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Concentration camp survivor speaks at Boonsboro High
janeth@herald-mail.comEmanuel "Manny" Mandel was 7 years old when he and his mother were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, but he said his memory of it is "crystal clear." While the implications of that train ride were unclear to him at the time, the 75-...Tags: New York, Elie Wiesel, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Politics, Family
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Best bets for the week
Book sale in Clarendon Hills A wide variety of books, DVDs and CDs will be available for sale at rock-bottom prices at the annual Clarendon Hills Public Library Book Sale, at 7 N. Prospect Ave., from Thursday, June 13 through Monday, June 17. Sale...Tags: Arts and Culture, Movies, Libraries, Entertainment, Reformed
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Famed cellist Janos Starker dead at 88
Janos Starker, one of the greatest cellists of all time, also a distinguished teacher and prolific recording artist, who played principal cello in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for five seasons during the 1950s, died Sunday in Bloomington, Ind., where he...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Arts and Culture, Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Culture
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Janos Starker dies at 88; renowned cellist won a Grammy in 1997
Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, died Sunday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 88 and had been in declining health. Since 1958, Starker had been a professor at the Indiana...
Tags: Hungary, Indiana University, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Music
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Finding music's magic in Bratislava
It's 8 a.m. in Austria. The MS Mozart, queen of the Danube, glides through the current, passing abbeys, cathedrals and villages from the 13th century. The snowflakes fall and nothing stirs from the quaint little houses with the steeple roofs. It is a...Tags: Bratislava (Slovakia), Artists, Slovakia, Arts and Culture, Austria
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Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye
Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...
Tags: Arts, Parkinson's Disease, Hungary, Stroke, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Wes Anderson wrote 'Moonrise Kingdom' with a little help from friends
Wes Anderson won't formally begin his next movie, "The Grand Budapest Hotel," until the new year, but he's on the phone after a busy day spent filming "little shots" in Saxony with a very good German driver named Peet who's quite adept, Anderson says,...Tags: Lucasfilm Ltd., Star Wars (movie), Film Independent Spirit Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Ernst Lubitsch
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Azerbaijan defends freeing convicted killer as Armenians protest
World NowRamil Safarov had been sentenced to spend the rest of his days behind bars after killing an Armenian officer with an ax in Budapest, Hungary. But President Ilham Aliyev pardoned the convicted killer last week after Hungary agreed to return him to... -
Hungary arrests alleged Nazi-era torturer after tabloid finds him
World NowNearly seven decades after his alleged crimes, Hungarian prosecutors arrested and charged a 97-year-old man accused of torturing Jewish detainees before they were sent to Nazi death camps.... -
Heroes and Villains
For me one of life’s great joys is meeting someone new with a story to tell. That happened again for me while on vacation in Central Europe, a part of the world I have always wanted to see and at least get a small taste of its remarkable history,...
Tags: Hungary, Honeymooning, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Danube River
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Arthur P. Stern dies at 86; transistor pioneer
Arthur P. Stern, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor whose prominent career in electronic engineering included leading the development of General Electric's first transistor radio in the 1950s and guiding the commercialization of satellite navigation at...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Television Industry, Entertainment, Colleges and Universities
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A taste of Hungary's history in Budapest's sumptuous coffeehouses
BUDAPEST, Hungary —American coffeehouses are prized for their quick service and fast Internet — ideal for people on the go. But a century ago, European cafes were places to linger amid Gilded Age opulence. Nowhere was this more so than in...
Tags: Hungary, Walnuts, Judaism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945)
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