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(Encyclopedia) Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations,…Candide: What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians
How Candide Was Brought Up in... How Candide Escaped from the ... What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians Candide, thus driven out of this terrestrial paradise, rambled a long…Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John
(Encyclopedia) Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. JohnWaugh, Evelyn Arthur St. Johnēvˈlĭn, sĭnˈjən wô [key], 1903–66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation. Educated at Oxford, he…Laibach, Congress of
(Encyclopedia) Laibach, Congress ofLaibach, Congress oflīˈbäkh [key], conference of European powers in 1821, held in what is now Ljubljana, Slovenia. The chief powers at the congress were Russia,…Sussex, kingdom of
(Encyclopedia) Sussex, kingdom of, one of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy (seven kingdoms) in England, located S of the Weald. It was settled in the late 5th cent. (according to tradition in 477) by Saxons…Baruch, book of the Septuagint and of the Apocrypha
(Encyclopedia) Baruch, early Jewish book included in the Septuagint, but not included in the Hebrew Bible and placed in the Apocrypha in the Authorized Version. It is named for a Jewish prince Baruch…William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene II
Scene IIA streetEnter Capulet, Paris, and ServantCapuletBut Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace.ParisOf…William Shakespeare: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
Two loves I have of comfort and despairTwo loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman…Walt Whitman: We Two Boys Together Clinging
We Two Boys Together ClingingWe two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,…Poems by Emily Dickinson: Two swimmers wrestled on the spar
Dying The Chariot XXVI Two swimmers wrestled on the spar Until the morning sun, When one turned smiling to the land. O God, the other one! The stray ships passing spied a face Upon the…