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The Devil's Dictionary: Plebeian
by Ambrose Bierce PLEASUREPLEBISCITEPLEBEIAN -n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated…Wynton Marsalis (with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Cassandra Wilson and Jon Hendricks)
Blood on the FieldsSony Marsalis has been working in large-scale classical forms with some of his dance scores, but this three-hour oratorio dealing with slavery and race relations is his…Walt Whitman: To a Western Boy
To a Western BoyMany things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine; Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins, If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Insight
InsightPower that by obedience grows, Knowledge which its source not knows, Wave which severs whom it bears From the things which he compares, Adding wings through things to range, To his own…Dan Brown, 2006 News
author of The Da Vinci Code, which has sold more than 40 million copies, making it one of the best-selling novels of all time, was accused of stealing the theme of his book from an earlier…David Pall Biography
inventorBorn: 2 April 1914Best Known as: inventor of the Leukocyte Reduction Filter David Pall invented the Leukocyte Reduction Filter which makes blood…The Devil's Dictionary: Ichor
by Ambrose Bierce ICONOCLASTICHOR -n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood. Fair Venus, speared by Diomed, Restrained the raging chief and said: "Behold,…Bennett Miller
Movie director Bennett Miller's feature debut, Capote, was hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 2005. A one-time student of New York University's film school, Miller directed TV…Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe was both a tennis star of the 1960s and '70s and an African-American pioneer: the first black man to win at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. Arthur Ashe played tennis at UCLA and was…Joseph Hachem
Joseph Hachem won the World Series of Poker championship at Las Vegas, Nevada on 16 July 2005. The victory, which he won by outlasting 5618 other gamblers in the event, earned him a prize of $7.5…Trending
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