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Talisa Soto

Brooklyn-born Talisa Soto was a groundbreaking Puerto Rican model for international fashion magazines in the late 1980s. She turned that into a movie career, most notably as a "Bond girl" in 1989's…

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is the central figure and hero of the Assyro-Babylonian myth The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story written on clay tablets that is considered to be the earliest known literary work. Gilgamesh was…

Best Child-Rearing States

The Question: I'm looking for information about what cities are best for raising children. Do you have any ideas? The Answer: Not…

The Celtic Twilight: The Untiring Ones

by W. B. Yeats KidnappersEarth, Fire and WaterThe Untiring Ones It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy…

Compendium of U.S. Statistics

Find data here on the U.S. economy, population, births, deaths, poverty, crime, and more.   Profile of the United States Population Household and Family Statistics Marital Status…

The World's Fastest Growing Countries

Rapid population growth in the 21st century The world's population is quickly closing in on eight million people and this has caused a huge amount of concern amongst scientists and environmentalists…

Arthur Upson: Euchenor Chorus

Euchenor ChorusArthur Upson(From "The City")Of old it went forth to Euchenor, pronounced of his sire — Reluctant, impelled by the god's unescapable fire — To choose for his doom or to perish…

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto XXI

Paradiso: Canto XXParadiso: Canto XXIIParadiso: Canto XXI Already on my Lady's face mine eyes Again were fastened, and with these my mind, And from all other purpose was withdrawn;…