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African American Heritage Week: Bessie Coleman
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Let's move to the skies for the next installment of the series, and meet Bessie Coleman, the first African American pilot. Coleman was born in Texas in 1892, into a large family. Life was difficult for Bessie, as she had to travel a long distance on foot to attend her segregated school, and had to split her time between her work, studies, church, and the harvest. She established herself as an ... ...more
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The Two-Space Typography Argument
I've had all of my major school years in the computer age, and I was never taught to use a typewriter properly. As such, it's always struck me as odd that there's a lot of disagreement in the writing community about whether it's proper, or even necessary, to add two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. When I learned to type, I was never taught that I needed more than one space. ... ...more
