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Islamic art and architecture
(Encyclopedia) Islamic art and architecture, works of art and architecture created in countries where Islam has been dominant and embodying Muslim precepts in its themes. Among the ceramic types…The Celtic Twilight: "And Fair, Fierce Women"
by W. B. Yeats Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, VeniEnchanted Woods"And Fair, Fierce Women" One day a woman that I know came face to face with heroic beauty, that highest beauty which Blake says…Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Leap-Frog
The Snow QueenThe ElderbushThe Leap-Frog A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides…Baron Munchausen: An encounter between the Ba...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe In which the Baron proves h... Reflections on Saint Hubert... An encounter between the Ba... An encounter between the Baron's nose and a door-post, with…Poem: Gerontion
Poem 2 Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for…Poems: Rhapsody on a Windy Night
by T. S. Eliot PreludesMorning at the WindowRhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Disolve the…Walt Whitman: There Was a Child Went Forth
There Was a Child Went ForthThere was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain…Walt Whitman: Song at Sunset
Song at SunsetSplendor of ended day floating and filling me, Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past, Inflating my throat, you divine average, You earth and life till the last ray gleams I…Science News: Close Encounter with a Second Sun
Russian meteor causes shock, awe, and injury Meteor trace over Chelyabinsk, Russia. Source: Nikita Plekhanov via Wikimedia Commons Related Links Meteorites from Mars 2013…Hispanic American Scientists
// Cite Ellen Ochoa Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Franklin Chang-Dìaz, astronaut Mario Molina, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Carlos Noriega, astronaut Ellen…Trending
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