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Nov 26, 2010 · The reason for his heartbreak lies next to him — Mouse committed suicide 12 years before his father’s death, aged only 19. Despite a glittering education at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, Mouse,...
Hume died by suicide in his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. In the months before his death, Hume, an alcoholic , began drinking again. The night before he died, he was jailed for drunk driving and tried to hang himself in the U.S. Park Police jail cell.
Feb 24, 1998 · Fox News correspondent Sandy Hume was found dead in his Arlington, Va., apartment on Sunday, according to Fox News sources. Details were not available late Monday, but officials are speculating...
Feb 24, 1998 · February 24, 1998 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Sandy Hume, 28, a reporter for The Hill newspaper who had begun making regular television appearances, died Feb. 22 in his apartment in Arlington. Officials...
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Biographical readings are a staple in children’s literature, and the criticism surrounding The Wind in the Willows is no exception. First published in 1908 — the same year as Anne of Green Gables and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz — the novel was initially titled The Mole and the Water-Rat. After back and forth correspondence with Grahame, his publis...
Whether we read Willows as a simple animal story or a social satire, the narrative reinforces the status quo. Badger, for instance, resembles a gruff headmaster whose paternal concern for his friends extends to an earnest attempt to reform the inebriate Toad. Toad is a recognisable type of schoolboy, charming and impulsive but wildly arrogant and l...
Perhaps the most famous scene in Willows — now also a popular rideat Disneyland — is Mr Toad’s Wild Ride. In the novel, the incautious Toad, who is oddly large enough to drive a human-sized car, is frequently in trouble with the law and even imprisoned due to his addiction to joyriding. At times delusional, the self-proclaimed “terror of the highwa...
Sep 23, 2024 · Crime scene photo showing the blood-soaked couch where Jose Menendez was shot five times by his own sons.
In 1984, the members of the King's Singers (who at the time included three founding members: Alastair Hume, Anthony Holt, and Simon Carrington) presented, narrated and sang in Madrigal History Tour, a six-part BBC television documentary series about the history of the madrigal in Western Europe.
