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Extreme Vacations

How to find adventure and excitement on holiday by Elizabeth Olson Related Links America's Best Beaches World's Most Visited Tourist Attractions…

Egypt Map: Regions, Geography, Facts & Figures

Egypt is a fascinating and diverse country that spans both North Africa and the Middle East, and is also known as the Arab Republic of Egypt. It boasts a rich and ancient history that dates back…

Balthus 2001 Deaths

Balthus(Balthasar Klossowski)Age: 92 French painter known for his portraits, French landscapes, and paintings that often depicted young women in provocative poses. He remains one of Europe's…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: September

SeptemberIn the turbulent beauty Of a gusty Autumn day, Poet on a sunny headland Sighed his soul away. Farms the sunny landscape dappled, Swandown clouds dappled the farms, Cattle lowed…

Walt Whitman: Yonnondio

YonnondioA song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge, Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night, To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up; Yonnondio—I see…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Waking Year

by EmilyDickinsonIIITo MarchThe Waking Year The Waking Year A lady red upon the hill Her annual secret keeps; A lady white within the field In placid lily sleeps! The tidy breezes…

Lew Wasserman 2002 Deaths

Lew WassermanAge: 89 legendary Hollywood mogul who served as chairman and CEO of MCA for four decades after World War II and permanently changed the landscape of the entertainment industry.…

Vain Empires

Author:William LoganPublisher:Penguin USA In the world of poetry, 1998 marched across the calendar cadenced by an unexceptional gait. Much of the output was either sentimentalized or ironic…

Theodore Roethke

Name at birth: Theodore Huebner RoethkeTheodore Roethke was an American poet of the mid-20th century whose personal, introspective poems influenced a generation of modern poets and earned him a…

Alice Walker

Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple, the 1982 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a Steven Spielberg movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. Though it was a novel that…