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Washington Crossing the Ipiranga
This is the tale of two famous paintings I’ve never seen—Washington Crossing the Delaware […]
Author: tommurphy1951
Thomas Murphy is a retired American journalist living in Brazil. He is married and has two adult children. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the author of six plays, two novels and dozens of magazine articles and book contributions.
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Early Amazon Explorers: Mystery, Adventure, and Disillusion
“Anything might happen. We were about to go into the unknown and no one […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Big Man, Made Man, Dead Man
As a reporter, you meet a lot of famous people. A few are […]
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The United States at 250: ‘Promises to Keep’
Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago this month, 56 men pledged–to each other and to all future […]