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Bob Dylan

Love and TheftColumbia Four years after the release of the acclaimed, if frankly overrated Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan has returned with a far better album. Tracing the roots of American folk…

Boxing Summary

History of World Heavyweight Championship Fights (WBC, WBA, IBF)Other World Boxing TitleholdersCURRENT WORLD CHAMPIONS Whether it be called pugilism, prize fighting, or boxing, there is no…

Horse Racing Summary

“Triple Crown” Winners in the United StatesKentucky DerbyPreakness StakesBelmont Stakes Ancient drawings on stone and bone prove that horse racing is at least 3,000 years old, but…

Poems: The Little Girl Found

by WilliamBlakeThe Little Girl LostThe Chimney SweeperThe Little Girl Found All the night in woe Lyca's parents go Over valleys deep, While the deserts weep. Tired and woe-…

The Devil's Dictionary: K

by Ambrose Bierce JLK K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero…

Robert Graves: The Bough of Nonsense

The Bough of NonsenseAn IdyllBack from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand years This Summer, and I'm nine parts dead." R. "…

George Cabot Lodge: Trumbull Stickney

Trumbull StickneyGeorge Cabot LodgeIIn silence, solitude and stern surmise His faith was tried and proved commensurate With life and death. The stone-blind eyes of Fate Perpetually stared…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 16, 1804

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 15, 1804June 17, 1804June 16, 1804 16th June Satterday Set out at 7 oClock Proceed on N. 68°W. 21/2 ms. passed a Isd. close on the S. S. at…