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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Introduction

Introduction Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of…

Luther, Martin

(Encyclopedia) Luther, Martin, 1483–1546, German leader of the Protestant Reformation, b. Eisleben, Saxony, of a family of small, but free, landholders. At Wittenberg the iconoclasts under…

Flatland: This World

by Edwin A. Abbott DedicationOther WorldsThis WorldContentsOf the Nature of FlatlandOf the Climate and Houses in FlatlandConcerning the Inhabitants of FlatlandConcerning the WomenOf our…

American History 101?

Compare your wits with the nation's best students by David Johnson Test Conditions The following test was given to a random sampling of 566 college seniors. Only one student answered all 34…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 4

Part 4The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are, The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him, The Secretaries act in their…