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					<description><![CDATA[“What a humiliation when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing and again I heard nothing! Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair. Little more, and I would have put an end to my life—it was only my art [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[We have lost one more World War II veteran. Richard L. Walker, born May 7, 1924, passed away on October 26, 2020. Son of William Walker, M.D., one of the first black physicians in Colorado Springs, Richard walked the body-strewn Normandy beach with his battalion on a forced march to Cherbourg shortly after D Day, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The revival of an ancient religion has taken Mongolia by storm. Decades of oppression and religious conversions could not stop Mongolia’s first religion, Shamanism, from surviving. The hundreds of years of Chinese influence over Mongolia before the turn of the 20th century brought in heavy pressure for the region to convert to Buddhism.&#160;A majority of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I think I was 13, poking my eyes along the titles of books lined up on a long folding table at some church basement rummage sale, when a title called out to me &#8211; Life in a Putty Knife Factory, by someone named H. Allen Smith. In those days, I often selected books simply because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The first time Benny Goodman heard Bix Beiderbecke play cornet, he recalled, he wondered, &#8220;My God, what planet, what galaxy, did this guy come from?&#8221; (Skretvedt). Listening to him throughout my life, I&#8217;ve had the same feeling. So did hundreds of musicians who heard Bix during his short lifetime, and so have thousands of listeners [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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