (with "Sea" clasp), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Korean Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal, and the Coast Guard Expert Marksmanship Medal. Further, the Republic of Korea awarded him the War Service Medal 10 years after he died.

Literary career

After retiring from the U.S. Coast Guard, Haley began another phase of his journalism career. He eventually became a senior editor for Reader's Digest magazine.

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Haley conducted the first interview for Playboy magazine. His interview with jazz musician Miles Davis appeared in the September 1962 issue. Haley elicited candid comments from Davis about his thoughts and feelings on racism. That interview set the tone for what became a significant feature of the magazine. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Playboy Interview with Haley was the longest he ever granted to any publication.

Throughout the 1960s Haley was responsible for some of the magazine's most notable interviews, including one with George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. He agreed to meet with Haley only after gaining assurance from the writer that he was not Jewish. Haley remained professional during the interview, although Rockwell kept a handgun on the table throughout it. (The interview was recreated in Roots: The Next Generations, with James Earl Jones as Haley and Marlon Brando as Rockwell.) Haley also interviewed Muhammad Ali, who spoke about changing his name from Cassius Clay. Other interviews include Jack Ruby's defense attorney Melvin Belli, entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., football player Jim Brown, TV host Johnny Carson, and music producer Quincy Jones.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, was Haley's first book. It describes the trajectory of Malcolm X's life from street criminal to national spokesman for the Nation of Islam to his conversion to Sunni Islam. It also outlines Malcolm X's philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. Haley wrote an epilogue to the book summarizing the end of Malcolm X's life, including his assassination in New York's Audubon Ballroom.

Haley ghostwrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X based on more than 50 in-depth interviews he conducted with Malcolm X between 1963 and Malcolm X's February 1965 assassination. The two men had first met in 1960 when Haley wrote an article about the Nation of Islam for Reader's Digest. They met again when Haley interviewed Malcolm X for Playboy.

The first interviews for the autobiography frustrated Haley. Rather than discussing his own life, Malcolm X spoke about Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam; he became angry about Haley's reminders that the book was supposed to be about Malcolm X. After several meetings, Haley asked Malcolm X to tell him something about his mother. That question drew Malcolm X into recounting his life story.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X has been a consistent best-seller since its 1965 publication. The New York Times reported that six million copies of the book had sold by 1977. In 1998 TIME magazine ranked The Autobiography of Malcolm X as one of the 10 most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.

In 1966 Haley received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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In 1973 Haley wrote his only screenplay, Super Fly T.N.T.. The film starred and was directed by Ron O'Neal.

Roots

In 1976 Haley published Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel based on his family's history, going back to slavery days. It started with the story of Kunta Kinte, who was kidnapped in the Gambia in 1767 and transported to the Province of Maryland to be sold as a slave. Haley claimed to be a seventh-generation descendant of Kunta Kinte, and his work on the novel involved twelve years of research, intercontinental travel, and writing. He went to the village of Juffure, where Kunta Kinte grew up and listened to a tribal historian (griot) tell the story of Kinte's capture. Haley also traced the records of the ship, The Lord Ligonier, which he said carried his ancestor to the Americas.

Haley has stated that the most emotional moment of his life occurred on September 29, 1967, when he stood at the site in Annapolis, Maryland, where his ancestor had arrived from Africa in chains exactly 200 years before. A memorial depicting Haley reading a story to young children gathered at his feet has since been erected in the center of Annapolis.

Roots was eventually published in 37 languages. Haley won a special Pulitzer Prize for the work in 1977. The same year, Roots was adapted as a popular television miniseries of the same name by ABC. The serial reached a record-breaking 130 million viewers. Roots emphasized that African Americans have a long history and that not all of that history is necessarily lost, as many believed. Its popularity also sparked a greatly increased public interest in genealogy.

In 1979 ABC aired the sequel miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations, which continued the story of Kunta Kinte's descendants. It concluded with Haley's travel to Juffure. Haley was portrayed at different ages by Kristoff St. John, The Jeffersons actor Damon Evans, and Tony Award winner James Earl Jones. In 2016, History aired a remake of the original miniseries. Haley appeared briefly, portrayed by Tony Award winner Laurence Fishburne.

Haley was briefly a "writer in residence" at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he began work on Roots. He enjoyed spending time at a local bistro called the Savoy in nearby Rome, where he would sometimes pass the time listening to the piano player. Today, there is a special table in honor of Haley at the Savoy, and a painting of Haley writing Roots on a yellow legal tablet.

