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The Midwest

Source: The U.S. Department of State The Midwest is a cultural crossroads. Starting in the early 1800s easterners moved there in search of better farmland, and soon Europeans bypassed the…

The Divine Comedy: Inferno: Canto XIV

Inferno: Canto XIIIInferno: Canto XVInferno: Canto XIV Because the charity of my native place Constrained me, gathered I the scattered leaves, And gave them back to him, who now was…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: May 7, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark May 6, 1806May 8, 1806May 7, 1806 Wednesday May 7th 1806. This morning we collected our horses and set out early accompanyed by the brother of…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 2, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 1, 1806June 3, 1806June 2, 1806 Monday June 2cd 1806. McNeal and york were sent on a trading voyage over the river this morning. having…

Crash in the Andes (1972)

On October 12, 1972, a chartered military plane carrying an amateur rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, left for Santiago, Chile. When the weather became treacherous, the plane landed…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 6

Part 6The soul, Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows. I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most…