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Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson was the popular traveling evangelist who founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. At age 17 she married traveling Pentecostal minister Robert Semple; after…Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn's heyday was the 1950s, when he won two Oscars as a supporting actor: one as the brother of Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), and another as the painter Gauguin, the friend of…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Pan
PanO what are heroes, prophets, men, But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow A momentary music. Being's tide Swells hitherward, and myriads of forms Live, robed with beauty,…Sid Davis 2006 Deaths
Sid DavisAge: 90 director of countless cautionary films aimed at scaring students into conformity with middle-class ideals. The films included Girls Unknown, Seduction of the Innocent, Gang…The Devil's Dictionary: Hope
by Ambrose Bierce HONORABLEHOSPITALITYHOPE -n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left — Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft; When…Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley was a little-known 21-year-old actress when she landed the career-making role of Rey, the plucky heroine of the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Daisy Ridley was born in London…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Tho' Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
by Robert Burns One Night As I Did WanderSong-Rantin', Rovin' RobinTho' Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part Tune-"The Northern Lass." Tho' cruel fate should bid us part, Far as…Xerxes
Xerxes I ruled ancient Persia from 485-465 B.C., presiding over its decline from mighty power to fading empire. His father Darius was defeated by the Greeks at the battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), and…William Shakespeare: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
Tired with all these, for restful death I cryTired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily…Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 14
Part 14Allons! through struggles and wars! The goal that was named cannot be countermanded.Have the past struggles succeeded? What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature? Now understand…Trending
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