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Fats Domino | Ain't That A Shame

New Orleans native Fats Domino (1928-2017) left school to work in a bedspring factory at age 14, and went on to sell over 100 million albums, influencing everything from rhythm and blues, ska, and the Beatles. 

Time Travel in Fiction

How time travel functions in popular movies and books – not the time machines, but how it affects the characters’ timelines. With appearances by Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, and more.

Eduardo Galeano, Monster Wanted

Eduardo Galeano TomDispatch
The most dramatic and beautiful of writers who caught history -- the history of continents and of half-forgotten figures who struggled for what truly mattered -- in a unique fashion, in passages of hardly a page or more.

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Behzad Molavi Rattle
Tuesday is Election Day: the Iranian poet Behzad Molavi reminds us what to do.