Plagiarism dispute and other criticism

Roots faced two lawsuits that charged plagiarism and copyright infringement. The lawsuit brought by Margaret Walker was dismissed, but Harold Courlander's suit was successful. Courlander's novel The African describes an African boy who is captured by slave traders, follows him across the Atlantic on a slave ship, and describes his attempts to hold on to his African traditions on a plantation in America. Haley admitted that some passages from The African had made it into Roots, settling the case out of court.

Genealogists have also disputed Haley's research and conclusions in Roots. The Gambian griot turned out not to be a real griot, and the story of Kunta Kinte appears to have been a case of circular reporting, in which Haley's own words were repeated back to him. None of the written records in Virginia and North Carolina line up with the Roots story until after the Civil War. Some elements of Haley's family story can be found in the written records, but the most likely genealogy would be different from the one described in Roots.

Haley and his work have been excluded from the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, despite his status as the United States' best-selling African-American author. Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the anthology's general editors, has denied that the controversies surrounding Haley's works are the reason for this exclusion. In 1998 Dr. Gates acknowledged the doubts surrounding Haley's claims about Roots, saying, "Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex actually found the village whence his ancestors sprang. Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship."

Later life and death

Early in the 1980s Haley worked with the Walt Disney Company to develop an Equatorial Africa pavilion for its Epcot Center theme park. Haley appeared on a CBS broadcast of Epcot Center's opening day celebration, discussing the plans and exhibiting concept art with host Danny Kaye. Ultimately, the pavilion was not built due to political and financial issues.

Late in the 1970s Haley had begun working on a second historical novel based on another branch of his family, traced through his grandmother Queen; she was the daughter of a black slave woman and her white master. He did not finish the novel before dying in Seattle, Washington, of a heart attack. He was buried beside his childhood home in Henning, Tennessee. At his request, the novel was finished by David Stevens and was published as Alex Haley's Queen. It was subsequently adapted as a movie of the same name in 1993.

Late in Haley's life he had acquired a small farm in Clinton, Tennessee, although at the time it had a Norris, Tennessee address. The Farm is a few miles from the Museum of Appalachia, and Haley lived there until his death. After his death the property was sold to the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), which calls it the Alex Haley Farm. The nonprofit organization uses the farm as a national training center and retreat site. An abandoned barn on the farm property was rebuilt as a traditional cantilevered barn, using a design by architect Maya Lin. The building now serves as a library for the CDF.

Awards and recognition

In 1977 Haley received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, for his exhaustive research and literary skill combined in Roots.

The food-service building at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center, Petaluma, California, was named Haley Hall in honor of the author.

In 1999 the Coast Guard honored Haley by naming the cutter USCGC Alex Haley after him.

The U.S. Coast Guard annually awards the Chief Journalist Alex Haley Award, which is named in honor of the writer as the Coast Guard's first chief journalist (the first Coast Guardsman in the rating of journalist to be advanced to the rate of chief petty officer). It rewards individual authors and photographers who have had articles or photographs communicating the Coast Guard story published in internal newsletters or external publications.

In 2002 the Republic of Korea (South Korea) posthumously awarded Haley its Korean War Service Medal (created in 1951), which the U.S. government did not allow its service members to accept until 1999.

Recordings

Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots (1977) – 2-LP recording of a two-hour lecture Haley gave at the University of Pennsylvania. Released by Warner Bros. Records (2BS 3036).

Legacy

Collection of Alex Haley's personal works

The University of Tennessee Libraries, in Knoxville, Tennessee, maintains a collection of Alex Haley's personal works in its Special Collections Department. The works contain notes, outlines, bibliographies, research, and legal papers documenting Haley's Roots through 1977. Of particular interest are the items showing Harold Courlander's lawsuit against Haley, Doubleday & Company, and various affiliated groups.

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Thomas Friedman’s Fantasy

In a recent New York Times column (April 7), Thomas Friedman listed his preferred choices for various posts in a Biden administration. Among those serving in his fantasy government would be Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the pro-Palestinian leftist whose uninformed and invariably hostile comments about Israel have verged on anti-Semitism, as U.N. Ambassador.

Ocasio-Cortez has insisted that “criticizing the occupation of Palestine doesn’t make you anti-Israel.” Indeed, Palestinians have no choice but to “riot” because they are ”marginalized” by Israel. But to her credit, she has conceded: “I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue. I am just repeating terms I think I saw on Facebook once. I have no idea what they mean.”

