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Aesop's Fables: The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf

by Aesop The Ass and His BurdensThe Fox and the GoatThe Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf A Shepherd's Boy was tending his flock near a village, and thought it would be great fun to hoax the…

Aesop's Fables: The Jackdaw and the Pigeons

by Aesop The Peasant and the Apple-TreeJupiter and the TortoiseThe Jackdaw and the Pigeons A Jackdaw, watching some Pigeons in a farmyard, was filled with envy when he saw how well they…

Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: An Antidote

141 143 An Antidote A YOUNG Ostrich came to its Mother, groaning with pain and with its wings tightly crossed upon its stomach. "What have you been eating?" the Mother asked, with solicitude. "…

Poem: Bequest

Poem 27 Poem 29 Bequest You left me, sweet, two legacies, - A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea,…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Past

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Passage of the ApenninesTo Mary -The Past Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1. Wilt thou forget the happy hours Which we buried in Love's sweet…

Decline in Drug Use among American Adolescents

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In September 2007, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, led by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…

Leonardo DiCaprio Biography

Leonardo DiCaprio actorBorn: 11/11/1974Birthplace: Los Angeles Known worldwide by his young fans as “Leo”, this modern-day Romeo catapulted to megastardom after his role in Titanic (1997),…

Oscar William SWIFT, Congress, NY (1869-1940)

SWIFT Oscar William , a Representative from New York; born in Paines Hollow, Herkimer County, N.Y., April 11, 1869; moved to Michigan with his parents, who settled in Adrian in 1877; attended the…

Amy Lowell: The Boston Athenaeum

The Boston AthenaeumThou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours, How often in some distant gallery, Gained by a little painful spiral stair, Far from the halls and corridors where throng…