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Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: The Honest Citizen
123 125 The Honest Citizen A POLITICAL Preferment, labelled with its price, was canvassing the State to find a purchaser. One day it offered itself to a Truly Good Man, who, after examining the…2003 National Book Awards
The 54th Annual National Book Awards were presented November 19, 2003, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)…Robert Pilatus 1998 Deaths
Robert PilatusAge: 32 Pilatus and his partner Fabrice Morvan of the German pop duo Milli Vanilli, shocked the music world back in 1990 when they confessed to lip-synching the songs on an…Edgar Lee Masters
Masters, Edgar Lee[1869-1950](2)Born Garnett, Kan., Aug. 23, 1869. Educated at Knox College, Ill. He studied law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1891. Married Helen M.…Aesop's Fables: The Cobbler Turned Doctor
by Aesop The Two FrogsThe Ass, the Cock, and the LionThe Cobbler Turned Doctor A very unskilful Cobbler, finding himself unable to make a living at his trade, gave up mending boots and…Jack Ruby
Name at birth: Jacob RubensteinJack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of president John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963. Jack Ruby was born in Chicago, and served in the U.S…Poems: Conversation Galante
by T. S. Eliot HysteriaLa Figlia Che PiangeConversation Galante I observe: "Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John's balloon Or an old…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Justice and His Accuser
Congress and the People The Highwayman and the Traveller The Justice and His Accuser AN eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Patagascar was accused of having obtained his…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: The Justice and His Accuser
150 152 The Justice and His Accuser AN eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Patagascar was accused of having obtained his appointment by fraud. "You wander," he said to the Accuser; "it is of…Ben JONES, Congress, GA (1941)
JONES Ben , a Representative from Georgia; born in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N.C., August 30, 1941; graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth, Va., 1959; attended the University of…Trending
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