How could Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who served as Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief between 1984-88 and a columnist ever since, endorse Ocasio-Cortez for anything but a kindergarten class on Israel and the Middle East? A cursory glance at Friedman’s biography might provide answers.

Growing up in “a rather typical middle-class American Jewish family,” Friedman identified himself as a “three-day-a-year” Jew until the Six-Day War ignited “my Jewish identity.” After three summers as a kibbutz volunteer, he conceded, his identification with Israel had become “insufferable.” But not for long. Smitten by Arab culture after a summer visit to Cairo, he resumed undergraduate study at Brandeis University as a member of the “Middle East Peace Group.” It joined Breira (“alternative”), an organization comprising left-wing rabbis and Jewish intellectuals who endorsed Palestinian national aspirations.

Hired by The New York Times in 1981, Friedman covered the Israel-Lebanon war, which buried “every illusion I ever held about the Jewish state.” Then, posted as Jerusalem Bureau Chief, he relied for guidance upon Peace Now advocate Yaron Ezrahi, peace activist Avraham Burg and Rabbi David Hartman, his mentor for explaining Israel’s moral deficiencies.

As a Times columnist, Friedman was welcome to lacerate Israel in the newspaper that had long opposed the very idea of Jewish statehood. He equated Jewish settlers in the Biblical homeland of the Jewish people with Palestinian suicide bombers. He blamed “feckless American Jewish leaders” and neo-conservatives for supporting “a colonial Israeli occupation.” Friedman reminded readers: “One should never forget just how crazy some of Israel’s Jewish settlers are. They assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when he tried to cede part of the West Bank for peace.” Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, lived in the Israeli city of Herzliya.

Friedman seldom missed an opportunity to highlight criticism of the Jewish state, especially from Israelis who insisted that its “occupation” (of Biblical Judea and Samaria) was immoral. He dismissed waves of devastating Palestinian terrorist attacks as merely “a continual poke in the ribs” to Israeli civilians. The murderous Palestinian intifada, for Friedman, paralleled the American civil rights movement. As a relentless chronicler of Israel’s failings, he claimed that he was helping to preserve its moral integrity.

For Friedman, Israeli settlement building was ”sheer madness.” He predicted that without a two-state solution “Israel will be stuck with an apartheid-like, democracy-sapping, permanent occupation of the West Bank.” How Israel could “occupy” its Biblical homeland was not explained. He seemed surprised that “Palestinian” and “terrorist” were “fused together in the minds of people the world over.”

Enamored of Barack Obama, whose hostility to Israel was palpable, Friedman preposterously claimed that the only question was whether he was “the most pro-Israel president in history or just one of the most.” The answer, to be sure, was neither; in fact, Obama was the least friendly toward the Jewish state. During his first official visit to Israel, the Times gushed a chorus of praise for his peace effort. Obama, Friedman wrote, “embraced Israelis with both understanding and honesty” by suggesting that Israel “collaborate with Palestinians to build a West Bank state that is modern, secular and Westernizing.” Otherwise “scary religious nationalist zealots” might lead Israel into the “dark corner” of a “South African future,” or a bi-national state “controlled by Jewish extremists.”

It long ago became evident that Thomas Friedman’s “insufferable” boyhood identification with Israel had faded away. Indeed, unbeknownst to him, his path closely followed that of Joseph Levy, hired by the Times in 1928 as its first “Palestine correspondent.” A year later, when Arab riots erupted, Levy participated in covert discussions with H. St. John Philby, a former British civil servant who had denounced the Balfour Declaration ”an act of betrayal for whose parallel . . . we have to go back to the Garden of Gethsemane”; Judah Magnes, Hebrew University Chancellor who advocated a bi-national state in Palestine; and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, convicted of inciting the 1921 riots. Levy funneled lengthy statements by Magnes and Philby into the Times. Guided by Levy, it became a welcoming platform for anti-Zionist critics.

If Joseph Levy sought to undermine the Zionist pursuit of Jewish statehood, Thomas Friedman has relentlessly lacerated its Israeli reality. Perhaps the only consolation is that he did not propose Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortes as Ambassador to Israel.

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel, 1896-2016, selected by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a Mosaic Best Book for 2019.

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VARÈSE SARABANDE RECORDS PROUD TO RELEASE PLAY IT AGAIN, MARVIN! A MARVIN HAMLISCH CELEBRATION An Orchestral Celebration of Marvin Hamlisch’s Greatest Compositions Performed by The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by J. Ernest Green (May 9, 2018– Los Angeles, CA) – Varèse Sarabande is honored to announce the release of PLAY IT AGAIN, MARVIN! A MARVIN HAMLISCH CELEBRATION, a collection of the most beloved songs of PEGOT- winning (Pulitzer Prize®, EMMY®, Grammy®, Oscar®, Tony®) composer Marvin Hamlisch, digitally and on CD May 25, 2018.

