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Lewis Carroll: Fame’s Penny-Trumpet

Fame’s Penny-TrumpetAffectionately dedicated to all “original researchers” who pant for “endowment.”Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them…

A Parody

Appendix A Parody "Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell How pious priests whip Jack and Nell, And women buy and children sell, And preach all sinners down to hell, And sing of heavenly…

2002 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review. The winners were announced Dec. 4, 2002…

King Clancy Memorial Trophy

Awarded to the player who “best exemplifies leadership on and off the ice and who has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution to his community” and named after former player, coach,…

Goodbye Barkley

NBA star Charles Barkley calls it quits. by Mike Morrison Charles Barkley after his career-ending accident on Dec. 8, 1999. "I guess the big fella in the sky wanted me to finish right where I…

A Not-So-Traditional Thanksgiving, Part 2

Part 2: Voice of Native Americans by Neil Miller The campaign to make a regional holiday into a national celebration was realized on October 3, 1863, when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed…

The World's Most Notorious Despots, Part 4

The World's Most Notorious Despots by Borgna Brunner Top Ten Despots TamerlaneIvan the TerribleRobespierreJoseph StalinAdolph HitlerMao ZedongFrancois DuvalierNicolae CeausescuIdi…

Al Sharpton, Jr. Biography

Al Sharpton, Jr. civil rights activist and ministerBorn: Oct. 3, 1954Birthplace: New York, N.Y. A flamboyant and controversial African American political activist, Sharpton was fully ordained…

1998 Gramophone Awards

Record of the Year and ChoralMartin, Pizzetti, Die Schöpfung, Westminster Cathedral Choir/James O'Donnell (Hyperion)Editor's ChoiceThomas Adès, Adès: Arcadiana Op. 12. The origin of the harp…