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2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Awards ranging from journalism to drama to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
by Robert Burns On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,Impromptu On Carron Iron WorksElegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair The lamp of day, with—ill presaging glare, Dim,…Brewer's: Madras System of Education
A system of mutual instruction, introduced by Dr. Andrew Bell into the institution at Madras for the education of the orphan children of the European military. Bell lived 1753-1832.…Brewer's: Aurora Raby
A rich, noble English orphan; left to the care of guardians; a Catholic in religion; and in person. “A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.” Byron: Don Juan. xv 43. Source:…Brewer's: Monimia
in Otway's tragedy of The Orphan. Sir Walter Scott says, “More tears have been shed for the sorrows of Monimia, than for those of Juliet and Desdemona.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Given on Saturday, March 4, 1865 Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the…Walt Whitman: Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]Part 1What may we chant, O thou within this tomb? What tablets, outlines, hang for thee, O millionnaire? The life thou lived'st we know not, But that…Great Novels by Native American Authors
Popular novels about Native life and heritage by Native authors Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Related Links American Indian Heritage Month American Indian Quotes Notable…The Devil's Dictionary: O
by Ambrose Bierce…Brewer's: Spirited Away
Kidnapped; allured. Kidnappers who beguiled orphans, apprentices, and others on board ship in order to sell them to planters in Barbadoes and Virginia, were called “spirits.” Mr. Doyle (…Trending
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