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Charles Apple

Charles Apple

Current Position: designer editor

Charles Apple joined The Spokesman-Review in 2019 as a design editor. He designs weekly Further Review pages that cover subjects such as the history of comics, William Shatner, Tiger Woods, autism spectrum disorder and even how to get your Spokesman-Review aboard the International Space Station. Apple has worked for papers across the nation, large and small. He is considered an informational graphics guru, winning countless international awards and his work consulting and training newsrooms around the world.

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Coming To You Live…

Nineteen thirty-nine was a big, big year if you were a sports fan, you lived in New York City and you owned one of the primitive TV sets that were available at the time. Five sports made their live television debut over a 10-month period from May 1939 to February 1940.
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The Inauguration of George Washington

After the revolutionary war, all that George Washington wanted to do was rest on his plantation - but the young United States still required his service, and so he agreed to run for president in the nation’s first election. He was unanimously elected 235 years ago.
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The Beginning of an Epidemic: Columbine, 25 Years Later

A quarter-century ago, two heavily armed teens shocked middle America in what was then the first highly publicized school shooting. Fifteen people died in the Columbine shooting, and since then, the number of injuries and fatalities caused annually by school shootings has skyrocketed.
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Unraveling The Works Of Edward Humes, The Journalistic Renaissance Man Who Mastered The Art Of The Deep Dive

Over the past 31 years, Humes' written 16 journalistic books in which he’s taken deep dives in history, ecology, education, sociology and true crime. His 17th book — “Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World” — was released earlier this month.Over the past 31 years, Humes' written 16 journalistic books in which he’s taken deep dives in history, ecology, education, sociology and true crime. His 17th book — “Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World” — was released earlier this month.
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Lights Out: How America Stopped Smoking

Decades ago, smoking was a casual part of many Americans' lives. But as research started to show the ill health effects, more people began to quit. Here's a look at how what was once a commonplace part of our culture evolved in the years since.
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Christmas Retail Forecast

Despite ongoing issues with inflation and gas prices, economists are expecting consumers to set new spending records this holiday shopping season. Retailers seem to agree.
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The Start & End Of Prohibition

Today 90 years ago, the 21st Amendment was ratified, ending 14 and a half years of national prohibition of alcohol.The attempt by religious temperance groups to legislate the country’s morality was a spectacular failure.
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Steamboat Willie

Teaser-teasing Call Goofy! Call Donald! Call Pluto, Uncle Scrooge and Chip 'n Dale! Everybody's favorite cartoon rodent, Mickey Mouse, officially celebrates his 95th birthday Saturday! Mickey's — and Minnie's — first successful cartoon short, “Steamboat Willie” began showing in a theater on Broadway on Nov. 18, 1928
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All About Jonathan

Bainbridge Island resident Jonathan Evison has been a lot of things over his 55 years: a landscaper, a caregiver, a warehouse worker, a drive-time radio host and leader of a punk rock band. After writing eight unpublished novels — three of which he physically buried himself — he finally became a published novelist 14 years ago.
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Trash Talker

The kind of partisan language you see on cable news is nothing new. Spiro Agnew — Richard Nixon's vice president — was a champion at flinging barbs at political opponents and the media.
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‘Giant Sucking Sound’

That's the way bazillionaire and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Ross Perot — 30 years ago Friday — described what would happen if the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, was approved: Jobs would move to Mexico so quickly it would make “a giant sucking sound.”
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The First World Series

The early 1900s was a period of rapid change for American baseball, and society as a whole. One of the changes coming to baseball was the world series, a concept pitched between rival team managers.
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Not Always Welcome

Americans have a love-hate relationship with immigration. We love to talk about when our families moved here and we love the cheap labor provided by immigrants. But we are often suspicious of immigrants, especially during times of war, recession or political upheaval.
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Billy’s Big Shot

Singer-songwriter Billy Joel released his sixth album 45 years ago Wednesday. It would sell more than 7 million copies in the U.S., spend eight weeks at No. 1 and win two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.