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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

CHAPTER ONE: THE CYCLONE by L. Frank Baum DOROTHY LIVED IN THE MIDST of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Initial Love

The Initial LoveVenus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces and parks, And told the truant by his marks,— Golden curls, and quiver and bow. This befell…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

Aretha Franklin

A Rose Is Still a RoseArista She could sing the words in the phone book and make them sound mesmerizingly soulful. Yet Aretha Franklin has still managed to put out some very lackluster albums…