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Selected Worldwide Religious Sites

—By Kate Pritchard Amritsar, India: Site of the Golden Temple (Sikhism). Axum, Ethiopia: Church of St. Mary of Zion (Ethiopian Orthodox), where the Ark of the Covenant is believed to be kept.…

Aesop's Fables: The Oak and the Reeds

by Aesop The Bee and JupiterThe Blind Man and the CubThe Oak and the Reeds An Oak that grew on the bank of a river was uprooted by a severe gale of wind, and thrown across the stream. It…

Richard SWETT, Congress, NH (1957)

SWETT Richard , a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., May 1, 1957; attended public schools in Meredith and Laconia, N.H.; B.A., Yale University, New…

Elizabeth 2002 Deaths

Elizabeth(Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon)Age: 101 Queen Mother who was perhaps the most popular member of England's royal family. She became queen of England in 1936, when her husband…

Gene Fowler Jr. 1998 Deaths

Gene Fowler Jr. Age: 80 An Academy and Emmy Award-winning director and editor of more than 100 movies and television shows, Fowler will perhaps be best remembered for his 1957 cult classic,…

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Afternoon on a Hill

Afternoon on a HillEdna St. Vincent MillayI will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes,…

Sara Teasedale: Testament

TestamentI said, "I will take my life And throw it away; I who was fire and song Will turn to clay.""I will lie no more in the night With shaken breath, I will toss my heart in the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: LIII

by EmilyDickinsonThirstCharlotte Brontí«'s GraveLIII A clock stopped — not the mantel's; Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came…