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Tom Loftin Johnson Biography
Tom Loftin Johnsonbusinessman, U.S. representative, mayorBorn: 1854Birthplace: near Georgetown, Ky. He spent the early part of his career runningg streetcars in Louisville, where he came in…Amy Lowell: A Lady
A LadyAmy LowellYou are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord; Or like the sun-flooded silks Of an eighteenth-century boudoir. In your eyes Smoulder the fallen…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: My Heart's In The Highlands
by Robert Burns The Captive RibbandThe Whistle-A BalladMy Heart's In The Highlands Tune-"Failte na Miosg." Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-…Poems by Emily Dickinson: Power
Philosophy LI 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 in a drawer…Ecology of Fear
Author:Mike DavisPublisher:Metropolitan Books In this brilliant and revealing work, meatcutter-turned-MacArthur Fellow Davis picks up where he left off in City of Quartz and trains his sights…Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh is the central figure and hero of the Assyro-Babylonian myth The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story written on clay tablets that is considered to be the earliest known literary work. Gilgamesh was…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn
Concord HymnSung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood…Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Part 8
Part 8Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan? River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide? The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the…Amy Lowell: Midday and Afternoon
Midday and AfternoonSwirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. The stock-still brick facade of an old church, against which the waves of people lurch and withdraw. Flare of…Frank R. REID, Congress, IL (1879-1945)
REID Frank R. , a Representative from Illinois; born in Aurora, Kane County, Ill., April 18, 1879; attended the public schools, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago College of Law; was…Trending
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