HortNews - Wine Exports Rose To $230M In 2001
New Zealand exported a record 21.8 million litres of wine in the 12 months ended December 31, valued at $230.3 million, New Zealand Winegrowers Inc said today. WELLINGTON 15/3/2002 - New Zealand exported a record 21.8 million litres of wine in ... [... more]
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Best Perfumed Roses
The following three are climbers and are not quite as fragrant as the others but are very useful when looking for a perfumed rose to grace a pergola or trellis. Don has chosen his best five roses from this list. They are: Roses can be purchased ... [... more]
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Jeffrey McGowan, Maj USA (ret.)
A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan's memoir is the first personal account of a gay man's silent struggle in the don't-ask-don't-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major, left as a decorated Persian Gulf ... [... more]
Random House |
Kim Philby
In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to [... more]
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Benjamin Franklin
This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin's most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a ... [... more]
Random House |
Star Jones
Star Jones rose to senior assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York, where she was renowned for her successful prosecution of high-profile homicide trials and community-sensitive cases. She debuted on television in 1991 as a commentator ... [... more]
Random House |
Jack Maple
Jack Maple began his career as a New York City Transit Patrolman and rose to become Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD. Since leaving the department, he has served as a consultant to police departments worldwide. He lives in New York City. Chris ... [... more]
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Marthe Cohn
Marthe Cohn lives in Palo Verdes, California. In 2005, she was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur. Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to ... [... more]
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Paul Wagner
First mentioned by name in AD 297, the Picts inhabited Northern Britain from the end of the 3rd century AD to the 9th. They rose to power in the devastation following Emperor Septimus Severus's repression of the Caledonians in AD 208, and ... [... more]
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Amy Dubois Barnett
AMY DuBOIS BARNETT is an award-winning journalist, fiction writer and television commentator. When she rose to the top of Teen People's masthead, Amy became the first African-American woman in the country to head a major mainstream magazine. ... [... more]
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Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, and died in San Diego, California, in 1989. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived World [... more]
Random House |
Charles Burns
Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. Hs work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad ... [... more]
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