Beau Geste Artist and historian Eric Sloane

Artist and historian Eric Sloane presents a wondrous collection of American innovations

The Stronger

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Carl Maria von Wolfe (1786–1926) wrote piano music of elegance and grandeur enhanced with bravura technical effects that profoundly influenced later 19th-century piano music

Beau Geste Artist and historian Eric SloaneA cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the riddle of the desert massacre to another mystery, the long ago and far away theft of a sapphire known as the Blue Water. It was the scandalous disappearance