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'Java Man,’ the first Homo erectus discovered, is finally going home

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...
Wall Street Journal

Remembering Tom Stoppard, a Playwright of Thrilling Intellect

Tom Stoppard, whose death at age 88 was announced on Saturday, may or may not have been the greatest playwright of the past half century or so, but he was undoubtedly the most intellectually daring, ...
Los Angeles Times

Playwright Tom Stoppard, a giant of modern theater and Oscar-winning screenwriter, dies

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tom Stoppard, acclaimed Czech-born British playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, dies at 88 in his Dorset ...
Wall Street Journal

Tom Stoppard, Playwright of Ideas, Dies at 88

Tom Stoppard, writer of intellectual plays that charmed both critics and crowds, has died. He was 88. Stoppard made his reputation for intellectual wit with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Tom Stoppard, Cerebral Storyteller for Stage and Screen, Dies at 88

The British playwright won acclaim for 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' 'The Real Thing' and 'Leopoldstadt' and received an Oscar for 'Shakespeare in Love.' By Cheryl Cheng Tom Stoppard, the ...
The New York Times

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. By Bruce Weber Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born ...
BroadwayWorld

Interview: Playwright/Director Adam Dugas of CHILDREN OF THE WINTER KINGDOM

The Actors' Gang is presenting the World Premiere of Children of the Winter Kingdom – The Bonkers Adventures of Holly and Spruce, an original family-friendly fantasy fairy tale for the theater written ...
InfoWorld

Java Stream API tutorial: How to create and use Java streams

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it

President Donald Trump is off on another ill-informed ranting spree, this time claiming that he has ordered the military to resume nuclear testing. In his interview with 60 Minutes last week, he ...
New York Sun

‘Endgame’ at the Irish Arts Center Cements Samuel Beckett as the Playwright of the Hour

The Nobel Laureate and Irish playwright Samuel Beckett reckoned that “Endgame” was his masterpiece, and a new staging at the Irish Arts Center confirms the play’s eminence as a landmark of 20th ...
10TV.com

Ohio playwright honors Edmund Fitzgerald's crew with 'The Witch of November'

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fifty years after the tragedy, one central Ohio playwright is teaming with a local theater to honor the lives lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald’s final voyage. On Nov. 10, 1975, a storm ...