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Edith M. Thomas: Winter Sleep
Winter SleepEdith M. ThomasI know it must be winter (though I sleep) — I know it must be winter, for I dream I dip my bare feet in the running stream, And flowers are many, and the grass…Edith M. Thomas: The Inverted Torch
The Inverted TorchEdith M. ThomasThreading a darksome passage all alone, The taper's flame, by envious current blown, Crouched low, and eddied round, as in affright, So challenged by the vast…M. Scott Peck 2005 Deaths
M. Scott PeckAge: 69 psychiatrist and author who wrote one of the first self-help books The Road Less Traveled. The book has spent 694 weeks on the bestseller list. Died: Warren, Conn., Sept…John M. Karr, 2006 News
schoolteacher, was arrested in Bangkok in August in connection with the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Karr, in front of a throng of reporters, said, “I was with JonBenet when…John M. Ford 2006 Deaths
John M. FordAge: 49 author who wrote several science fiction and fantasy novels and numerous poems and short stories. His work often drew upon, and played with the conventions of, multiple…Sassetta
(Encyclopedia) SassettaSassettasäs-sĕtˈtä [key], c.1400–1450, Italian painter of the Sienese school, whose original name was Stefano di Giovanni. A popular artist, he painted many large altarpieces,…Fallen Timbers
(Encyclopedia) Fallen Timbers, battle fought in 1794 between tribes of the Northwest Territory and the U.S. army commanded by Anthony Wayne; it took place in NW Ohio at the rapids of the Maumee River…Canandaigua
(Encyclopedia) Canandaigua Canandaigua kănəndāˈgwə [key], city (2020 pop. 10,576), seat of Ontario co., W central N.Y…Blatch, Harriet Stanton
(Encyclopedia) Blatch, Harriet Stanton (Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch), 1856–1940, American labor reformer and woman suffrage leader, b. Seneca Falls, N.Y. A daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady…Montgomery, L. M.
(Encyclopedia) Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud Montgomery), 1874–1942, Canadian novelist, b. Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), met with immediate success and has been…Trending
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