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Into the Woods A Sermon Given by Henry Ticknor July 26, 1998 at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church Bethesda, Maryland In April 1992, Christopher Johnson McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family in the Northern Virginia suburb of Annandale, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He carried with him a ten-pound bag of rice, a ...

In 1934, At Age 20, Everett Ruess Disappeared In The Vast Canyonlands Of Arizona And Utah, But His Legend Lives On. By Leo W. Banks HE WAS LAST seen in November 1934 by a sheepherder near Davis Canyon, in southeastern Utah. But he cannot be proclaimed dead. Evidence of him keeps surfacing. He is a Western myth now, a Kerouac of the canyonlands, embodiment of the romantic ideal of finding beauty ...

WHO IS HENRY SHELTON JULY 17, 1997 TRANSCRIPT President Clinton nominated Army General Henry Shelton to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The nomination must now be confirmed by the Senate. To find out more about the nominee, Charles Krause talks to Susanne Schafer, who covers the Pentagon for the Associated Press. A RealAudio version of this NewsHour segment is available.

Jewel of the Kingdom: William Sheppard --Marilyn Lewis William Sheppard was born in Waynesboro, Virginia in 1865 shortly after the close of the Civil War. His family of devoted Presbyterians was considered well-to-do in the African-American community. Both freed slaves, his father was a barber and his mother managed a Ladies Health Bath. At the age of 16, William entered Hampton Institute and ...

Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) Had a Gay Affair By Corrine Hicks London, England King Edward VIII's planned marriage to Ms. Wallis Simpson and his renunciation of the British throne when an uproar ensued over his relationship with the American-born commoner, stands tallest, perhaps, among the fabled romantic tales of the World War II era. The Duke (former King Edward VIII) and Duchess ...

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