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St. Midas' School is half an hour from Boston in a Rolls-Pierce motorcar. The actual distance will never be known, for no one, except J...

Pioneers! O Pioneers! COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? Have you your sharp-...

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706). Books were hard to come by when he was a young apprentice in his brother's printing shop, ...

Trust Yourself Trust yourself, Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best. Trust yourself, Trust yourself to do what...

It was on this day in 1901 that the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. The first prize in literature went to Sully Prudhomme, who wrote melanc...

*Halcyon Days Not from successful love alone, Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war; But as life wan...

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota (1896). In April of 1920, at the age of 23, he published his first novel, This Side of...

Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere. Go tell it on the mountain, to set my people free. Who's that yonder dressed ...

To Helen (1831) Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wandere...

The novelist Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri (1851). Her father was one of the founders of the Pacific ...

Robert Penn Warren (1905- 1989) on Hemingway (1899-1961) : Hemingway’s heroes are not squealers, welchers, compromisers, or cowards, and ...

American writer Truman Capote was born in New Orleans (1924). Even as a child, Capote wanted to become famous. He moved with his mother to...

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri (1928), the author of six autobiographical volumes, including I Know...

The Apology Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not...

Poet E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1894). He was a man who wrote joyful, almost childlike p...

since feeling is first since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be...

American poet Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, in 1868. Masters grew up in the small town of Lewiston, Illinois, in the Spoon ...

"You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song first recorded in 1939. It has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana. Words an...

As the new world opened up and exotic specimens and curiosities were brought back from faraway lands a new thirst for knowledge of traveller...

Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy, residing between the Ape...