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Walt Whitman: Song of the Broad-Axe, Part 9

Part 9(America! I do not vaunt my love for you, I have what I have.)The axe leaps! The solid forest gives fluid utterances, They tumble forth, they rise and form, Hut, tent, landing, survey,…

Top 50 Greatest Screen Legends

The following list includes the top 50 greatest actors in the history of film, according to the American Film Institute. The American Film Institute defines an American screen legend as “an…

Mystery Initials

Full names of famous authors tracked down by Holly Hartman Maybe "John Ronald Reuel" didn't fit on the book cover?!Ever wonder what the two R's stand for in J. R. R. Tolkien? Curious about…

G - J

Dan GableRoman GabrielEddie GaedelClarence (Big House) GainesAlonzo (Jake) GaitherCito GastonRulon GardnerJustin GatlinLou GehrigCharley GehringerBernie GeoffrionGeorge GervinA. Bartlett…

Brewer's: Queen Anne's Style

(of architecture). Noted for many angles, gables, quaint features, and irregularity of windows. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen ConsortQueen Anne's…

Walt Whitman: There Was a Child Went Forth

There Was a Child Went ForthThere was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain…

Oscar Trivia

by Beth Rowen Meryl Streep Source: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Related Links Minority Oscar Winners Slideshow Movie Timeline More Movie Awards   Films that won…

Lights! Camera! <i>Disaster!</i>

The greatest disaster films of all time by Beth Rowen Related Links DisastersDisaster QuizShips and ShipwrecksThe disaster movie genre flourished in the 1970s, long before effects became major…

Progressive party

(Encyclopedia) Progressive party, in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948. At Philadelphia in…