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The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Sailing

Hiawatha's Friends Hiawatha's Fishing Hiawatha's Sailing "Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in…

The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Fishing

Hiawatha's Sailing Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather Hiawatha's Fishing Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark…

The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry W. Longfellow Henry W. Longfellow Contents Introductory Note Introduction The Peace-Pipe The Four Winds Hiawatha's Childhood Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis Hiawatha's Fasting…

The Song of Hiawatha: Introductory Note

Introduction Introductory Note The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern…

The Song of Hiawatha: Introduction

Introductory Note Introduction Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the…

Sports Personalities

Information has been gathered from many sources, including the individuals themselves. However, the almanac cannot guarantee the accuracy of every individual item.Aaron, Hank Abbott, Jim Abdul-…

Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

(Encyclopedia) Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and VauxBrougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vauxbr&oomacr;m, vôz, vôks [key], 1778–1868, British statesman, b. Edinburgh. As a…

Largillière, Nicolas de

(Encyclopedia) Largillière, Nicolas deLargillière, Nicolas denēkôläˈ də lärzhēlyĕrˈ [key], 1656–1746, French portrait and history painter, b. Paris. He was brought up in Antwerp, and the influence of…

Rogers, John, American sculptor

(Encyclopedia) Rogers, John, 1829–1904, American sculptor, b. Salem, Mass. Trained as an engineer, he was forced by failing eyesight to work as a machinist. He began modeling in clay as a pastime and…