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Sounds Like Shakespeare, But Is It?
The Question: I have heard the phrase attributed to Shakespeare, "Of all the flowers/the rose is the best/" but I don't know where it comes from…Sounds Like a Broken Record
Donovan Bailey (right) leads Michael Johnson by a smidgen as the two come of the turn at their 1997 race to determine “Who is the world's fastest man?” at Toronto's SkyDome.Wide World Photos…Tales from Shakespeare: As You Like It
As You Like It During the time that France was divided into provinces (or dukedoms, as they were called) there reigned in one of these provinces a usurper who had deposed and banished his…Walt Whitman: Earth, My Likeness
Earth, My LikenessEarth, my likeness, Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is not all; I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst…Walt Whitman: That Shadow My Likeness
That Shadow My LikenessThat shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits, How…Sara Teasdale: "Like Barley Bending"
"Like Barley Bending"Like barley bending In low fields by the sea, Singing in hard wind Ceaselessly;Like barley bending And rising again, So would I, unbroken, Rise from pain;So would I…Classical Mythology: No Place Like Home?
No Place Like Home?Classical MythologyCrimes of Passion: Jason, Medea, and the ArgonautsAssembling the ArgonautsIn Search of AdventureWitch Way to the Golden FleeceCrime and Punishment: The Long Way…Weather: There's No Place Like Home
There's No Place Like HomeWeatherThere's No Place Like HomeThunderstormsDoing the TwistThe ChaseStaying Safe in a Storm Although the mesoscale level of weather action is small in stature, it…Brewer's: Water Tasting like Wine
Pliny (ii. 103) tells us of a fountain in the Isle of Andros, in the temple of Bacchus, which every year, on January 5th, tasted like wine.…William Shakespeare: As You Like It, Act I
Act IScene IOrchard of Oliver's houseEnter Orlando and AdamOrlandoAs I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged…Trending
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