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Pink

Name at birth: Alecia MoorePink -- or "P!nk" -- is the stage name of Alecia Moore, the feisty Philadelphia singer whose 2000 debut album Can't Take Me Home scored her first top-10 hit, "There You Go…

Julius Rosenwald Biography

Julius Rosenwaldmerchant, retail executive, philanthropistBorn: 8/12/1862Birthplace: Springfield, Ill. Having successfully run a Chicago store specializing in men's fashions (1885–95),…

Keith Piper Biography

Keith PiperAge: 76 Division III football coach whose Denison University teams were the last in the nation to run the single-wing offense more than 40 years after it went out of fashion;…

Gianni Versace 1997 Deaths

Gianni VersaceAge: 50 fashion designer A designer to the stars, Versace brought vitality and art to an industry considered out of touch with the street. Though he started designing clothing…

Amy Lowell: The Green Bowl

The Green BowlThis little bowl is like a mossy pool In a Spring wood, where dogtooth violets grow Nodding in chequered sunshine of the trees; A quiet place, still, with the sound of birds,…

Walt Whitman: Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood

Thou Mother with Thy Equal BroodThou Mother with thy equal brood, Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only, A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest, For thee…

John Donne: A Jet Ring Sent

A Jet Ring SentThou art not so black as my heart, Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art; What would'st thou say? shall both our properties by thee be spoke, —Nothing more…

Aesop's Fables: The Wily Lion

by Aesop Mercury and the Man Bitten by an AntThe Parrot and the CatThe Wily Lion A Lion watched a fat Bull feeding in a meadow, and his mouth watered when he thought of the royal feast he…