Brian D'Ambrosio
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September 14, 2011
Throughout his movie career, Charles Bronson's rock-hard exterior may have projected a tough, unfeeling, perhaps even dangerous man, and the silence he is known for onscreen only enhanced this image. Brian D'Ambrosio is the author of Menacing Face Worth Millions, A Life of Charles Bronson.
June 05, 2011
The modest country home, state memorial, and museum are chock full of Pyle memorabilia and artifacts, including his typewriter, personal letters, military attire, and a small archives.Pyle changed the face of American journalism, and, fortunately, the Ernie Pyle State Historic Site provides a place to recall – and salute – the career of this great journalist.
January 25, 2011
For Andrew Maisel, integrity, stability, and grace aren´t hollow words to be frivolously tossed around in order to impress clients into thinking he´s a worthy craftsman, but rather they are inextricably linked components, part and parcel of his ethical codes of the road.
February 12, 2010
Mario Locatelli, 77, reveals a new element of human possibility. For those unfamiliar, Locatelli, known as "The Mountain Goat," is a mountaineering legend in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana. During the more than 40 years he has lived in the valley, he has hiked each drainage in the Bitterroots and hiked or climbed every ridgeline between Lolo and Nez Perce Passes, from the Bitterroot Valley to the Idaho border and beyond.
February 05, 2010
In the Bitterroot Valley, alpacas, domesticated hoofed mammals related to llamas, are no longer an anomaly. In fact, there are at least seven ranches in Ravalli County raising alpacas for their fine and luxurious natural fibers. One such place to spy these soft, silky fleeced alpacas is at the ten-acre Yumedono Alpacas Ranch (you-may-dough-no) in Stevensville.
January 25, 2010
Reece Gaines is optimistically looking toward 2010 as the year in which he makes some pivotal transitions. "I don't plan on playing in Italy after this season," he explains. "I wish to return to the NBA or to go to a different country to have a different experience. I have a lot of choices right now."
January 22, 2010
Rafael Chacon believes that A.J. Gibson (1862-1927) deserves a book of this stature. Indeed, Gibson was the quintessence of the great western story; he typified what one man could do with an abundance of enterprise, willfulness, and desire, and he repeatedly demonstrated the initiative, dynamism, and excitement required to urbanize and modernize the west. He is a classic western figure from the Progressive Era in Montana and the Northwest.
January 22, 2010
By bringing together Madison area engineers, industrial designers, marketers, manufacturers, and financing experts, the Madison Inventors Club synthesis a contagious entrepreneurial environment. Here, originality and depth receive a standing ovation.
January 23, 2010
Today, Havre´s cavernous city operates as its major tourist attraction.
"Our underground area brings more people here than anything else we´ve got. We´ve had visitors come from all over the world, including a couple from Australia last summer who came to the U.S. solely to visit us," says Margie Deppmeier, CEO of the incorporated entity known as "Havre Beneath the Streets."
January 21, 2010
At heart and core still an Iowa farm boy, Bob Feller, 90, is perhaps the greatest pitcher ever to don an Indians uniform. He still holds the Indians´ career records for wins (266), strikeouts (2,581) and complete games (279) and remains the Indians all-time leader in shutouts (46), strikeouts (2,581), innings (3,828) and All-Star appearances (8).
January 21, 2010
The medal ceremony is the one moment that Olympians strive, train, sweat, bleed and blister for; it´s an ephemeral flicker of time that Casey FitzRandolph found to be somewhat surreal – and a bit anticlimactic.