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    Mar 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Dan Brown conspiracy? 'The Da Vinci Code' ebooks -- free!

    Doubleday has announced that it will be giving away free e-books of Dan Brown's international bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" this week.  The free digital download is offered in celebration of the novel's 10th anniversary (to readers only in the U.S. and Canada). "The Da Vinci Code" was originally published March 18, 2003 and quickly sold more than 81 million copies.
    Doubleday has announced that it will be giving away free e-books of Dan Brown's international bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" this week.  The free digital download is offered in celebration of the novel's 10th anniversary (to readers only in the U.S. and...

    Tags: Culture, Book, Angels & Demons (movie), Dan Brown , Lincoln Center

    2. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Scandal, speculation surround past popes who resigned

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    This post has been updated, as indicated below. The decision by Pope Benedict XVI to resign is a reminder of some colorful and controversial moments in Roman Catholic Church history. The last pope to resign was Gregory XII, who gave up the papacy...

    Tags: Roman Catholicism, The Pope, Christianity, Religion and Belief

    3. May 20, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. The Last-Minute 'Rapture' Reading List

    Jacket Copy
    11 books to take you through the endtimes - and beyond....
    4. Feb 20, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Dante's Inferno' and the rings of pop culture

    The Hero Complex
    For the last decade, Hollywood has been mining comic books and fantasy novels for its blockbuster source material, with Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Batman and Gandalf leading the vivid parade. Looking ahead, though, the next generation of box-office...
    5. Dec 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Cardinal Avery Dulles, prominent Catholic theologian, dies at 90

    Cardinal Avery Dulles, a former professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., who was born into a family of elite Protestant diplomats and became one of the country's most prominent Catholic theologians, died Friday at an infirmary at Fordham...

    Tags: The Washington Post, Foreign Aid, Diseases and Illnesses, Family Planning, John Paul II

    6. Nov 6, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. The snapshots that survived

    Times Staff Writer
    My family's first California home was a mental institution, so I never found it odd that our next one was a madhouse. Our parents purchased 1788 Belmont Lane 45 years ago, and my brother, Tim, was still living there two weekends back, when an avalanche of...

    Tags: John Milton, Building Material, Family, Groucho Marx, Psychiatry

    7. Mar 6, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  7. Sic semper tyrannis

    Paul Greenberg
    What? Do even Latin American caudillos die? Apparently, according to the latest and last medical bulletin on the health (or lack thereof) of Hugo Chavez, perpetually re-electable president of Venezuela. No doubt many Venezuelans are grieving at the...

    Tags: Argentina, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Jimmy Carter, Elections

    8. Nov 29, 2012 |Story| La Cañada

  8. Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Keeping a journal can change your life

    I’ve kept a journal since 1961. That’s when I first met Amia Davia. She was beautiful! I felt like Dante Alighieri, walking the streets of Florence in the 13th century and meeting Beatrice Portinari. That same evening, he wrote one of the...

    Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Starbucks Corp.

    9. Sep 5, 2012 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  9. After 'hope and change,' what next?

    Leonard Pitts
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy," the narrator is conveyed to the gates of hell, upon which he finds a sign: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." This city is not hell. But a case can be made, as the Democratic Party convenes...

    Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Richard Lugar, The Miami Herald, Clint Eastwood

    10. Sep 4, 2012 |Story| Aberdeen News

  10. After 'hope and change,' what next?

    Miami Herald Columnist
    In Dante Alighieri’s "Divine Comedy," the narrator is conveyed to the gates of hell, upon which he finds a sign: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."  This city is not hell. But a case can be made, as the Democratic Party convenes here to...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Richard Lugar

    11. Jul 28, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  11. Weekly books roundup

    Orlando Arts Blog
    Tod Caviness here, working from home with more gauze in my mouth than teeth. I'm pretty sure if dentistry had been around in Dante Alighieri's day, he'd have had the dentists in the Inferno somewhere – working as subcontracted torturers. - Big...
    12. Oct 27, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Sandro Botticelli, Genes and Chromosomes

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