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Aesop's Fables: The Ass and the Lap-Dog

by Aesop The Fox and the MonkeyThe Fir-Tree and the BrambleThe Ass and the Lap-Dog There was once a man who had an Ass and a Lap-dog. The Ass was housed in the stable with plenty of oats…

1980 Winter Olympics

Lake Placid Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsled Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Skiing Speed Skating Eric and…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 49

Part 49And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes, I see the elder-hand pressing receiving…

Walt Whitman: The City Dead-House

The City Dead-HouseBy the city dead-house by the gate, As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought, Her corpse…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: IV

IVThe civil world will much forgive To bards who from its maxims live, But if, grown bold, the poet dare Bend his practice to his prayer And following his mighty heart Shame the times and…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Monody

by Robert Burns The Flowery Banks Of CreeThe EpitaphMonody On a lady famed for her Caprice. How cold is that bosom which folly once fired, How pale is that cheek where the…

Major Bouts, 1997-98: Minimumweights (105 lbs)

(Strawweights or Mini-Flyweights)DateWinnerLoserResultTitleSiteDec. 19Eric JamiliMickey CantwellTKO 8WBOMillwall, ENGDec. 27Zolani PeteloR. Sow VoraphinTKO 4IBFSongkhla, THAIMar. 7Ricardo…

1985–1986 Obie Awards

Distinguished PlaywritingWallace Shawn, Aunt Dan and LemonEric BogosianArchive PhotosPlaywritingEric Bogosian, Drinking in AmericaMartha Clarke, Vienna: LusthausJohn Jesurun, Deep…

Kiss Biography

Kissrock group They have been dismissed by critics, who have almost universally panned them, but through their many permutations, Kiss has had a faithful legion of fans (known as the Kiss…