6/7/2023 0 Comments Stephanie plum 3Achan Green and Paris Bey took first and second in the 300 hurdles by finishing in 40.9 and 41.32 seconds, respectively. The Penn Hills track team saw several outstanding performances at the South Fayette Invitational. Sipple set the school record with a 2:02.73 at the NCAA championships in March to qualify for the B final and finished 16th overall. Sipple received the award following a season where she was a Division II honorable mention all-American in the 200 fly. Kelly scored more than 1,000 points during his time at Penn Hills.Įdinboro senior swimmer Stephanie Sipple was given the award for top performance by an athlete for the Fighting Scots. Kelly was one of three WPIAL players selected for the 5A squad along with North Hills’ Royce Parham and Mars’ Tasso Sfanos. As a result of the Indians’ success and Kelly’s achievement, the Indians were able to finish the season with a 23-4 record, a WPIAL crown and the program’s second straight appearance in the PIAA quarterfinals.įor his efforts, Kelly, who will play at Quinnipiac next season, was named to second-team all-state. Kelly, who led Penn Hills in scoring, was able to help deliver that. Penn Hills guard Daemar Kelly was determined to finish his senior season with a WPIAL Class 5A championship in boys basketball.
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Thank you jeevesAfter a furious chase, Tom Brock and Jack Stone, the men who followed the woman, identify themselves to Jeeves and Bertie as Scotland Yard agents and say that the woman stole important papers. On the road, Jeeves and Bertie pick up Drowsy, a stranded black American saxophonist. The next day, annoyed that Jeeves let the woman leave during the night, Bertie, having learned from a telegram that she was expected at Mooring Manor Hotel, convinces Jeeves that they should go there. That night, a mysterious woman followed by two men takes refuge in the Wooster home in London to Bertie's delight. When Bertie Wooster expresses the desire to go to Deauville in search of adventure and romance, his "gentleman's gentleman" Jeeves gives notice that he will leave the next morning because Bertie's earlier exploits endangered the placid Jeeves. 6/7/2023 0 Comments Clive barker in the fleshHe later alluded to Valentin in many of his stories. When he was three, Barker witnessed the French skydiver Léo Valentin plummet to his death during a performance at an air show in Liverpool. He was educated at Dovedale Primary School, Quarry Bank High School and the University of Liverpool, where he studied English and philosophy. He has also created characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been featured in ongoing comics series.īarker was born in Liverpool, the son of Joan Ruby (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. He was also an executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.īarker's paintings and illustrations have been shown in galleries in the United States, and have appeared in his books. His fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series, the first installment of which he also wrote and directed, and the Candyman series. He has since written many novels and other works. Barker at the Science Fiction Museum in 2007Īuthor, film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playwright, painter, illustrator, visual artist, game producer, comic writer and comic artistĬlive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. 6/7/2023 0 Comments Prudence by gail carrigerShe stumbles onto some very interesting events and ends up involving herself in dire situations to sort it all out. She is given a dirigible and is sent off to India in pursuit of a new, delicious kind of tea. This book is about a young woman named Prudence. This one also features a few supernatural creatures of the werewolf and vampire variety. That series and this one are both set back in the day when women still wore bustles, sent out cards before going visiting, and when there were rules to appearing in society. I'll be posting my thoughts on that series very soon as I just realized I had not yet talked about it on here! Hopefully you'll already be acquainted with Gail Carriger's other series The Parasol Protectorate series, but if you haven't been yet, that's okay though you should rectify that as soon as possible. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Rockwell kent shakespeareKent's early paintings of Mount Monadnock and New Hampshire were first shown at the Society of American Artists in New York in 1904, when Dublin Pond was purchased by Smith College. At Columbia, Kent befriended future curator Carl Zigrosser, who became his close friend, supporter, and collaborator. An undergraduate background in architecture at Columbia University prepared Kent for occasional work in the 1900s and 1910s as an architectural renderer and carpenter. During the summer of 1903, in Dublin, New Hampshire, Kent was apprenticed to painter and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer. He studied composition and design with Arthur Wesley Dow at the Art Students League in the fall of 1900, and he studied painting with William Merritt Chase each of the three summers between 19 at the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art, after which he entered in the fall of 1902 Robert Henri's class at the New York School of Art, which Chase had founded. Kent studied with several influential painters and theorists of his day. He lived much of his early life in and around New York City, where he attended the Horace Mann School. Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. Rockwell Kent (J– March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. 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Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. But there are unsettling complications to the case-including a family connection. Wrexford is tasked with retrieving it before it falls into the wrong hands. The late Jeremiah Willis was the engineering genius behind a new design for a top-secret weapon, and the prototype is missing from the Royal Armory's laboratory. But when Wrexford and their two young wards, Raven and Hawk, discover a body floating in Hyde Park's famous lake, that newfound peace looks to be at risk. Still, some social obligations must be honored, especially with the grand Peace Celebrations unfolding throughout London to honor victory over Napoleon. Charlotte, now the Countess of Wrexford, would like nothing more than a summer of peace and quiet with her new husband and their unconventional family and friends. Then Duchess and Woolly turn up, friends of Emmett and newly escaped from Salina. Billy is convinced she’s in San Francisco and is sure they’ll find her at the July 4th celebrations, travelling there along the Lincoln Highway which crosses the country from east to west. Eight-year-old Billy has other ideas, having found the postcards their mother sent after she left them when he was a baby, hidden in a drawer by their father. Having found himself a job with the local carpenter, he’d saved enough money to buy a Studebaker and gained sufficient skills to set himself up fixing-up houses before his detention, his eyes set on Texas. His father has recently died deeply in debt but Emmett has a plan. Seventeen-year-old Emmett has been released early from Salina, the youth detention centre where he was sentenced to spend eighteen months for involuntary manslaughter. That’s why it’s usually more trouble than it’s worth to explain yourself. Most people need a ladder and a telescope to make sense of two plus two. Towles’ book turned out to be a 1950s American odyssey which takes three young men and an eight-year-old boy on a series of adventures beginning in Nebraska. That didn’t stop me from putting my hand up for a proof of The Lincoln Highway whose stylish jacket seemed to offer the prospect of a road novel, long enough to sink into. I loved Amor Towles Rules of Civility but, for some reason that I can’t now remember, could not get on with A Gentleman in Moscow at all. When he spoke mistruth after mistruth, she had to judge in real time when to jump in. Simpson was a pushover: When Kaitlan tried to challenge him, he just kept talking - when he wasn’t accusing her of having an agenda or calling her “nasty,” his signature adjective for women who challenge him. We couldn’t relitigate the trial like aggressive prosecutors, and we couldn’t let O.J., well, get away with murder.Īs Wednesday night approached, I couldn’t help but think about Kaitlan Collins preparing for the Trump town hall. We had poured over articles and interviews on our way to the West Coast, but a nagging feeling had followed me the entire trip: This was a no-win situation. Tom Brokaw and I were set to interrogate Simpson about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, his recent acquittal, and the many unanswered questions that were still looming in the cool L.A. Simpson scheduled for that night had been canceled, I did a happy dance in my hotel room. When Johnnie Cochran called me in October of 1995 to tell me the live interview with O.J. Tuppence is more active in the detecting business than Nora, but they share a spirit. Nora Charles in Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, which first appeared in 1934, is another detective fiction fan who escapes her constricted routine (and the burden of a large fortune) by supporting her spouse, Nick, as he sallies forth and solves a mystery. Christie was always good at writing self-reliant, intelligent female characters, but in making Tuppence a connoisseur of detective novels, she seems explicitly to be encouraging her female readers to identify with the character. In placing a married couple at the heart of the action, writers of the genre could involve women in their plots in ways that made them more than victims, sirens or a figure in the kitchen (which is where Mme Maigret is usually to be found). That of course is precisely the appeal of the thriller – vicarious danger. Shocking though that decision might seem to lovers of the books, it is in keeping with the spirit of Christie’s original dedication: “To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.” “‘Tommy, old thing!’ ‘Tuppence, old bean!’” That chance encounter is lost in the new BBC adaptation of the stories, which have been updated to the 1950s, by which time the couple (played by Jessica Raine and David Walliams) are already married but rather bored with their humdrum existence. On the page, Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley are childhood friends who bump into each other at the end of the first world war. |