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  • Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery (formerly known as Layman's) is located at 2945 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis.

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • "Layman," Nicolas, by whose advice he built a house for the Brethren of

    The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905

  • I am grateful for the helpful advice in the many conversations about this book that I have had with my colleagues at Notre Dame, especially the lunches with my colleagues in Decio Hall: Darren Davis, Geoff Layman, John Griffin, David Nickerson, and Christina Wolbrecht.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • As political scientist Geoffrey Layman puts it, “Only those issues that capture the sustained attention of the mass public and change its perceptions of and feelings about the parties are capable of creating long-term partisan change.”

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • In this vein, an enlightened layperson, Layman Pang, once famously wrote of such expectations, Neither saint nor sage, I am just an ordinary person who has completed his work.

    William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011

  • In this vein, an enlightened layperson, Layman Pang, once famously wrote of such expectations, Neither saint nor sage, I am just an ordinary person who has completed his work.

    William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011

  • The way it came about is that that I'd met Professor Layman who'd written a number of fabulous books on Hammett, and the first really good biography of Hammett, called Shadow Man, (because one of the operatives at Pinkerton's detective agency where Hammett worked said that he was a great shadow man, he could follow anyone anywhere and no one would ever see this lanky man tailing them).

    Joe Gores - An interview with author 2010

  • Featured in the episode — after the interview — are my reviews for The Waking: Dreams of the Dead by Thomas Randall, Flesh by Richard Layman, and The Box: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson.

    BookBanter Episode with Garth Nix « The BookBanter Blog 2009

  • Through Rick Layman, I met the family, including Jo Marshall, Hammett's surviving daughter, and in 1999 I wrote her a letter asking if she thought a prequel to The Maltese Falcon would be a good idea.

    Joe Gores - An interview with author 2010

  • A: It was a comment the Hammett scholar Rick Layman once said about The Maltese Falcon that first grabbed me: that it was "America's first existential novel."

    Joe Gores - An interview with author 2010

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