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Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Audience Cavalry Every High June Last Late Led Montana Out Patriotism Plains Stand Stood Witnessed Year

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Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Alive Attention Brothers Even Famous Far Far Less Her Isaac Less Novels Received She Short Short Stories Singer Stories Than Work

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Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Born Both Daughter Father Her Husband Intellectual March Poland Singer Women

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Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Forgotten Her Ignored Largely Literary Lost Out Print Works

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Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Accommodate Age Anything Area Babies Born Both Chances Dakota Driving Fortunately France Geographical Germany Guns Hitting Only Population Pretty Purchase Since Slim South South Dakota Take Test

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When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Cart Cattle Church Farm Growing Growing Up Horse London Near Our Pulled Still Up

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Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Ancient Bare Black Deadwood Extremity Forms Granite Hills Land Lies More Northern Rugged Smooth Southern Time Tip Where

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Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Back Chin Comparison Complete Crazy Crown Four Head Horse Impose Likeness Measures Modest Mountain Presidents Resolved Seem Took Which Years

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The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Course Literary Movies Moving Name Picture Same Tradition Vitality Western Word

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Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Century Course Dime End Ignorance Irony Made Novels Remained Were Without 19Th Century

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: February 19th, 1948

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