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Our Top Stories for the Week of December 12, 2022

It’s been a busy week, from political tensions to forward steps in LGBTQ+ rights. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories of the week.  …

Isaiah: 21

Isaiah Chapter 21 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Marenghi

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Woodman and the NightingaleSonnetMarenghi This fragment refers to an event told in Sismondi's "Histoire des Republiques Italiennes", which occurred during the…

The Congress of Women: The Pacific Northwest

by Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway ArtGeorge Meredith's NovelsThe Pacific Northwest Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway is a native of Illinois. She was born in 1834. Her parents were John F. Scott and…

Tales from Shakespeare: The Tempest

The Tempest There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his daughter Miranda, a very beautiful young lady. She came to…

Hejaz

(Encyclopedia) Hejaz or HedjazHejazboth: hējăzˈ, hĕjäzˈ [key], region, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), NW Saudi Arabia, on the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Mecca is the chief city. Extending S to…

Manhattan Project

(Encyclopedia) Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to design and build the first nuclear weapons (atomic bombs). With the discovery of fission in 1939, it became clear to scientists that certain…

Aramaic

(Encyclopedia) AramaicAramaicârəmāˈĭk [key], language belonging to the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). At some…

Lancaster, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia) Lancaster. 1 Uninc. city (1990 pop. 97,291), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in Antelope Valley and in the Mojave Desert; laid out 1894. It developed as a trade center for an irrigated…