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Gushers: The Texas Oil Boom and Industry
Top of Page Source: iStockThe United States is the world’s largest oil producer. For 150 years, Texas history and the oil and natural gas industry have been inextricably linked. In 2019, around 41%…Little Faithful
Little FaithfulFor a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial…Mother Holle
Mother Holle Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy. The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one…Brewer's: Cresswell
(Madame). A woman of infamous character who bequeathed 10 for a funeral sermon, in which nothing ill should be said of her. The Duke of Buckingham wrote the sermon, which was as follows: “…Of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Mad Tea-Party
by Lewis Carroll Pig and PepperThe Queen's Croquet-GroundA Mad Tea-Party There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at…Walt Whitman: To Think of Time, Part 6
Part 6What will be will be well, for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.The domestic joys, the dally housework or business, the building of…Selected Essays in Black History<cite>by Harriet Beecher Stowe</cite>
Reconstruction Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl by Harriet Beecher Stowe Many years ago, the few readers of radical Abolitionist papers must often have seen the singular name of…The True George Washington: Physique
PhysiqueContemporary DescriptionsWriting to his London tailor for clothes, in 1763, Washington directed him to "take measure of a gentleman who wares well-made cloaths of the following size:…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: February 20, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark February 19, 1806February 21, 1806February 20, 1806 Thursday February 20th 1806. Permited Collins to hunt this morning he returned in the evening…Frederick and Catherine
Frederick and Catherine There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married. One day Frederick said. 'Kate! I am going to work in…Trending
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