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Ryan Lochte

Ryan Lochte is the free-spirited American swimmer who surprised the world by beating swimming legend Michael Phelps for gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London -- then got into a public dispute…

Concluding Note.

Footnotes Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem,…

The Iliad of Homer: Concluding Note

Appendix 2 Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem, and…

Al Franken

Al Franken is the Emmy-winning comedy writer and political satirist who became a U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 2009 -- only to announce his resignation in 2017 after being accused of sexual…

Al Sharpton, Jr. Biography

Al Sharpton, Jr. civil rights activist and ministerBorn: Oct. 3, 1954Birthplace: New York, N.Y. A flamboyant and controversial African American political activist, Sharpton was fully ordained…

Filling in the Gaps

  Do you think that it seems like slavery casts a pall over our national heritage? It does. Do you think that this could ever be removed? No, of course it cannot be…

South Carolina's Confederate Flag Comes Down

Controversial confederate flag removed from the statehouse by Borgna Brunner Related Links Confederate Flag ControversyConfederate Flags of the Old SouthConfederate States of…

May 2016: Obama Visits Hiroshima

U.S. News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major world news events of May 2016. 1. ISIS Strikes in Baghdad 2.…

Brewer's: Least Said the soonest Mended

(The) or The Less Said ... Explanations and apologies are quite useless, and only make bad worse. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LeatherLearned A B C D…

Brewer's: String

Always harping on one string. Always talking on one subject; always repeating the same thing. The allusion is to the ancient harpers, some, like Paganini, played on one string to show…