BusinessWeek
Pink was also the codename of an ill-fated mid-1990s joint venture between Apple and IBM—just the thought of that sounds weird today—to develop a new object-oriented operating system. Back then, there was an even stranger collaborative effort among …
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
Woofers and Walkers, a collective of dog owners, was out for the second annual Capitola History Walk With Your Dog. A highlight of the history walk was Swift's 1930s tale of Capitola's singing dog. Ginger had lost her owner up in the Sierra. …
Washington Post
The returned book, the first volume of WFP Napier's four-volume set, "History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France," was written in 1842.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
By Javan Kienzle Journalist-historian Gerard Koeppel recounts the story of the conception and building of the Erie Canal, a saga that would contain almost as much suspense as a modern adventure-thriller, except that we know the ending: The canal opened …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The Web site now includes a way for individuals to contribute via credit card (www.historysanjose.org). Bray has made overtures to other organizations to work together. And HSJ will honor William and Helen Del Biaggio at its big fundraising event June …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
They know Cesar Chavez, but she's been overlooked in the history books." Anyone who reads history as closely as these students would know that what automobile pioneer Henry Ford actually said was, "History is more or less bunk. ". …
New York Times, United States
I have the feeling that this work comes closer than Shakespeare and certainly closer than any period costume movie, in making 21st-century audiences feel what it must have been like to be a foot soldier in the early 15th century. …
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's request that the Board of Supervisors rename Third Street after Willie Brown is a departure from where he stood 12 years ago as a freshman supervisor who wanted voters - not city lawmakers - to decide such changes.
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Los Angeles Times
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Hometown author Bo Caldwell will be honored on Sat., 2/23 beginning at 9:30 am with a Chinese Tea Ceremony and a performance by the Firebird Chinese Youth Orchestra.
Festivities will continues all day. At 2:30 pm, Bo Caldwell discusses her book, The Distant Land Of My Father. At 4:15 pm - the Book Signing and silent auction [...]