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Diane Mott Davidson
Diane Mott Davidson (born March 22, 1949) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B. Parker. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Her story, "Cold Turkey", won the 1993 Anthony Award for "Best Short-story". Biography Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton. In a few of her novels (particularly, ''The Cereal Murders''), she references a prestigious eastern women's college that her sleuth, Goldy Schulz, attended before transferring to the University of Colorado Boulder. In real life, Mott Davidson transferred from Wellesley and eventually graduated from Stanford University. Career The main character in Mott Davidson's novels is Goldy Schulz, a small town caterer who also solves murder mysteries in her spare time. At the start of the series, Goldy is a recently divorced mother with a young son tr ...
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Honolulu
Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of Honolulu County, Hawaii, Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oahu, Oʻahu, and is the westernmost and southernmost major U.S. city as well as westernmost and southernmost U.S. state capital. It is also a major hub for business, finance, hospitality, and military defense in both the state and Oceania. The city is characterized by a mix of various Asian culture, Asian, Western culture, Western, and Oceanian culture, Pacific cultures, reflected in its diverse demography, cuisine, and traditions. is Hawaiian language, Hawaiian for "sheltered harbor" or "calm port"; its old name, , roughly encompasses the area from Nuʻuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street, which is the heart of the present dow ...
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Evergreen, Colorado
Evergreen is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated town, a post office, and a Census-designated place, census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Jefferson County, Colorado, Jefferson County, Colorado, U.S. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Evergreen post office has the ZIP Codes 80439 and 80437 (for post office boxes). At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the Evergreen CDP was 9,307. The Evergreen Metropolitan District provides services. History The Evergreen post office has been in operation since 1876. The community was named for evergreen trees surrounding the town. The Blue spruce, Colorado Blue Spruce Monument is located in the town, in honor of the Colorado state tree. Geography Evergreen sits at an elevation of in the Rocky Mountains, 19 miles west of Denver, Denver, Colorado. The Evergreen CDP has an area of , including of water, most of which being the Evergreen Reser ...
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Stanford University Alumni
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and then-incumbent United States senator representing California) and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. The university admitted its first students in 1891, opening as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, university provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry (later Silicon Valley). In 1951, Stanford Research Park was established in Palo Alto as the world's first university research park. By 2021, the university had 2,288 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and ...
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Wellesley College Alumni
Wellesley may refer to: People Dukes of Wellington * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), British soldier, statesman, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington (1807–1884), British politician * Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington (1846–1900), British soldier and politician * Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington (1849–1934), British soldier * Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington (1876–1941), British soldier * Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington (1912–1943), British soldier * Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885–1972), British soldier and diplomat * Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (1915–2014), British soldier * Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington (born 1945), British politician and a businessman Barons Cowley (1828) * Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley (1773–1847) * Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 2nd Baron Cowley (1804–1884) (created Earl Cowley in ...
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American Mystery Novelists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ...
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People From Evergreen, Colorado
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Writers From Charlottesville, Virginia
A writer is a person who uses writing, written words in different writing styles, List of writing genres, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, Short story, short stories, monographs, Travel literature, travelogues, Play (theatre), plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports, educational material, and Article (publishing), news articles that may be of interest to the Public, general public. Writers' works are nowadays published across a wide range of Mass media, media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the Culture, cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition ...
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Cozy Mystery Writers
Cozy or cosy may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Cozy'', a 1961 album by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé *''Cozy'', a 1998 album by Tatsuro Yamashita *"Cozy", a song by the Bar-Kays on the 1976 album '' Too Hot to Stop'' * "Cozy" (song), by Beyoncé on the 2022 album ''Renaissance'' *Cozy mystery, a subgenre of crime fiction * Cozy game, a genre of video games * Cozy Records, an American record label * Cosy catastrophe, post-apocalyptic science fiction style People *Cozy Cole (1909–1981), jazz drummer *Cozy Dolan (1900s outfielder) (1872–1907), American baseball player *Cozy Dolan (1910s outfielder) (1889–1958), American baseball player *Cozy Morley (c. 1926 – 2013), American entertainer *Cozy Powell (1947–1998), British rock drummer Other uses *, a U.S. Navy patrol vessel 1917–1918 *Cozy III and Cozy MK IV, homebuilt light aircraft * Tea cosy, a cover for a teapot * Correlation spectroscopy (COSY) * CoSy (Conferencing System), an early computer conferencing sy ...
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1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ...
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Agatha Award
The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving ..., are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore or gratuitous violence, and are not classified as 'hard-boiled.'" At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, in six categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Historical Novel; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery. Additionally, in some years the Poirot Award is presented to honor individuals other than writers who have made outstanding contributions to the mystery g ...
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