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Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Power

by EmilyDickinsonPhilosophyLIPower Power You cannot put a fire out; A thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a fan Upon the slowest night. You cannot fold a flood And put it…

America's Most Endangered Places

The Ellis Island Hospital in New York Harbor is among American sites most at risk America's Most Endangered Places America's Most Endangered Places 2011America's Most Endangered Places…

August 1998 News and Events

1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldArafat Reshuffles Cabinet (Aug. 5): Palestinian leader defies Legislative Council by retaining ministers it wanted ousted for alleged mismanagement.Iraq Ends…

May Current Events 2023: World News

Top of Page U.S. News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News | Current Events This Week The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you…

Sara Teasdale: Spring Torrents

Spring TorrentsWill it always be like this until I am dead, Every spring must I bear it all again With the first red haze of the budding maple boughs, And the first sweet-smelling rain?Oh I…

August 2001 Disasters

Aug. 1, Nias Island, off western Sumatra, Indonesia: Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains swept away entire villages and killed at least 31 people. Aug. 16, nr. Katpadi, Tamil Nadu, India…

Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 1

Part 1Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how…

The Devil's Dictionary: Critic

by Ambrose Bierce CREMONACROSSCRITIC -n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood…