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Kathleen Battle Biography

Kathleen Battleoperatic sopranoBorn: 8/13/1948Birthplace: Portsmouth, Ohio Best known for her obnoxious treatment of colleagues backstage, she began her career teaching music in an inner-city…

Sara Teasdale: The Silent Battle

The Silent Battle(In Memory of J. W. T. Jr.)He was a soldier in that fight Where there is neither flag nor drum, And without sound of musketry The stealthy foemen come.Year in, year out, by…

Of the battle around the body of Patroklos.

Book: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Of the battle around the body of Patroklos.But Atreus' son, Menelaos dear to Ares, was not unaware of the slaying of…

Women's Suffrage: The Decisive Battle

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Fighting ForcesMore Victories and More DefeatsThe Decisive BattleTo even a casual observer at the close of 1916 it must have been clear…

The Illiad: The Battle at the Grecian Wall.

The Third Battle, and the Acts... The Fourth Battle Continued, i... The Battle at the Grecian Wall. The Greeks having retired into their entrenchments, Hector attempts to force them;…

Brewer's: Fifteen decisive Battles

(The), according to Sir E.S. Creasy, were: 1. The battle of MARATHON (Sept., 490 B.C.), when Miltiades, with 10,000 Greeks, defeated 100,000 Persians under Datis and Artaphernes. 2. The…

Classical Mythology: The Final Battles

The Final BattlesClassical MythologyAchilles: The Angry Young HeroDon't Try This at Home!To War!The Final Battles Though Achilles himself would not fight, he agreed to lend his armor to his squire,…

Bennington Battle Day: Vermont

A major American victory by Liz Olson The Battle of Bennington took place on August 16, 1777, during the Revolutionary War. A victory for the American forces, the Battle of…