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Sonnets by William Shakespeare: X

Sonnet IX Sonnet XI X For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any, Who for thy self art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many, But that thou none lov'st is…

2 Chronicles: 33

2 Chronicles Chapter 33 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like…

Jakob the Liar

Director:Peter KassovitzWriters:Peter Kassovitz and Didier DecoinColumbia Pictures; 114 minutes; PG-13Release:9/99Cast:Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Michael Jeter Jakob the Liar…

Lynndie England

United States Army Reserve private Lynndie England is the woman seen mugging for the camera and taunting naked Iraqi male prisoners of Abu Ghraib prison in photographs made public in May of 2004.…

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman starred as judo expert Cathy Gale on the TV series The Avengers, and then more famously as icy and strong-willed pilot Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger. Blonde, blue-eyed…

Tonya Harding

Name at birth: Tonya Maxine HardingTonya Harding is the notorious figure skater who conspired in an attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Tonya…

Owl and the Nightingale, The

(Encyclopedia) Owl and the Nightingale, The, Middle English poem written probably by Nicholas de Guildford of Dorsetshire about the beginning of the 13th cent. Written in 2,000 lines of octosyllabic…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 23

Part 23Endless unfolding of words of ages! And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time…

Saint Oliver Plunket

The last Catholic martyr to die at Tyburn, he was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975 by Ann-Marie Imbornoni St. Oliver Plunket (1629–1681) Born in County Meath, Oliver Plunket went to Rome to be…