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Collins, Wilkie

(Encyclopedia) Collins, Wilkie (William Wilkie Collins), 1824–89, English novelist. Although trained as a lawyer, he spent most of his life writing. He produced some 30 novels, the best known of…

Words of Three Letters

Try the Find a Word: Crossword Search Adherent, ISTAgain, BISAge, ERAAntelope: African, GNU, KOBApricot: Japanese, UMEArticle (German), DAS, DEM, DEN, DER, DES, DIE, EIN (French), LES, UNE (…

Walt Whitman: The Centenarian's Story

The Centenarian's Story [Volunteer of 1861-2, at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian.] Give me your hand old Revolutionary, The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (…

Peter Pan: Wendy's Story

The Happy Home The Children are Carried off Wendy's Story "Listen, then," said Wendy, settling down to her story, with Michael at her feet and seven boys in the bed. "There was once…

Women's Suffrage: The Story of Ohio

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler Illinois: A Turning PointThe Story of IowaThe Story of OhioThe States of Ohio and Iowa furnish a curious comparative study for the…

Famous Love Stories in History

Love stories from around the world through the ages Related Links Valentine's Day Features Quotations from Classic Love Poems Love Poems on the Web From Reel Love to Real Love:…

Fairy Tale: A True Story

Director: Charles SturridgeWriter: Ernie ContrerasDirector of Photography:Michael CoulterEditor:Peter CoulsonMusic:Zbigniew PreisnerProduction Designer:Michael HowellsProducers:Wendy Finerman…

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Director:Andy TennantWriters:Susannah Grant, Andy Tennant and Rick ParksDirector of Photography:Andrew DunnEditor:Roger BondelliMusic:George FentonProduction Designer:Michael HowellsProducers…

Brewer's: Cock and Bull Story

A corruption of a concocted and bully story. The catch-pennies hawked about the streets are still called cocks- i.e. concocted things. Bully is the Danish bullen (exaggerated), our bull-…

Brewer's: Oaks Famous in Story

(1) Owen Glendower's Oak, at Shelton, near Shrewsbury, was in full growth in 1403, for in this tree Owen Glendower witnessed the great battle between Henry IV. and Henry Percy. Six or…