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Alfred ROWLAND, Congress, NC (1844-1898)

ROWLAND Alfred , a Representative from North Carolina; born in Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., February 9, 1844; attended the common schools; entered the Confederate Army in May 1861 and served…

Biographies: Selected Country Musicians

Selected Country Musicians Hank Williams See also Notable Women Musicians and Dancers Notable African-American Musicians Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists…

Biographies: Notable Philanthropists

Notable Philanthropists Andrew Carnegie See also Activists and Reformers People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Charitable Contributions by Type of…

Louisa May Alcott

The writer of Little Women Louisa May Alcott More Fun Stuff Little Women Characters HangmanLittle Men Characters HangmanBiography Louisa May Alcott Biography Mostly educated by her father…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Orpheus

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Buona NotteFiordispinaOrpheus Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; revised and enlarged by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.…

Job: 6

Job Chapter 6 1 But Job answered and said, 2 O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:…

Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner

ChristabelThe Ancient Mariner The Latin motto is condensed, by omission, from about a page of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus,…

James Whitmore Biography

actorBorn: October 1, 1921Died: February 6, 2009 (Malibu, California, USA) Best Known as: character actor James Whitmore's long career on the stage and…