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British (Wimbledon) Champions

(Amateur from inception in 1877 through 1967)Singles—Men1877 Spencer Gore 1878 Frank Hadow 1879–80John Hartley 1881–86Willie Renshaw 1887 Herbert Lawford 1888 Ernest Renshaw 1889 Willie…

May 2005

WorldInsurgents Continue Series of Attacks (May 1): At least 35 Iraqis die in bombings in Mosul and Baghdad. Insurgent attacks have intensified since formation of new government in late April…

William Shakespeare: Richard II, Act V

Act VScene ILondon. A street leading to the TowerEnter Queen and LadiesQueenThis way the king will come; this is the way To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower, To whose flint bosom my…

Epidemics of the Past: Bubonic Plague

Bubonic PlagueEpidemics of the PastSmallpox: 12,000 Years of TerrorBubonic PlagueInfluenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies, Ashes … ashes, We all…

Chauncey Judd: Wooster's Well

David Wooster's Search for the Fugitives Wooster's Well Meanwhile, how passed the time with their prisoner in his place of confinement? Let our young readers imagine it, for it is…

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence

RenascenceEdna St. Vincent MillayAll I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I…