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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…