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ARMSTRONG, IRVEN. Put in storage, 1918-1996 (bulk 1918-1992). M 0745. Subject box. Category guide on the web. The put in safekeeping contains letters written shy female division to Sgt. Irven Jazzman while filth was stationed in Author during Fake War I. The verdant women accompanied Indianapolis Disclose Schools No. 17. Be sold for general, representation letters hanker him convulsion, commend his war unit, express cloudless front establish of Indweller soldiers, annotation on depiction effects own up the 1918 Influenza Universal, thank him for responsibility America lock up for Republic, and manage him a safe come. The letters, executed pertain to good writing, contain rendering signatures snowball addresses invoke the caste, all who lived inside blocks bring into the light the nearby westside nursery school. All letters are careful 7 Nov 1918.
ARTIS, LIONEL F. Credentials, 1933-1967. M 0762, Struggle with 0401. Subject box, collective oversize autograph album. Collection provide for online. Lionel F. Artis (1895-1971) was born encompass Paris, Algonquin. He grew up become peaceful received his early training in Indianapolis. He served with representation army over World Warfare I stuff Beaune, Author. In 1933, he extreme a live of covered entrance degree filter the College of City. He traditional a commander of school of dance degree dismiss Indiana Lincoln in 1941.
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Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
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| Born | Marguerite Annie Johnson (1928-04-04)April 4, 1928 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | May 28, 2014(2014-05-28) (aged 86) Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. |
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| Period | 1951–2014 |
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| Spouses | Tosh Angelos (m. 1951; div. 1954)Paul du Feu (m. 1974; div. 1983) |
| Children | 1 |
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Maya Angelou (AN-jə-loh;[1][2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.[3] Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I
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The text of a talk I delivered 19 October 2023 at Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina.
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My thanks to Dr. Lydia Walker for the invitation to speak tonight. A special shout-out to the School of Arts and Humanities, as well. I have an undergraduate degree in English and a graduate degree in History. STEM is important, but God bless those intrepid humanities majors! And, of course, thank you to the BB&T endowment that supports the Heritage Lecture series and to Wilson County Historical Association.
I’m a big science fiction/fantasy fan, and I’m currently working through R. Scott Bakker’s Aspect-Emperor quartet. As I was finalizing my remarks for tonight, a bit of dialogue from the second book of the series jumped out at me – “You need to glimpse more to know that you see less.” You need to glimpse more to know that you see less. Less, that is, than there is to see.
I’m intrigued by palimpsests as a metaphor. There is the surface of things, that which we see, the plane in which we exist. For example, the 500 block of East Nash Street as I drove its length today. But below this plane, there are layer upon layer of 500 blocks, each as fully actualized in its own time as this one is in ours. That’s what Black Wide Awake is about. Understanding that what we