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State of the Union Address: Benjamin Harrison (December 1, 1890)
Benjamin Harrison (December 1, 1890) To the Senate and House of Representatives: The reports of the several Executive Departments, which will be laid before Congress in the usual course, will…Dorothy Stang, 2005 News
American-born Roman Catholic nun, was shot and killed in Brazil's Amazon state of Pará in February. A naturalized Brazilian, Stang had been working with Brazil's rural poor since the 1970s…Collected Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents: Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry S. Truman Inaugural Address Thursday, January 20, 1949 Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, and fellow citizens, I accept with…Middle-earth Timeline
From the creation of Middle-earth to the War of the Ring by Laura Hayes The Second Age of Middle-earth saw the glory of Númenor, the rise of Sauron, and the forging of the Rings of Power…Of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Advice from a Caterpillar
by Lewis Carroll The Rabbit Sends in a Little BillPig and PepperAdvice from a Caterpillar The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar…David Irving, 2000 News
historian and author, was called an anti-Semite racist and a Hitler apologist in April by British High Court Judge Charles Gray, who presided over the libel case in which Irving sued…Ed Rosenthal, 2003 News
California marijuana grower, was sentenced to 1 day in jail and fined $1,000 for cultivating marijuana. He had been growing the drug for medicinal purposes, legal under Oakland's medicinal…Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 2006 News
Jordanian militant, was killed by U.S. troops in an air strike north of Baghdad in June. Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia and the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, was blamed for…Selected Essays in Black History: The Goophered Grapevine
My Escape from Slavery Po' Sandy The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chesnutt About ten years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family doctor, in whose skill and honesty I…Geology of the Grand Canyon: Chapter Vii. Point Sublime.
CHAPTER VI. THE KAIBAB.CHAPTER VIII. THE EXCAVATION O...CHAPTER VII. POINT SUBLIME.Wherever we reach the Grand Cañon in the Kaibab it burst upon the vision in a moment. Seldom is any warning…