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Aesop's Fables: The Swallow and the Crow

by Aesop Prometheus and the Making of ManThe Hunter and the HorsemanThe Swallow and the Crow A Swallow was once boasting to a Crow about her birth. "I was once a princess," said she, "the…

William Shakespeare: King John, Act IV, Scene II

Scene IIKing John's palaceEnter King John, Pembroke, Salisbury, and other LordsKing JohnHere once again we sit, once again crown'd, And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.PembrokeThis '…

Aesop's Fables: The Crab and His Mother

by Aesop The Boasting TravellerThe Ass and His ShadowThe Crab and His Mother An Old Crab said to her son, "Why do you walk sideways like that, my son? You ought to walk straight." The…

Nidal Malik Hasan

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is the U.S. Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian in a shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas on 5 November 2009. Hasan was born in Virginia to…

Tao Te Ching: Chapter 46

Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi, trans. James Legge Chapter 45 Chapter 47 Chapter 46 1 When the Tao prevails in the world, they send back their swift horses to (draw) the dung-carts. When…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Test

The Test(Musa loquitur.) I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot…

T.R. Knight

Name at birth: Theodore Raymond KnightT.R. Knight's acting breakthrough came with the success of TV's Grey's Anatomy, a medical drama that first aired in the spring of 2005. As the well-meaning but…

William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act III, Scene III

Scene IIIA room in the castleEnter King Claudius, Rosencrantz, and GuildensternKing ClaudiusI like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you; I your…

Daniel: 6

Daniel Chapter 6 1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 2 And over these three presidents; of whom…