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Black Hawk War
(Encyclopedia) Black Hawk War, conflict between the Sac and Fox and the United States in 1832. After the War of 1812, whites settling the Illinois country exerted pressure on the Native Americans. A…North, Frederick North, 8th Baron
(Encyclopedia) North, Frederick North, 8th Baron, 1732–92, British statesman, best known as Lord North. He entered Parliament in 1754 and became a junior lord of the treasury (1759), privy councilor…Jo's Boys: Chapter 2 — Parnassus
ParnassusIt was well named; and the Muses seemed to be at home that day, for as the newcomers went up the slope appropriate sights and sounds greeted them. Passing an open window, they looked…Robert Graves: A Boy in Church
A Boy in Church"Gabble-gabble,... brethren,... gabble-gabble!" My window frames forest and heather. I hardly hear the tuneful babble, Not knowing nor much caring whether The text is…Mamet's <i>Boy</i> Wonder
An Interview with playwright and filmmaker David Mamet by Peter Keough Related Links The Winslow Boy: Official SiteSony Pictures ClassicsThe only constants, it would seem, in the creative world of…Walt Whitman: To a Western Boy
To a Western BoyMany things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine; Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins, If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently…Poems: The Little Black Boy
by WilliamBlakeThe LambThe BlossomThe Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child,…Poems: A Little Boy Lost
by WilliamBlakeA Poison TreeA Little Girl LostA Little Boy Lost "Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to…A Boy's Will: Into My Own
by Robert Frost Ghost HouseInto My Own The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world. ONE of my wishes is that those dark trees, So…A Boy's Will: A Prayer in Spring
by Robert Frost To the Thawing WindFlower-gatheringA Prayer in Spring He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking thoughts; OH, give us pleasure in the flowers…Trending
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