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Ernest Hemingway survived 2 plane crashes. His letter from it just sold for $237,055

The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun "held together with tape."

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Ernest Hemingway letter about surviving plane crashes sold for $237,055

The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: what do publishers' revisions and content warnings say about the moral purpose of literature?

This year, there has been some controversy about the rewriting of passages from authors such as Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie with the aim of removing potentially offensive material. Some publishers have also adopted the precautionary measure of adding content warnings and disclaimers to books by…

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Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins the Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest

Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer from Madison, prevailed Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar, a frequent hangout of Ernest Hemingway when he lived in Key West during the 1930s.

WEKU

They swim against the current of climate change

But Man is Not Made for Defeat, being exhibited at Chitrakala Parishath, captures multiple ways in which people adapt to climate change, with all its complex socio-political ramifications.

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Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest

Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer, defeated other contestants to win the annual contest in Key West, where the author lived for years.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Hemingway look-alike contest

The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has been won by a Wisconsin man who was celebrating his 68th birthday

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How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

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Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest begins in Florida Keys

Almost 140 bearded men who resemble Ernest Hemingway have converged on Key West to compete in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest

The Independent UK

Thousands take part in bull run through streets of Spain - and somehow nobody is gored

Thousands of thrill seekers took part Friday in the first running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. Several runners took knocks and hard falls in the 8am event but no one was gored by the beasts, a fre

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Thousands take part in first running of the bulls in Spain's San Fermin festival

Thousands of thrill seekers have taken part in this year's first running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona

The Independent UK

How Ernest Hemingway transformed Pamplona and the Sanfermines

Jake Barnes is an American newspaper correspondent working in Paris in 1922. Cohn, a friend who wanders around. Brett, the beautiful divorcee who has turned the French capital into a platform between two trains. Mike, the promise of a husband she has procured in the meantime. And Bill, a friend…

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El Dr. Francisco Martínez, veterano de guerra y médico en Humboldt Park, fallece a los 105 años

Algunos pacientes pobres le pagaban al Dr. Martínez con el queso que habían recibido como prestaciones alimentarias federales.

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Dennis Anderson: Fishing hooks kids and grown-ups together, and we should do it more often

Wednesday was the 79th anniversary of D-Day, and to remind myself of the sacrifices so many men and women made so long ago I watched a couple of hours of footage that chronicled that important moment in history. Perhaps my interest was piqued because I had stumbled across some old…

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Mystique, minimalism and cataclysm: Cormac McCarthy's fiction was a dark counter-narrative to American optimism

It is testimony to Cormac McCarthy’s reputation as a writer of dark and violent fictions that his publishers should explicitly have stated in their press release on Tuesday that his death was due to “natural causes”.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dr. Francisco Martinez, served in Spanish Civil War before becoming a doctor to Spanish-speaking residents in Humboldt Park, dies at 105

Some poor patients would pay Dr. Martinez in cheese they had received as federal food benefits.

Marie Claire

The Fashion Editor’s Guide to Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The most stylish activities and sights inspired by Emily in Paris.

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From Dublin to Miami, Irish newlyweds embark on honeymoon still wearing wedding attire

'Married less than 24 hours, we’re about to jet off on honeymoon to the tropical islands of the Florida Keys. This is not a dream. But waltzing around Dublin’s departures lounge as a bride and groom is as surreal as one.'

USA Today Sports Media Group

Q&A with JJ Redick: ‘I’m more obsessed with basketball now than I’ve ever been’

Redick: "When I become obsessed, it becomes an encyclopedia up in this brain."

Evening Standard

OPINION - The SNP are learning exactly where arrogance and leadership cults lead

Bankcrupties, as Ernest Hemingway put it, happen “in two ways — gradually and then suddenly”. That quip captures the tragi-farce playing out in the SNP. The party which rode the high horse of Scottish nationalism as the governing party at Holyrood since 2007 also captured support south of the border.…

The Independent UK

‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward

As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’

The Independent UK

‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on

As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’

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Inspirational Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi, William James And Others

Read inspirational quotes about the importance of telling the truth, overcoming challenges and striving for greatness.

The Independent UK

The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

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