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Horse Racing Summary: Preakness Stakes

Pimlico; 3-year-olds; 13/16 mi The following table lists names of the winning horses and jockeys at the Preakness Stakes from 1873 to the present. In 2009, Rachel…

Congo (Kinshasa) Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Democratic Republic of the Congo Index: Geography People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Congolese Relations…

Plays at Plumfield

Plays at PlumfieldAs it is as impossible for the humble historian of the March family to write a story without theatricals in it as for our dear Miss Yonge to get on with less than twelve or…

John F. Kennedy (January 14, 1963)

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the 88th Congress: I congratulate you all—not merely on your electoral victory but on your selected role in history. For you and I are privileged to…

The Koran/Sura XVI — The Bee

Sura XVI — The BeeMecca — 128 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful THE doom of God cometh to pass. Then hasten it not. Glory be to Him! High let Him be exalted above…

cosmology

(Encyclopedia) cosmology, area of science that aims at a comprehensive theory of the structure and evolution of the entire physical universe. The earliest pre-Ptolemaic theories assumed that the…

John Keats: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil

by John Keats LamiaThe Eve of St. AgnesIsabella; or, The Pot of Basil A Story from Boccaccio Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could…