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What is avian influenza?

What is avian influenza? Avian influenza, or “bird flu”, is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and, less commonly, pigs. Avian influenza viruses…

Amy Lowell: A Winter Ride

A Winter RideWho shall declare the joy of the running! Who shall tell of the pleasures of flight! Springing and spurning the tufts of wild heather, Sweeping, wide-winged, through the blue…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Emancipation

by EmilyDickinsonXXXIVLostEmancipation Emancipation No rack can torture me, My soul's at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw, Nor rend with…

Dargan, Olive Tilford

Dargan, Olive Tilford[1869-1968](1)Born in Grayson County, Ky., and educated at the University of Nashville and at Radcliffe College. She became a teacher and was connected with various…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Time

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To NightLinesTime Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are…

Forest M. Bird

Forest M. BirdBorn: 1921Birthplace: Stoughton, Mass Medical respirators—Bird developed the first highly reliable, low-cost mass-produced respirator in the world. His “Babybird ” respirator…