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Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps

Drum-TapsFirst O Songs for a PreludeEighteen Sixty-OneBeat! Beat! Drums!From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a BirdSong of the Banner at DaybreakRise O Days from Your Fathomless DeepsVirginia—…

3000-meter Steeplechase

3000-meter Steeplechase Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 3000m steeplechase from 1900 to the present. Year Time Record1900 George Orton, CAN 7:34.4 1904 Jim Lightbody…

Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Stork

by Aesop The Hares and the FrogsThe Wolf in Sheep's ClothingThe Fox and the Stork A Fox invited a Stork to dinner, at which the only fare provided was a large flat dish of soup. The Fox…

Alan Kulwicki

Alan KulwickiBorn: Dec. 14, 1954Auto racer 1992 NASCAR national champion; 1st college grad and Northerner to win title; NASCAR Rookie of Year in 1986; famous for driving car backwards on…

Nicole Reinhart 2000 Deaths

Nicole ReinhartAge: 24 two-time U.S. national track cycling champion killed in an accident during the final lap of the BMC Tour of Arlington (Mass.); nine-time junior national champion; won…

Dean Roper 2001 Deaths

Dean RoperAge: 62 Automobile Racing Club of America driver who died on the 17th lap of the Allen Crowe Memorial, 10 months after his son, Tony, was killed in a NASCAR truck series race; USAC…

Blaise Alexander 2001 Deaths

Blaise AlexanderAge: 25 Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) and NASCAR Busch Series driver killed in a crash involving Kerry Earnhardt, the son of the late Dale Earnhardt, during the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Railway Train

by EmilyDickinsonXVIThe ShowThe Railway Train The Railway Train I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step…

Aesop's Fables: The Fir-Tree and the Bramble

by Aesop The Ass and the Lap-DogThe Frogs' Complaint Against the SunThe Fir-Tree and the Bramble A Fir-tree was boasting to a Bramble, and said, somewhat contemptuously, "You poor creature…