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Laurence Yep Biography

Laurence YepnovelistBorn: 6/14/1948Birthplace: San Francisco Yep has won several awards for his novels for young adults. His books often deal with alienation, drawing on his own experiences…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Charles I Scene 5

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Scene 4: Scene 5: ARCHY: I'll go live under the ivy that overgrows the terrace, and count the tears shed on its old [roots?] as the [wind?] plays the song of 'A widow…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 14, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 13, 1805April 15, 1805April 14, 1805 Sunday April 14th 1805. One of the hunters saw an Otter last evening and shot at it, but missed it.…

The Devil's Dictionary: Meerschaum

by Ambrose Bierce MEEKNESSMENDACIOUSMEERSCHAUM -n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Aziola

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet: Political GreatnessA LamentThe Aziola Published by Mrs. Shelley in "The Keepsake", 1829. 1. 'Do you not hear the Aziola cry? Methinks she must be nigh,'…

Handwriting

Author:Michael OndaatjePublisher:Knopf Michael Ondaatje is the man who put Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in the desert. His prize-winning novel, The English Patient, was adapted…

John Keats: Ode on Melancholy

by John Keats To AutumnOde on Melancholy No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd…

David Letterman

David Letterman was a late-night TV show host for more than 30 years. His show Late Night With David Letterman premiered in 1982 on NBC, where it followed the famed Tonight Show hosted by Johnny…

George David AIKEN, Congress, VT (1892-1984)

Senate Years of Service: 1941-1975 Party: Republican AIKEN George David , a Senator from Vermont; born in Dummerston, Windham County, Vt., August 20, 1892; moved with his parents to Putney, Vt.,…