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(Encyclopedia) poster, placard designed to be posted in some public place for purposes of commercial announcement or propaganda. Advertising makes wide use of posters, as do charitable and political…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Redwood-Tree, Part 1

Part 1A California song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air, A chorus of dryads, fading, departing, or hamadryads departing, A murmuring, fateful, giant voice…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 27, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 26, 1806June 28, 1806June 27, 1806 Friday June 27th 1806. We collected our horses early and set out. the road still continued on the heights…

Barnum, P. T.

(Encyclopedia) Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor Barnum)Barnum, P. T.fĭnˈēəs, bärˈnəm [key], 1810–91, American showman, b. Bethel, Conn. As a youth Barnum worked at diverse sales jobs and managed a…

The Devil's Dictionary: Half

by Ambrose Bierce HAGHALOHALF -n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists…

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Marian Wright EdelmanJohn EdwardsJohn EhrlichmanMamie Geneva Doud EisenhowerEleanor of AquitaineJoycelyn Jones EldersDaniel EllsbergOlaudah EquianoMarch Fong EuDonald EvansMedgar EversMyrlie…

Maryland Farmer VII

Maryland Farmer VII11 April 1788by Thus it is that barbarity—cruelty and blood which stain the history of religion, spring from the corruption of civil government, and from that never-dying…

Walter Wager 2004 Deaths

Walter WagerAge: 79 spy novelist who wrote more than 30 books, including 58 Minutes, which was adapted for film and released as Die Hard, and Teflon, which also became a film. Died: New York…