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The Supreme Court: Louis Brandeis (1916-1939)

Louis Brandeis (1916-1939)The Supreme CourtGreat Minds of the CourtJoseph Story (1811-1845)Oliver Wendell Holmes (1902-1932)Louis Brandeis (1916-1939)Benjamin Cardozo (1932-1938)Hugo Black (…

A Whisper Of AIDS

by Mary Fisher Address To The Republican National Convention Less than three months ago, at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of…

Brewer's: William

(2 syl.; in Jerusalem Delivered), Archbishop of Orange. An ecclesiastical warrior, who besought Pope Urban on his knees that he might be sent in the…

1 Esdras: 2

1 Esdras Chapter 2 1 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord might be accomplished, that he had promised by the mouth of Jeremy; 2 The Lord…

2 Maccabees: 5

2 Maccabees Chapter 5 1 About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt: 2 And then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days…

Acts: 12

Acts Chapter 12 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And because he saw it…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Day's Parlor

by EmilyDickinsonIIIThe Sun's WooingDay's Parlor Day's Parlor The day came slow, till five o'clock, Then sprang before the hills Like hindered rubies, or the light A sudden musket spills…

The Devil's Dictionary: Frog

by Ambrose Bierce FRIENDSHIPFRYING-PANFROG -n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice.…

The Devil's Dictionary: Sabbath

by Ambrose Bierce SACERDOTALISTSABBATH -n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of…

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

Director:Aviva KempnerCowboy Booking International; NR; 95 minutesRelease:5/00With;Hank Greenberg, Hal Newhouser, Charlie Gehringer Hank Greenberg, for the many of us too young to remember,…