While Ma handled the quilting and Pa the whittling, the girls often made crowns from wildflowers, dolls from cloth or paper, and homemade garlands for the holidays.
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 July 2026
Images of King wearing lei, garlands that are synonymous with Hawaiian culture, have been previously published -- but most of the photos displayed in Hawaii’s new exhibit have never been seen before.
Among the attractions are a Maid Cafe inspired by Tokyo’s Akihabara district, the Anime Expo Fashion Show, J-Pop performances, academic symposiums, gaming panels and previews of upcoming anime series and films.
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City News Service,
Daily News,
2 July 2026
The Redken Symposium format has evolved over the years—some symposiums have offered more a la carte classes, while this year the focus has been on mainstage sessions.
Video compilations of Trachtenberg and Panettiere’s characters, Casey Carlyle and Gen Harwood, respectively, started circulating on social media on Monday, with fans noting the film’s comforting feel of nostalgia amid the tragic deaths of its stars.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Aug. 2026
Seven of their LPs, including two hits compilations, are platinum or multiplatinum, with four others going gold.
Among the books found missing from UCLA's collections were classic compendiums of Chinese cultural heritage.
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Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
15 July 2026
Any new boxed set in the series of Beach Boys compendiums that have been released sequentially over the years has been highly anticipated by hardcore fans.
The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
27 June 2026
Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
Especially when the story is working awfully hard to convince readers that Reese is not just a great rebounder, but some sort of basketball clairvoyant.
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Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
17 Aug. 2026
Nighttime skincare routines are having a moment on social media, and readers are asking which bedtime habits actually help versus which ones could be doing damage.
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