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The Question: What is the term for the carved decorative feminine figure found on the bow of wooden ships? The Answer: Those are called…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Devotees, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III At a time, when my unpopularity with a part of my readers had reached the nadir of its glory, and my name had become the central orb of the journals, to be…Amy Lowell: Part First
Part FirstFrau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, and scattered leaves before Her on the clean, flagged path. The sky…Of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: The Queen's Croquet-Ground
by Lewis Carroll A Mad Tea-PartyThe Mock Turtle's StoryThe Queen's Croquet-Ground A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there…The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis
Hiawatha's Childhood Hiawatha's Fasting Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all the…Sara Teasdale: Winter Dusk
Winter DuskI watch the great clear twilight Veiling the ice-bowed trees; Their branches tinkle faintly With crystal melodies.The larches bend their silver Over the hush of snow; One star…The Devil's Dictionary: Machination
by Ambrose Bierce MACEMACROBIANMACHINATION -n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing. So plain the advantages of…R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Warner Brothers Combining studio recordings and live material from an especially grueling world tour, this album is R.E.M.'s travelogue, exploring themes of self-doubt,…The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
CHAPTER ONE: THE CYCLONE by L. Frank Baum DOROTHY LIVED IN THE MIDST of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Initial Love
The Initial LoveVenus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces and parks, And told the truant by his marks,— Golden curls, and quiver and bow. This befell…Trending
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