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Friday, February 4, 2011

“What kind of history is this?” plus 2 more

“What kind of history is this?” plus 2 more


What kind of history is this?

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 06:04 PM PST

Remember way back when, how cable TV was going to be this really cool place where anyone who was interested in, say, history could have an entire channel devoted just to that? Ratings wouldn't matter because it was cable and the money you paid each month would pay for everything, and we could have r...

History center: Civil War exhibit puts focus on Florida

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 07:38 AM PST

The month marks the 150th anniversary of Florida joining the Confederate States of America. "Florida in the Civil War," an exhibit opening Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Orange County Regional History Center, explores the state's role in the conflict. Florida's population in 1861 was about 140,000, and about 44 percent of those people were slaves. There [...]

A stirring moment in jazz history to echo in Turkish Embassy

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:53 PM PST

The ghosts are jamming again. They're playing that hot jazz in the Turkish Embassy's old Sheridan Circle mansion, just as they did in the 1930s and '40s, when the ambassador's boys, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, were always inviting their favorite musicians over to hang and blow and thump. The inform...

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