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Gwendolyn Brooks 2000 Deaths

Gwendolyn BrooksAge: 83 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose socio-political works chronicled the 20th century African American experience. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 for…

Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: A Causeway

53 55 A Causeway A RICH Woman having returned from abroad disembarked at the foot of Knee-deep Street, and was about to walk to her hotel through the mud. "Madam," said a Policeman, "I cannot…

The Koran/Sura XXIII — The Believers

Sura XXIII — The Believers MECCA.[386]—118 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful HAPPY now the BELIEVERS, Who humble them in their prayer, And who keep aloof from…

December 2009 Current Events: U.S. News

World News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of December 2009. Obama Sending More Troops to Afghanistan, Provides Timeline (Dec. 1): In a press…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Broad-Axe, Part 3

Part 3The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it, The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for garden, The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the…

El Salvador Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note El Salvador   An indigenous woman creates a flower arrangement for a celebration, Panchimalco, El Salvador, May 6, 2007. [© AP Images]     PROFILE…