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Benét, William Rose (Benét)

Benét, William Rose (Benét)[1886-1950](2)Born at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Harbor, Feb. 2, 1886. Graduated at the Academy of Albany, N.Y., in 1904, and took the degree of Ph.B. from the Sheffield…

Sara Teasedale: Dooryard Roses

Dooryard RosesI have come the selfsame path To the selfsame door, Years have left the roses there Burning as before.While I watch them in the wind Quick the hot tears start— Strange…

Christina Rossetti: Under the Rose

Under the Rose'The iniquity of the fathers upon the children.'Oh the rose of keenest thorn! One hidden summer morn Under the rose I was born.I do not guess his name Who wrought my Mother's…

Caroline Giltinan: Overnight, a Rose

Overnight, a RoseCaroline GiltinanThat overnight a rose could come I one time did believe, For when the fairies live with one, They wilfully deceive. But now I know this perfect thing…

Flemming Rose, 2006 News

Danish newspaper editor, helped to stir massive outrage among Muslims all over the world when he commissioned cartoonists to draw the Prophet Muhammad “how they saw him.” Twelve cartoons…

Reginald Rose 2002 Deaths

Reginald RoseAge: 81 Emmy Award–winning television writer who penned and coproduced Twelve Angry Men. He also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. Died: Norwalk, Conn., April 19,…

Pete Rose, 2004 News

former professional baseball player, admitted in January that he did in fact bet on baseball games, including those involving his team, the Cincinnati Reds. He denied ever betting against…

Aesop's Fables: The Rose and the Amaranth

by Aesop The Nightingale and the HawkThe Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the DogThe Rose and the Amaranth A Rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the Amaranth said to…

Brewer's: Couleur de Rose

(French). Highly coloured; too favourably considered; overdrawn with romantic embellishments, like objects viewed through glass tinted with rose pink. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Red Rose Knight

(The) Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1597, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed the Boast of England. ...” Source: Dictionary of…