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Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gift List

If you're a traditionalist at heart, you might be searching for just the right gift for your spouse or favorite couple. Look no further.  But how did the tradition of wedding anniversary gifts…

Brewer's: Posy

properly means a copy of verses presented with a bouquet. It now means the verses without the flowers, as the “posy of a ring,” or the flowers without the verses, as a “pretty posy.” “He…

classic revival

(Encyclopedia) classic revival, widely diffused phase of taste (known as neoclassic) which influenced architecture and the arts in Europe and the United States during the last years of the 18th and…

40 Best Christmas Movie Quotes

Top of Page Christmas is a magical time — perhaps you’ll go ice skating, decorate the Christmas tree, bake cookies, and especially, watch holiday films. Christmas memories are made every year, and…

Lights! Camera! Learning! - British Literature

The best of British literature Paltrow's winsome matchmaker Emma Recent film offerings suggest the enduring appeal of Jane Austen's storytelling. In the past few years, we've been wowed by…

Real Essay Gaffes

  "Proofread! Have others proofread! Spell check! It's stunning how many people have careless, even really obvious typos in their statements. It makes the applicant look sloppy,…

Mamet's <i>Boy</i> Wonder

An Interview with playwright and filmmaker David Mamet by Peter Keough Related Links The Winslow Boy: Official SiteSony Pictures ClassicsThe only constants, it would seem, in the creative world of…

Alcott, Louisa May

(Encyclopedia) Alcott, Louisa May, 1832–88, American author, b. Germantown, Pa.; daughter of Bronson Alcott. Mostly educated by her father, she was a friend of Emerson and Thoreau, and her first book…