This compilation is a celebration of one of the most important voices of the modern musical era- focusing on the life and legacy of Broadway’s legendary composer Marvin Hamlisch, who over the course of his career earned three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony, three Golden Globe awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. Play It Again, Marvin!, the concert, first premiered in 2014 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then in 2015 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The show was revised and performed by The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of J. Ernest Green, and was recorded for Varèse Sarabande. PLAY IT AGAIN, MARVIN! A MARVIN HAMLISCH CELEBRATION features pianist Kevin Cole and singers Grammy winner Sylvia McNair, Judy Harrison & Doug LaBrecque and cellist Adrian Daurov, performing extraordinary Hamlisch masterpieces that will thrill any listener. 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Serving Michigan’s fourth largest metropolitan area, the KSO provides more than thirty concert performances each year, reaching more than 80,000 adults and youth per year with great symphonic music and world class guest artists. With an equally vibrant educational mission, the KSO offers school-based programs that music teachers rely on to support their curriculum, and afterschool programs that have been recognized by the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. The KSO has won numerous awards and grants, including the Met Life Award for Arts Access in Underserved Communities, the National Endowment for the Arts for its extensive education programs, and a major Ford Foundation grant to establish its innovative Artists in Residence program. The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Irving S. 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Santa Ana College’s el Don Newspaper One of the Best in the Nation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 20, 2017 SAN ANA, Calif. - Santa Ana College’s el Don newspaper won big at the Associated Collegiate Press awards on October 25-29 at the National College Media Convention in Dallas, Texas, receiving top honors as a National Pacemaker and the coveted Pinnacle Award, among other accolades.

Considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism, the National Pacemaker award has been presented annually since 1921. Publications are judged on excellence in design, editing, writing, reporting and photography. Only five other community colleges throughout the nation were selected as recipients at the awards ceremony and this year marks the 24th time SAC has been honored since 1991.

One day before receiving the Pacemaker nod, el Don was bestowed the College Media Association’s Pinnacle Award for the Best 2-Year College Newspaper in America.

Although students were unable to attend the awards, as the college was respecting a district resolution to honor the state’s travel ban, el Don’s advisor, Charles “Bud” Little was proud of his students’ accomplishments. “They worked hard from early summer through the end of the academic year to attain their goal,” he said. “I’ve had the pleasure of teaching and working with this group of el Don students for an entire academic year, and I can assure you that their many successes here is only a hint of what’s to come. They were a delight to work with and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for their lives.”

In addition to receiving the pair of desired distinctions, individual awards were given to el Don’s staff members, students Laura Garcia, Aurielle Weiss and R. Nicanor Santana. Garcia and Weiss, the paper’s editors, received an honorable mention in the 2017 Design of the Year Newspaper Page One category, for the May 1, 2017 issue with the image of a drag queen and headline “Queens for a Day, Communications Studies Department hosts even to educated students on the drag community.” Garcia also received a fourth place finish in the 2017 Design of the Year Newspaper Page/Spread category for the April 3, 2017 issue with a two-page pagination containing 11 photos and the story, “Trump Time O.C. Marchers Rally, Tempers flare in Huntington Beach over support of President Trump at the Make America Great Again Demonstration.”

El Don’s R. Nicanor Santana won the SAC’s top individual award, placing third in the 2017 Report of the Year Two Year College Reporter category. Santana’s stories over the 2016-2017 school year included, “Veterans with Mental Health Issues Find Help in Santa Ana,” “California Voters Legalize Recreational Marijuana” and “A New Era of Protest for Santa Ana’s Youth,” all three of which were submitted into the competition.

“I am delighted at their academic progress and their dedication to improving their skills daily,” said Little. “All three are wonderfully talented and committed students, and I am so proud of their many accomplishments.”

A full list of award winners can be found on the Associated Collegiate Press website, www.studentpress.org.

Since 1990, SAC’s journalism students have won more than 1,700 first place honors in national, state and regional competition. In 2008, el Don was inducted into the ACP’s College Journalism Hall of Fame. The program has been offered at SAC since 1923 and is considered one of the college’s academic pillars. The el Don newspaper can be read online at www.eldonnews.org.

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