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Home > Primary Sources > History & Biography > Lewis & Clark > The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 28, 1804 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 27, 1804July 29, 1804July 28, 1804 July 28th Satturday Set out this morning early, the wind blou from the N....

Home > Primary Sources > History & Biography > Lewis & Clark > The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, February 12, 1805 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Day 507 Day 509...

Home > Culture & Entertainment > Film > The Top Ten: American Film Institute’s Greatest Female Screen Legends TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Greatest Female Screen Legends Last Week’s Top Ten Top Ten Archive...

Home > Math & Science > Earth & Environment > The Year of the Potato TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Potatoes as a global food by Elizabeth Olson Related Links Global Food Crisis Top Ten Greenest Buildings in the U....

Home > Culture & Entertainment > TV & Radio > TV Moms Juggle Career and Home TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Today’s TV Moms June Cleaver, move over: modern TV moms juggle career, family, and a clean house...

Home > Culture & Entertainment > Film > Ulee’s Gold TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales A lyrically poignant film, but its lesson in humanity unfolds at a snail’s pace. Looking and acting uncannily like his famous and famously reserved father, Peter Fonda plays the anti-Captain America, a lonely, diffident beekeeper, Ulee, whose quiet life is disturbed when his two granddaughters (Biel and Zima) show up on his Florida doorstep....

Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: Gliding O’er all TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Gliding O’er allGliding o’er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life alone, Death, many deaths I’ll sing....

Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: Whispers of Heavenly Death (Poem) TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Whispers of Heavenly DeathWhispers of heavenly death murmur’d I hear, Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing, (Or is it the plashing of tears?...

Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales You Lingering Sparse Leaves of MeYou lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs, And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row; You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;) You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay’d of time, Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, The faithfulest—hardiest—last....

Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier and accused pedophile and child-sex trafficker, died by suicide in jail last year (or so reports claim). His death was a devastating blow to many who hoped to uncover more information about the accomplices who participated in and allowed these abuses to occur. Now, Epstein’s longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested on charges of enticement and conspiracy related to their alleged sex trafficking, and many are hoping that the details of Epstein’s inner circle will finally become clear — including, specifically, Epstein’s ties to Prince Andrew....

Home > Primary Sources > Books & Plays > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Scene IIRome. The house of LepidusEnter Domitius Enobarbus and LepidusLepidusGood Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed, And shall become you well, to entreat your captain To soft and gentle speech....

Home > Primary Sources > Books & Plays > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Henry VI (Pt 2), Act V, Scene III TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Scene IIIFields near St. Alban’sAlarum. Retreat....

Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewestLook in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother....

Home > Primary Sources > Books & Plays > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene II TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Scene IIBelmont. A room in Portia’s houseEnter Bassanio, Portia, Gratiano, Nerissa, and AttendantsPortiaI pray you, tarry: pause a day or two Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong, I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile....

Home > Primary Sources > Books & Plays > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare: Richard III, Act IV TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Act IVScene IBefore the TowerEnter, on one side, Queen Elizabeth, Duchess OF York, and Dorset; on the other, Anne, Duchess of Gloucester, leading Lady Margaret Plantagenet, Clarence’s young DaughterDuchess of YorkWho meets us here?...

Home TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales One of the fastest Olympic sports Related Links 2014 Winter Olympics Luge Through the YearsEncyclopedia: LugeOlympic Preview: Skeleton Did You Know? The only Olympians to win four consecutive gold medals in the same individual event are Carl Lewis (long jump), Al Oerter (discus), and Paul Elvstrom (sailing)....

Home > Primary Sources > Philosophy & Religion > The Bible > Zechariah: 6 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Zechariah Chapter 6 1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass....

In late 2016, the musical Dear Evan Hansen made its Broadway debut to wide acclaim and quickly became the latest obsession for high school musical theater kids. The musical went on to earn six Tony Awards that included Best Musical and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical that same year. The latter award went to then-23-year-old Ben Platt, who, five years later, has controversially reprised his role as Evan Hansen in the 2021 movie adaptation alongside Amy Adams and Julianne Moore, among others....

You may know Ann Dowd best as Aunt Lydia on The Handmaid’s Tale. That’s good — that means you know just how capable she is of provoking strong emotion, having created one of the most enduring and viscerally frightening TV villains of the last decade. Or perhaps you know her best as Patty Levin in The Leftovers — even better. That means you know how much she can do with silence....

When I was a kid, new shoes and a brand-new outfit for the first day of school brought confidence and energy of newness. My shoes, so clean and perfectly fit, felt like a fresh start, and I was beaming in the annual photo with my sister. Back when I started fifth grade and my sister started second, there was a back-to-school-eve shopping catastrophe. Inside a shoebox were sneakers worth waiting weeks for, but there was a problem: there were two left shoes....