![]() ![]() The DEO has protected important aspects of Washington, D.C., from telepathic intrusion. Another such orphanage was seen in the 1999 Titans series. The DEO was responsible for the "orphanage" seen in Young Justice in which Secret was kept, although a later conversation between Director Bones and Agent Chase suggested the conditions in which she was kept were not official policy. The West Nile glop in New York is one of theirs from the Microbio Division." Manchester Black, the leader of The Elite, suggests they are responsible for the creation of fellow team member Menagerie, saying that "These guys run a triple black alien immigration service that takes the galaxies' cast-offs an' turns them into weapons for the highest bidder. However, in Action Comics #775 there are a couple of rogue agents defeated by Superman. The role of the DEO is to monitor those with extranormal superpowers and to prevent any threat to the general public. The agency has a complicated relationship with the depiction of law and constitutional rights in the DC Universe. It is featured in the Supergirl television series. The agency was the focus of the Chase series. Williams III and first appeared in Batman #550 (1998). ![]() It was co-created by Dan Curtis Johnson and J. The Department of Extranormal Operations ( DEO) is a government agency in the DC Universe appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Fictional government agency in the DC Universe Department of Extranormal Operationsĭan Curtis Johnson and J. ![]()
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![]() "The Journey That Saved Curious George" by Louise Borden. The charming picture book (with illustrations by Allan Drummond) would go on to inspire the exhibition curated by The Jewish Museum, and currently on view at Norman Rockwell Museum. ![]() Borden will explore how the couple’s most popular creation may have ultimately saved their lives.īelow is an interview Louise Borden conducted with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt back in September 2005, to coincide with the release of The Journey That Saved Curious George. ![]() Just hours before the Nazis marched into the city in June 1940, the Reys fled on bicycles carrying drawings for their children’s stories, including the original manuscript for Curious George. The author’s 2005 book The Journey That Saved Curious George (Houghton Mifflin Company) documented the Reys’ 1940 wartime escape from Paris, where they lived and worked for four years. Rey, the subjects of our current exhibition, Curious George Saves The Day. We look forward to welcoming writer/historian Louise Borden to the Museum on Saturday, January 14, 2012, where she will share the remarkable true story of artists Margret and H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This episode also features John’s excitement at Kate Clanchy’s powerful book about teaching, Some Kids I Taught & What They Taught Me (published by Picador) and Andy shares his enthusiasm for reading Auden’s 1965 collection About the House (published in the UK by Faber in 1966) in his ongoing reading of individual collections of poems. Most English readers will have discovered it as the middle part of a trilogy of tales called Our Ancestors, along with the The Cloven Viscount and The Non-Existent Knight. The book under discussion is The Baron in the Trees , the early novel by Italo Calvino, first published as Il Barone Rampante by Einaudi in 1957. His first book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, a bestiary for the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books and earned him the epithet the zoological Borges’ his second The New Map of Wonders received a set of tremendous reviews moving one critic to write that it created ‘a new vision of science illuminated by a rich range of literature, philosophy, art, and music.’ He received the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors in 2009 and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award in 2010. ![]() From 2002 to 2005 he was a senior editor at OpenDemocracy. For this episode Andy and John are joined by Caspar Henderson, a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, New Scientist, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. ![]() |