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Ralph James SCOTT, Congress, NC (1905-1983)
SCOTT Ralph James , a Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry County, near Pinnacle, N.C., October 15, 1905; educated in the public schools; Wake Forest College, LL.B., 1930; was…The Devil's Dictionary: Yesterday
by Ambrose Bierce YEARYOKEYESTERDAY -n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled…Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for playing the wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001, with Russell Crowe as Nash). It was the pinnacle…The Queen Elizabeth
The pinnacle of ocean liner luxury by John Gettings When the near 84,000-ton Queen Elizabeth was launched in 1938, it was the largest passenger ship ever built. But before it became…Percy Bysshe Shelley: To the Nile
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Passage of the ApenninesTo the Nile 'Found by Mr. Townshend Meyer among the papers of Leigh Hunt, [and] published in the "St. James's Magazine" for March, 1876.' (…George Kennedy
Name at birth: George Harris Kennedy, Jr.Character actor George Kennedy won an Oscar for his supporting role opposite Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967), the pinnacle of a long on-screen career…The Devil's Dictionary: Editor
by Ambrose Bierce EDIBLEEDUCATIONEDITOR -n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but…Walt Whitman: Passage to India, Part 2
Part 2Passage O soul to India! Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.Not you alone proud truths of the world, Nor you alone ye facts of modern science, But myths and fables of…Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Summer Evening Churchyard
by Percy Bysshe Shelley On DeathTo -A Summer Evening Churchyard Lechlade, Gloucestershire The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray; And…Cale Young Rice: The Chant of the Colorado
The Chant of the Colorado(At the Grand Canyon)Cale Young RiceMy brother, man, shapes him a plan And builds him a house in a day, But I have toiled through a million years For a home to last…Trending
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