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Aesop's Fables: The Moon and her Mother

by Aesop The Old Woman and the DoctorMercury and the WoodmanThe Moon and her Mother The Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown. "How can I?" replied she; "there's no fitting your…

Baron Munchausen: A Second Trip to the Moon.

by Rudolph Erich Raspe Voyage eastward-The Baron i... The Baron crosses the Thame...A Second Trip to the Moon. A second visit (but an accidental one) to the moon-The ship driven…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Waning Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Autumn: A DirgeTo the MoonThe Waning Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. And like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapped in…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: To the Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The IsleEpitaphFragment: To the Moon Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven, To whom alone it has been…

Brewer's: Setting of Sun, Moon, and Stars

Their sinking below the horizon. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Setting the Thames on FireSetting of Plaster A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

(Encyclopedia) Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896–1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928, when she moved to the Florida backwoods,…

Alberti, Rafael

(Encyclopedia) Alberti, RafaelAlberti, Rafaelräfäĕlˈ [key]Alberti, Rafael älbĕrˈtē [key], 1902–99, Spanish poet. After abandoning an earlier career as a painter, Alberti published his first book,…

Thousand and One Nights

(Encyclopedia) Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights, series of anonymous stories in Arabic, considered as an entity to be among the classics of world literature. The cohesive plot device…

Turner, Ted

(Encyclopedia) Turner, Ted (Robert Edward Turner 3d), 1938–, American television network executive, b. Cincinnati. After inheriting his father's billboard company, he founded (1976) a television…