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Poems by Emily Dickinson: Unwarned

by EmilyDickinsonDeathXVUnwarned Unwarned 'T is sunrise, little maid, hast thou No station in the day? 'T was not thy wont to hinder so, — Retrieve thine industry. 'T is noon, my…

Lessing, Doris

(Encyclopedia) Lessing, Doris, 1919–2013, British novelist, b. Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Tayler. Largely self-educated, she was brought up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now…

Mendelssohn, Felix

(Encyclopedia) Mendelssohn, Felix (Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn)Mendelssohn, Felixmĕnˈdəlsən, Ger. yäˈkôp l&oobreve;tˈvĭkh fāˈlĭks mĕnˈdəls-zōnˌ [key], 1809–47, German composer; grandson of the…

2006 Brit Awards

The 2006 Brit Awards were presented February 18, 2006. British Male Solo Artist James Blunt British Female Solo Artist KT Tunstall…

Common manifestations of schizophrenia

Disturbances of perception and thought process fall into a broad category of symptoms referred to as psychosis. The threshold for determining whether thought is impaired varies somewhat with the…

2006 MTV Music Video Awards

The 2006 Video Music Awards were presented August 31, 2006. Video of the Year Panic! At the Disco, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies…

Brewer's: Blunderbuss

A short gun with a large bore. (Dutch, donderbus, a thunder-tube.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BluntBlunderbore A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…

Rumsfeld, Donald Henry

(Encyclopedia) Rumsfeld, Donald Henry, 1932–2021, American government official, b. Chicago, Princeton Univ. (B.A., 1954). After graduating college,…

cicada

(Encyclopedia) cicadacicadasĭkāˈdə [key], large, noise-producing insect of the order Homoptera, with a stout body, a wide, blunt head, protruding eyes, and two pairs of membranous wings. The front…