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What are the most dangerous icebergs?
All icebergs are dangerous to shipping but depending on size, shape, and location some icebergs can be more troublesome than others. Obviously, icebergs nearest the Atlantic shipping lanes…Robert Bennet Forbes Biography
Robert Bennet Forbesmerchant, authorBorn: 1804Birthplace: Jamaica Plain, Mass. Began his career in his uncles' company, which specialized in trade with China. The company became Russell…Lee, Muna
Lee, Muna[1895-1965](1)Miss Lee spent her early life in Oklahoma, and first came into notice as a poet by gaining a prize given by `Poetry', of Chicago, for the best lyric verse by a young…Angela Davis Biography
Angela Davispolitical activist, authorBorn: 1/26/1944Birthplace: Birmingham, Ala. A graduate student of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University, Davis became a member of…Anthony Zinni, 2002 News
retired Marine Corps general, shuttled between the U.S. and the Middle East early in 2002, trying to secure a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians and end nearly a year and a half of…Jesse Brown 2002 Deaths
Jesse BrownAge: 58 former Marine who headed the Department of Veterans Affairs during the Clinton administration. Died: Washington DC, Aug. 15, 2002J. Carter BrownA - FNorman O. BrownColeridge: Prefatory Note
IntroductionPrefatory Note The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have depended also largely…John Murtha, 2005 News
Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, stunned member of Congress and sparked the ire of the Bush administration in November, when he called for an immediate withdrawal of troops from…John Murtha, 2006 News
typically hawkish congressman from Pennsylvania, continued to be the Democrats' voice of the antiwar movement, frequently criticizing the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq…Coleridge: Work without Hope
Youth and AgeWork without Hope 62, 5-*the sole unbusy thing*. Cf. George Herbert's "Employment:" "All things are busie; onely I Neither bring hony with the bees, Nor flowers…