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Donna Hanover, 2000 News

actress, broadcast journalist, and wife of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, announced in April plans to appear in the controversial Off-Broadway play by Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues.…

Top Ten Most Influential Feminist Books

Some books that have been influential on feminism and the women's movement. The Second Sex original French edition by Simone de Beauvoir Related Links Women's History Month…

The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, 1866

ContentsThe Prince's ProgressMaiden-SongJessie CameronSpring QuietThe Poor GhostA PortraitDream-LoveTwiceSongs in a CornfieldA Year's WindfallsThe Queen of HeartsOne DayA Bird's-Eye ViewLight…

Recommended Online Poetry Collections

Poetry resources and poetry in the public domain compiled by David Johnson Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us…

The Devil's Dictionary: Respond

by Ambrose Bierce RESPLENDENTRESPONSIBILITYRESPOND -v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external…

heredity

(Encyclopedia) heredity, transmission from generation to generation through the process of reproduction in plants and animals of factors which cause the offspring to resemble their parents. That like…

Veronese, Paolo

(Encyclopedia) Veronese, PaoloVeronese, Paolopäˈōlō vārōnāˈzā [key], 1528–88, Italian painter of the Venetian school. Named Paolo Caliari, he was called Il Veronese from his birthplace, Verona.…

Rodin, Auguste

(Encyclopedia) Rodin, AugusteRodin, Augusteōgüstˈ rōdăNˈ [key], 1840–1917, French sculptor, b. Paris. He began his art study at 14 in the Petite École and in the school of Antoine Barye, earning his…