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Poem: Dawn

Poem 16 Poem 18 Dawn When night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It 's time to smooth the hair And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care…

Dawn Fraser

Dawn FraserBorn: Sept. 4, 1937Australian swimmer won gold medals in 100m freestyle at 3 consecutive Olympics (1956,60,64).Bill France Sr.D - FJoe Frazier

Dawn (U.S.)

Destination: Vesta and Ceres. Launch: June 20, 2007. Arrival: Sept. 2011 (Vesta), 2015 (Ceres). Mission: To examine two of the largest asteroids and study the formation and evolution of…

Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the

(Encyclopedia) Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, occult-oriented fraternal organization established by the Freemasons in England (1888), led by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1854–1917). The order's…

Powell, Dawn

(Encyclopedia) Powell, Dawn, 1896–1965, American novelist, b. Mt. Gilead, Ohio. She came to New York City in 1918 and settled several years later in Greenwich Village, where she spent most of the…

Dawn Steel Biography

Dawn Steelfilm executive In an industry long dominated by men, Steel was the first woman to head a major movie studio. During her tenure at Paramount and later Columbia Studios, she oversaw…

The Devil's Dictionary: Dawn

by Ambrose Bierce DATARYDAYDAWN -n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and…

The Dawning of the Space Age

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union put the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into Earth orbit and ushered in the modern space age. Sputnik (“traveling companion”) was…

White, Stewart Edward

(Encyclopedia) White, Stewart Edward, 1873–1946, American author, b. Grand Rapids, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1895. The stories collected in The Claim Jumpers (1901) and The Blazed Trail (1902)…