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The Political Legend That Was the Late Harry ‘Soft Shoes’ McGuirk

October 21, 2020 Bill Hughes

It was one of those awful, humid summer nights in Baltimore nearly seven decades ago. We were all sitting around the Locust Point Democratic Club in the 1200 block of Hull Street, dressed down to the basic essentials to escape the beastly elements.

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Memoir of a Baltimore City Homicide Detective (Book Review)

October 18, 2020 Bill Hughes

Image by Bruce Emmerling from Pixabay “[He] was breathing when his body was doused with gasoline and set on fire.

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Sacco & Vanzetti Case Revisited (Book Review)

October 12, 2020 Bill Hughes

“Great trials express–bear–the soul of a nation…” — The late historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1] It reads like the kind

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The Dictator, Josef Stalin: The Making of a Monster (Book Review)

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Bill Hughes

Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay “Tell Stalin I shall be dying with his name on my lips.”

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The Final Exile of an Irish Immigrant – Nora Thornton Hughes 

October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 Bill Hughes

My mother died on October 8, 1988, at the age of 87. She was simply worn out by the vicissitudes

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The Patriot: John Eager Howard (Book Review)

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Bill Hughes

“Remember Howard’s warlike thrust…”  — from “Maryland, My Maryland,” (State’s Anthem) by James Ryder Randall John Eager Howard (1752-1827) was

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A Stranger No More: Albert Camus  (Book Review)

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Bill Hughes

“Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”    — Goethe

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Baltimore Activist Kevin Zeese, Dead at 64

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Bill Hughes

Kevin Zeese at a Protest Action in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bill Hughes) Members of Baltimore’s social justice community were

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Talking Pictures: My photographic life

September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 Bill Hughes

(South Baltimore as seen from the WTC  Photo by Bill Hughes) Photography for me is capturing the moment, the emotion,

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History of the Maryland Regiment (Book Review)

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Bill Hughes

When the vessel, the Pride of Baltimore II, “America’s Star-Spangled Ambassador,” sails into the waters of Baltimore’s outer harbor, it

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U.S. National Debt

The current U.S. national debt:
$38,453,108,492,348

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