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Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CXVIII

Sonnet CXVII Sonnet CXIX CXVIII Like as, to make our appetite more keen, With eager compounds we our palate urge; As, to prevent our maladies unseen, We sicken to shun sickness when we…

William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act I, Scene I

Scene IAntioch. A room in the palaceEnter Antiochus, Prince Pericles, and followersAntiochusYoung prince of Tyre, you have at large received The danger of the task you undertake.PericlesI…

February 2021 Current Events: World News

Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world…

anthrax

(Encyclopedia) anthraxanthraxănˈthrăks [key], acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) that primarily…

Poems: A Little Boy Lost

by WilliamBlakeA Poison TreeA Little Girl LostA Little Boy Lost "Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to…

The Emperor's New Groove

Director:Mark DindalWriter:David ReynoldsDisney; G; 78 minutes Release:12/00Voices of:David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt It is telling, perhaps, that Disney keeps quiet about its new…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To the Nile

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Passage of the ApenninesTo the Nile 'Found by Mr. Townshend Meyer among the papers of Leigh Hunt, [and] published in the "St. James's Magazine" for March, 1876.' (…

Edmonia Lewis Biography

Edmonia Lewis sculptorBorn: 1845Birthplace: New York, Ohio, or New Jersey   Details of her early life are uncertain. Her father was a Black American and her mother an Ojibwa Indian who named her…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: May 30, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark May 29, 1806May 31, 1806May 30, 1806 Friday May 30th 1806. Lapage and Charbono set out to the indian vilages early this morning for the purpose…

Brewer's: George

(St.) (g soft). Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall, ii. 323, asserts that the patron saint of England was George of Cappadocia, the turbulent Arian Bishop of Alexandria, torn to pieces by the…