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Qaidam

(Encyclopedia) QaidamQaidamchī-däm [key] or TsaidamTsaidamtsīˈdäm, chī-däm [key], arid basin, c.350 mi (560 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, between two branches of the Kunlun range, central…

Dasht-e Kavir

(Encyclopedia) Dasht-e KavirDasht-e Kavirdäsht-ēkävērˈ [key], great salt desert, c.500 mi (800 km) long and c.200 mi (320 km) wide, SE of the Elburz Mts., N central Iran. It is a huge basin of…

Walt Whitman: There Was a Child Went Forth

There Was a Child Went ForthThere was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain…

Poem: Gerontion

Poem 2 Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for…

Poems: Gerontion

by T. S. Eliot Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleis...Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 29, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 28, 1806March 30, 1806March 29, 1806 Saturday March 29th 1806. We set out early this morning and proceeded along the side of Deer Island;…