Beverly Cleary, legendary children's book
author and creator of Ramona Quimby,
dead at 104
Posted By: ramona, 3/26/2021 8:24:42 PM
Beverly Cleary, the beloved children's book author and creator of Ramona Quimby, had died at the age of 104. (snip) According to the statement, Cleary died on March 25, 2021, in Carmel, Calif., where she'd lived for several decades. (snip) Throughout her career, Clearly sold over 85 million copies of her books, which have been translated to 29 different languages. (snip )Cleary won several prestigious literary awards including two Newbery Honors, the 1984 John Newbery Medal, the American Library Association’s 1975 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Catholic Library Association’s 1980 Regina Medal, and the University of Southern Mississippi’s 1982 Silver Medallion among many, many others.
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Beverly Cleary, legendary children's book
author and creator of Ramona Quimby,
dead at 104 6 replies
author and creator of Ramona Quimby,
dead at 104 6 replies
Beverly Cleary, the beloved children's book author and creator of Ramona Quimby, had died at the age of 104. (snip) According to the statement, Cleary died on March 25, 2021, in Carmel, Calif., where she'd lived for several decades. (snip) Throughout her career, Clearly sold over 85 million copies of her books, which have been translated to 29 different languages. (snip )Cleary won several prestigious literary awards including two Newbery Honors, the 1984 John Newbery Medal, the American Library Association’s 1975 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Catholic Library Association’s 1980 Regina Medal, and the University of Southern Mississippi’s 1982 Silver Medallion among many, many others.
Dr. Seuss's political leanings are well known—he was a liberal Democrat who opposed fascism in the 1940s and President Nixon in the 1970s. The new movie of his book The Lorax is a fairly unsubtle pro-environment allegory.
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Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust is the first in the country to formally implement a gender inclusive language policy for its maternity services department — which will now be known as "perinatal services".
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AG Barr cracks down on Philly Mafia:
15 indicted on racketeering —
‘Skinny Joey’ starts to sweat 20 replies
15 indicted on racketeering —
‘Skinny Joey’ starts to sweat 20 replies
Attorney General William Barr is launching a crackdown on the Philadelphia Mafia — and some expect that the City’s most senior mobsters are getting ready to flip on former Boss ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino, who is widely suspected of rigging the presidential election in favor of Joe Biden. Unless, of course, Merlino flips first. A superseding indictment was unsealed today against 15 defendants including alleged members and associates of the South Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey-based criminal organization La Cosa Nostra (LCN), (snip)
“KRAKEN” is a CIA Hacking Program
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Kraken is a Department of Defense cyber warfare program that tracks and hacks other systems to acquire evidence of nefarious actions of other nations & enemies.(snip) Wikileaks has dumped 8,761 CIA Documents on Tuesday revealing CIA base in Frankfurt #Germany which was used to hack elections incl “malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated docs. The leaks purportedly revealed that a top secret CIA unit used the German city of Frankfurt as starting point for numerous hacking attacks on Europe, China & Middle East.
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I hope everyone is ready to do some reading…. Moments ago Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins released the transcripts of nine key figures from the House investigation into DOJ and FBI political activity.
The transcript release includes testimony from:
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe – pdf Link Here
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch – pdf Link Here
James Comey former chief-of-staff James Rybicki – pdf Link Here
Former FBI lawyer, Office of Legal Counsel, Trisha Beth Anderson – pdf Link Here (snip)
This could be overwhelming. So we will post two transcripts per day for full review starting below with the transcript of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe:
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Thank you, dear Mrs. Cleary, for hundreds of happy hours with your literary children. Ramona (the other Pest)