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The Illiad: The Death of Hector.

The Battle in the River Scamander. Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus. The Death of Hector. The Trojans being safe within the walls, Hector only stays to oppose Achilles. Priam is…

December 2021 Current Events: World News

Top of Page US News | Science & Technology News | Disaster News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world…

The Illiad: The Acts of Diomed.

The Breach of the Truce, and t... The Episodes of Glaucus and Di... The Acts of Diomed. Diomed, assisted by Pallas, performs wonders in this day's battle. Pandarus wounds him with an…

The Iliad of Homer: The Acts of Diomed

The Breach of the Truce, and t... The Episodes of Glaucus and Di... The Acts of Diomed. Diomed, assisted by Pallas, performs wonders in this day's battle. Pandarus wounds him with an…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Birds

BirdsDarlings of children and of bard, Perfect kinds by vice unmarred, All of worth and beauty set Gems in Nature's cabinet; These the fables she esteems Reality most like to dreams. Welcome…

The Celtic Twilight: Into the Twilight

by W. B. Yeats By the RoadsideInto the Twilight Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight;…

Arthur Guiterman: In the Hospital

In the HospitalArthur GuitermanBecause on the branch that is tapping my pane A sun-wakened leaf-bud, uncurled, Is bursting its rusty brown sheathing in twain, I know there is Spring in the…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The World's Wanderers

by Percy Bysshe Shelley An AllegorySonnetThe World's Wanderers Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1. Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery…

Dennis Alan (Denny) SMITH, Congress, OR (1938)

SMITH Dennis Alan (Denny) , a Representative from Oregon; born in Ontario, Malheur County, Oreg., January 19, 1938; graduated from Grant Union High School, John Day, Oreg., 1956; B.A., Willamette…

Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun was a German rocket scientist who helped build the massive rockets that sent American astronauts to the moon in the years after World War II. Born and raised in Germany, von Braun…