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Poems by Emily Dickinson: A Snake

by EmilyDickinsonThe WoodpeckerXXA Snake A Snake Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake; 'T is then we sigh for houses, And our departure take At that enthralling…

Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau was the original Betty Rizzo in Grease on Broadway, and in the 1970s she co-starred on the TV series Maude (1972-76) as a divorced daughter who moves back in with her mother. But it…

Chico Science Biography

Chico Science Brazilian musician Credited with creating the “mangue beat,” an artistic movement named for the mangrove swamps in Recife, a poor Brazilian city, Science was considered the…

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Name at birth: Harriet Elizabeth BeecherHarriet Beecher Stowe was an American reformer and writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a classic of 19th century anti-slavery literature. From an…

Alan Moore

Alan Moore is a celebrated writer of comics and graphic novels whose work includes V for Vendetta (1982, with artist David Lloyd) and Watchmen (1986-87, with artist Dave Gibbons). Moore became a big…

Gene Bossard 1998 Deaths

Gene BossardAge: 80 a Chicago White Sox groundskeeper for 40 years whose infields were dubbed "Bossard's Swamp" because the grass was so wet it slowed down ground balls; after retiring he…

John HAHN, Congress, PA (1776-1823)

HAHN John , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pa., October 30, 1776; attended the common schools; studied medicine and practiced; elected as a…

Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States. Madison is known as the woman who turned the new nation's capital at Washington, D. C. from a dull swamp into…

John RICHARDS, Congress, PA (1753-1822)

RICHARDS John , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Hanover, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 18, 1753; educated under private tutors; served as magistrate during the Revolutionary War…

RICHARDS, John, Congress, PA (1753-1822)

RICHARDS, John, (brother of Matthias Richards), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Hanover, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 18, 1753; educated under private tutors; served as…