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The Seasons

The seasons are caused by the tilt of Earth's axis (23.4°) and not by the fact that Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse. The average distance of Earth from the Sun is 93 million miles; the…

William Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, Act I

Act IScene IAntechamber in Leontes' palaceEnter Camillo and ArchidamusArchidamusIf you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you…

Federal Taxing Power Must be Restrained

Federal Taxing Power Must be RestrainedAbstractGeorge Mason of Virginia opposed the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights, and centralized powers further than he felt it necessary.…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Old House

The BellThe Happy FamilyThe Old House In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house - it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on…

The Pivot of Civilization: Science the Ally

by Margaret Sanger A Moral NecessityEducation and ExpressionScience the Ally "There is but one hope. Ignorance, poverty, and vice must stop populating the world. This cannot be…