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Brewer's: Morgiana

The clever, faithful, female slave of Ali Baba, who pries into the forty jars, and discovers that every jar, but one, contains a man. She takes oil from the only one containing it, and,…

The Sun

All the stars, including our Sun, are gigantic balls of superheated gas, kept hot by atomic reactions in their centers. In our Sun, this atomic reaction is hydrogen fusion: four hydrogen…

Our Top Stories for the Week of May 9, 2022

It's been a busy week, from continued international tensions to further Covid-19 concerns. Who has time to keep track of it all? That's why we've boiled it all down to our top five stories of the…

The Koran/Sura LXXVIII — The News

Sura LXXVIII — The News Mecca — 41 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Of what ask they of one another? Of the great NEWS.[98] The theme of their disputes. Nay!…

Walt Whitman: A Song of Joys

A Song of JoysO to make the most jubilant song! Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.O for the voices of animals—O for the…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 5

Part 5Will the whole come back then? Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more? Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen…

Primary Sources

The Boston Public Library is the oldest major public library in the U.S., and the third largest after the LOC and NYPL. Sometimes you have to go straight to the source. That's why Infoplease has…