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British Columbia Map: Geography, Facts & Figures
British Columbia is a beautiful province located on the Western Canada map, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest, the province of the Yukon to the north…Walt Whitman: Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Give Me the Splendid Silent SunPart 1Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me a field where the unmow'd…William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene I
Scene IA lane by the wall of Capulet's orchardEnter RomeoRomeoCan I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.He climbs the wall, and leaps down within…Top Ten Green Hotels in the United States, 2010
/* /*]]>*/ With the growing interest in adopting an environmentally friendly lifestyle, new businesses are popping up to meet the needs of those "going green." The…Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov wrote both plays and short stories. He is generally listed in the first rank of Russian playwrights and in the high second rank (a notch below Pushkin and Tolstoy) as a writer of prose…Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
(Encyclopedia) Chekhov, Anton PavlovichChekhov, Anton Pavlovichchĕkˈôf, Rus. əntônˈ pävˈləvĭch chĕˈkhəv [key], 1860–1904, Russian short-story writer, dramatist, and physician, b. Taganrog. The son of…John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman
John Chapman was an itinerant agriculturalist and missionary who became known as "Johnny Appleseed," a folk hero of the 19th century American frontier. He showed up in the Ohio River Valley sometime…Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is the Indian-American writer whose novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) won the Man Booker Prize and the fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle. The daughter of novelist…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Forbidden Fruit (I)
by EmilyDickinsonHopeForbidden Fruit (II)Forbidden Fruit (I) Forbidden Fruit (I) Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that…Places Where Women Made History
Some people consider the single most important place in U.S. women's history to be Seneca Falls, New York, where on July 19, 1848, the first women's rights convention was held. Seneca Falls…Trending
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