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Henrietta Lacks
Name at birth: Loretta PleasantHenrietta Lacks was an African-American in Maryland whose cell samples were taken without her consent in 1951 and are still used today in biomedical research. Born and…Grantland Rice Biography
Grantland RiceBorn: Nov. 1, 1880First celebrated American sportswriter chronicled the Golden Age of Sport in 1920s; immortalized Notre Dame's “Four Horsemen.”Died: July 13, 1954Manon RheaumeR…Grantland Rice
Grantland RiceBorn: Nov. 1, 1880First celebrated American sportswriter chronicled the Golden Age of Sport in 1920s; immortalized Notre Dame's “Four Horsemen.”Died: July 13, 1954Manon RheaumeR…Tinker to Evers to Chance
Tinker to Evers to Chance Chicago Cubs double play combination from 1903-10; immortalized in poem by New York sportswriter Franklin P. Adams—SS Joe Tinker (1880-1948), 2B Johnny Evers (1883-…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Hymn to Mercury
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to Castor and PolluxHymn to Mercury Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. This alone of the "…The Iliad of Homer: How Achilles grieved for Patroklos, and how Thetis asked for him new armour of Hephaistos; and of the making of the armour
Book 17 Book 19 How Achilles grieved for Patroklos, and how Thetis asked for him new armour of Hephaistos; and of the making of the armour. Thus fought the rest in the likeness of…Calypso--Ulysses Reaches Scheria on a Raft - The Odyssey
The Visit to King Menelaus, W... The Meeting Between Nausicaa ... Calypso--Ulysses Reaches Scheria on a Raft. And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus--harbinger of…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Reticence
by EmilyDickinsonThe Lost ThoughtWith FlowersReticence Reticence The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan; Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature…Stephenie Meyer
Name at birth: Stephenie Morgan Stephenie Meyer is the author of the popular Twilight series of books for teens. The stories feature Bella, a high school girl in rural Washington State who falls into…John Donne: The Computation
The ComputationFor my first twenty years, since yesterday, I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away; For forty more I fed on favours past, And forty on hopes that thou wouldst…Trending
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