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Walt Whitman: I Was Looking a Long While

I Was Looking a Long WhileI was looking a long while for Intentions, For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it, It is not in those…

Richard Hovey: The Thought of her

The Thought of herRichard HoveyMy love for thee doth take me unaware, When most with lesser things my brain is wrought, As in some nimble interchange of thought The silence enters, and the…

Latin Abbreviations

The Question: Can the abbreviations i.e. and e.g. be used interchangably? If not, why not? I have always used them to mean "as an example," or "for example". The Answer: Thanks for e-mailing…

Edward Goodrich Acheson

Edward Goodrich Acheson Born: 1856 Birthplace: Washington, Penn. Carborundum—Carborundum is the hardest surface made by…

Early Military Developments

Early Military Developments Before 1914 militaries used airplanes mostly for surveying of enemy territory. (In 1913, the U.S. Army had only six active pilots and the fledgling U.S.…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 7

Part 7Here is the efflux of the soul, The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions, These yearnings why are they? these thoughts in the…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: LXIV

Sonnet LXIII Sonnet LXV LXIV When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd, And brass eternal slave…

World's First Skyjacking

The Question: When did the first case of hijacking occur? The Answer: We assume you're wondering about airplanes. In that case, the more…