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"Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway (pictured), published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is heard just twice. The story explores the destructive qualities of war which is countered by the healing and regenerative powers of nature. When published, critics praised Hemingway's sparse writing style and it became an important work in his canon. The story is one of Hemingway's earliest to employ his iceberg theory of writing; a modernist approach to prose in which the underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than explicitly stated. "Big Two-Hearted River" is almost exclusively descriptive and intentionally devoid of plot. Hemingway was influenced by the visual innovations of Cézanne's paintings and adapted the painter's idea of presenting background minutiae in lower focus than the main image. In this story, the small details of a fishing trip are explored in great depth, while the landscape setting, and most obviously the swamp, are given cursory attention. (Full article...)

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Rebels capture Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, as President François Bozizé (pictured) flees the country.

The World Baseball Classic concludes with the Dominican Republic defeating Puerto Rico in the final.

Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman dies in a Singapore hospital at the age of 84.

Bosco Ntaganda, leader of the March 23 Movement, surrenders himself to the U.S. embassy in Rwanda in response to an International Criminal Court indictment on war crimes.

Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the Pritzker Prize.

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March 27

1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war.

1899 – Philippine–American War: Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo led the troops himself against the US for the only time in the war in the Battle of Marilao River.

1958 – First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (pictured) also took over the role of Premier.

2002 – A suicide bomber killed about 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others at the Park Hotel in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist Israeli military incursion into the West Bank, two days later.

2009 – The dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang District, Indonesia, failed, resulting in floods killing at least 100 people.

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A film poster for Island of Lost Men, a 1939 American film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Anna May Wong and J. Carrol Naish. It followed a general's daughter who looks for her father after he disappears and winds up in a labor camp. The film, originally titled Guns for China, received middling reviews.

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