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Year in Review 2018
Top events for the nation and the world Slideshows News of the NationPhoto source: Office of the President The #MeToo movement, the Zuckerberg testimony, diplomatic talks with North…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Alastor: or, The Spirit of Solitude
by Percy Bysshe Shelley PrefaceNote on alastor, By Mrs. ShelleyAlastor: or, The Spirit of Solitude Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With…A Merry Christmas
A Merry ChristmasJo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Merlin I
Merlin IThy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, peremptory, clear. No jingling serenader's art, Nor tinkle of piano…Brewer's: Kent's Hole
A large cave in the limestone rock near Torquay, Devon. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Kent Street EjectmentKent A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…Oregon
Oregon State Information Capital: Salem Official Name: State of Oregon Organized as a territory/republic: August 14, 1848 Entered Union (rank): February 14, 1859 (33rd state) Present…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
by Robert Burns On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,Impromptu On Carron Iron WorksElegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair The lamp of day, with—ill presaging glare, Dim,…Svetasvatara Upanishad: Second Adhyâya
1. Savitri (the sun), having first collected his mind and expanded his thoughts, brought Agni (fire), when he had discovered his light, above the earth. 2. With collected minds we are at the…Brewer's: Outis
(Greek, nobody). A name assumed by Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemos. When the monster roared with the pain from the loss of his eye, his brother giants demanded from a distance who was…Brewer's: Happy Valley
in Dr. Johnson's tale of Rasselas, is placed in the kingdom of Amhara, and was inaccessible except in one spot through a cave in a rock. It was a Garden of Paradise where resided the…Trending
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