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Brian Lara is the only batsman in the history of cricket to create the record for the highest individual Test score twice. Lara is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings amongst cricketers in the world on several occasions. Lara...

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  • June 24, 2023

Thousands of Manchester City fans gathered to celebrate their team’s historic Treble as they staged an open-top bus parade through the city. Blue flares were set off and fans threw inflatable bananas in the air as several of the players went shirtless in the heavy rain. Manager Pep Guardiola was...

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  • June 17, 2023

Susan Longhenry, director and chief curator at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art, has been named the next director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. She will succeed Wally Mason, who, in 2014, came from Marquette to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln art museum. Mason will retire from Sheldon on June...

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  • June 16, 2023

Joseph and Barrie Ann George For The Sentinel This year’s annual celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride during the month of June has a decidedly different tone. Due to recent political and social backlash, the celebratory nature has become a bit more subdued and more intently focused on education, history and advocacy...

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  • June 14, 2023

Macabre and moody, The Pale Blue Eye spotlights Virginians. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s fleeting tenure as a West Point cadet in 1830, novelist Louis Bayard wondered, “What the hell was this poet doing in this regimented, orderly, military environment?” Bayard’s 2003 novel, The Pale Blue Eye, puts the young...

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  • May 18, 2023