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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, American author and physician
(Encyclopedia) Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809–94, American author and physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1829; M.D., 1836); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He began his medical…Cable, George Washington
(Encyclopedia) Cable, George Washington, 1844–1925, American author, b. New Orleans. He is remembered primarily for his early sketches and novels of creole life, which established his reputation as…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Biographical Sketch
Biographical SketchThe Emersons first appeared in the north of England, but Thomas, who landed in Massachusetts in 1638, came from Hertfordshire. He built soon after a house, sometimes railed…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Sketch-New Year's Day [1790]
by Robert Burns Scots' Prologue For Mr. SutherlandSketch-New Year's Day [1790] To Mrs. Dunlop. This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain; To run the twelvemonth's length…New London
(Encyclopedia) New London, city (1990 pop. 24,540), New London co., SE Conn., on the Thames River near its mouth on Long Island Sound; laid out 1646 by John Winthrop, inc. 1784. It is a deepwater…Algebra: Sketching Line Graphs
Sketching Line Graphs Algebra Graphing Linear Equations Climb Aboard the Coordinate Plane Sketching Line Graphs It's a Slippery Slope Kinky Absolute Value Graphs Not that plotting points isn…Something Old, Something New...
Former Stray Cat Brian Setzer has built a successful swing comeback on rockabilly roots.Their success was surpassed only by rappers who made a blazing comeback in 1998. After the deaths of Tupac…Jewett, Sarah Orne
(Encyclopedia) Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849–1909, American novelist and short-story writer, b. South Berwick, Maine. Her studies of small-town New England life are perceptive, sympathetic, and gently…Howe, Henry
(Encyclopedia) Howe, Henry, 1816–93, American historian, b. New Haven, Conn. Howe is known for his Historical Collections of the State of New York (1841), Historical Collections of the State of New…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse
by Robert Burns A New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockThe Wounded HareSketch In Verse Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,…