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John Cameron Mitchell Biography

John Cameron Mitchellwriter, directorBorn: 4/21/1963Birthplace: El Paso, Texas After a transient childhood moving every two years with his career army dad and family, Mitchell graduated from…

The River Merchants Wife: A Letter

The River Merchants Wife: A LetterWhile my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Played I about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Day's Ration

The Day's Ration When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, 'This be thy portion, child; this chalice, Less than a lily's, thou shalt daily draw…

Barbara Gittings Biography

activistBorn: July 31, 1932Birthplace: Vienna, AustriaDied: February 18, 2007 Barbara Gittings was born in Vienna, Austria where her father worked as a U.S. diplomat…

Flip Wilson

Name at birth: Clerow Wilson, Jr.Black comedian Flip Wilson hosted The Flip Wilson Show, a showcase for music and comedy acts that was one of the highest rated shows on TV from 1970 to 1972. Wilson…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 29, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 28, 1806April 30, 1806April 29, 1806 Tuesday April 29th 1806. This morning Yellept furnished us with two canoes and we began to transport…

Berkman & Goldman: Impressions of the Trial

by GuidoBrunoEpigraph and ForewordOpening SessionImpressions of the Trial Oppression has dragged revolt before the tribunal of the Grand Inquisition. Dead words of the Law lay ready as…

Mortals on Mount Olympus

  A history of climbing Mount Everest   by Borgna Brunner   Sir Edmund Hillary poses with Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay at Everest base. Climbers who die on the mountain are…