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Novelist Willa Cather, was born Wilella Cather in the village of Back Creek near Winchester, Virginia (1873). The Cathers had a hired g...

The sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky (1809). He was raised on farms in K...

Today is Valentine's Day!  The day on which we celebrate love and especially romantic love. This day is linked to Greco-Roman Fe...

Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass  When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful ...

Yann Martel wrote a big best seller about a boy and a tiger in a lifeboat: Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain (1963). His...

Solitude Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has...

"Mrs. George Reece" by Edgar Lee Masters from Spoon River Anthology Mrs. George Reece  To this generation I would say: ...

Oh! ! beautiful is God’s green earth I When in the gentle Spring  Its flowery beauties leap to birth,  And wild-wood echoes rin...

To Waken an Old Lady Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffe...

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--- Success in Cirrcuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise ...

Karl May: the best German writer you've never heard of A century after his death, the writer – who counted Einstein and Hitler am...

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But...

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi (1897). He grew up listening to stories about his family, including sever...

Café Of those at the table in the café where on winter noons a garden of frost glittered on windowpanes I alone surv...

 Amy Tan, was born in 1952, in Oakland, California. Tan is best known for her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. A first-generation daught...

The whiskey on your breath    Could make a small boy dizzy;    But I hung on like death:    Such waltzing was not easy. We ro...

I think what I will remember more than anything else about David is his distinct laugh and his great sense of humour. He always had a jok...

 Eu·rip·i·des  [yoo-rip-i-deez, yuh-]  Show IPA noun c480–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.  Related forms Eu·rip·i·de·an, adjective.

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

Prayer Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now disce...