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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days

DaysDaughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts…

Norman Rockwell

American artist Norman Rockwell is known for his witty and heartwarming covers for The Saturday Evening Post. He did 322 covers for the popular magazine from 1916 through 1963: paintings of…

Brian Aldiss

Name at birth: Brian Wilson AldissBrian Aldiss was a British writer known mostly for his science fiction stories and the many anthologies he edited. He grew up writing stories, but he didn't turn to…

Amanda Peet

Amanda Peet is a brilliantly blue-eyed actress who rose to fame with a five-year string of TV and movie roles beginning in 1996. These included TV guest turns on Law & Order and Seinfeld (as…

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph L. Mankiewiczdirector, screenwriter, producerBorn: 2/11/1909Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer who directed Dragonwyck (1946…

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Biography

Joseph L. Mankiewiczdirector, screenwriter, producerBorn: 2/11/1909Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer who directed Dragonwyck (1946…

Rod Steiger

Name at birth: Rodney SteigerRod Steiger won the 1967 Academy Award for playing a bigoted Mississippi cop opposite Sidney Poitier's black Philadelphia cop in the film In the Heat of the Night.…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Snake

by EmilyDickinsonIn the GardenThe MushroomThe Snake The Snake A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him, — did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass…

Robert Evans

Name at birth: Robert ShaperaIn the 1970s Bob Evans was the movie producer responsible for some of the biggest box office successes of the era, including Rosemary's Baby (1968, directed by Roman…