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Amy Lowell: A Fairy Tale

A Fairy TaleOn winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before our eyes We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone Uprear…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Fir Tree

The Shoes of FortuneThe Snow QueenThe Fir Tree Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Story of a Mother

The Happy FamilyThe False CollarThe Story of a Mother A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die! It was so pale, the small eyes had closed…

Jefferson, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Jefferson, Joseph, 1829–1905, American actor. He was the foremost of an old and distinguished family of English and American actors. Jefferson began his stage career as a child actor,…

nuclear winter

(Encyclopedia) nuclear winter, theory holding that the smoke and dust produced by a large nuclear war would result in a prolonged period of cold on the earth. The earliest version of the theory,…

Winter Park

(Encyclopedia) Winter Park, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 22,242), Orange co., central Fla., just N of Orlando in a citrus area; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1887. It is the seat of Rollins…

Winter, William

(Encyclopedia) Winter, William, 1836–1917, American drama critic, biographer, and poet, b. Gloucester, Mass., grad. Harvard Law School, 1857. A member of the literary bohemians who met in Pfaff's…

winter cress

(Encyclopedia) winter cress or upland cress, species of Barbarea, herbs of the family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae; mustard family). The pungent leaves of several species have been used for salads or…

Winter Haven

(Encyclopedia) Winter Haven, resort city (1990 pop. 24,725), Polk co., central Fla; settled 1883. It is a marketing, processing, and shipping center for one of the state's chief citrus-fruit regions…