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James Poyas, pictured here in a daguerrotype taken shortly before his death in 1850, was one of many Ball men to father children by slaves.The black descendants of Ball slaves interviewed for…Walt Whitman: O Magnet-South
O Magnet-SouthO magnet-south! O glistening perfumed South! my South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me! O dear to me my birth-things—all moving…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Poet, Fragments on the Poet and the Poetic Gift (I)
IThere are beggars in Iran and Araby, SAID was hungrier than all; Hafiz said he was a fly That came to every festival. He came a pilgrim to the Mosque On trail of camel and caravan, Knew…Packer Power
His year began as a horror movie and ended as a fantasy. On May 14, 1996, Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre admitted himself into the Menninger Clinic in Kansas for an addiction to the pain…New England
(Encyclopedia) New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought…22 Lakes in Texas (Biggest, Best, and Why!)
Top of Page Source: iStockDid you know that the Lone Star State is home to more than 7,000 lakes? That’s right! Here are 22 of Texas’s most famous lakes, including the biggest, the best, and the most…William Ellery Leonard: Indian Summer
Indian Summer(After completing a book for one now dead)William Ellery Leonard (O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun, She is not by, to know my task is done.) In the brown grasses slanting…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, July 6, 1806
Day 1494 Day 1496 Lewis, July 6, 1806 July 6th 1806. Set out a little after sunrise passed the creek a little above our encampment. East 14 M. to the point at which the river leaves the…Offbeat National Parks
Looking north over Biscayne Bay at an island (at left) and at mangroves that line the shoreline (at back).Yosemite and Yellowstone are the jewels of our national park system. But you can find plenty…Writing Skills
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