In the Tennis-CourtAthletic sports were in high favour at Plumfield; and the river where the old punt used to wabble about with a cargo of small boys, or echo to the shrill screams of little…
(Encyclopedia) Sirleaf, Ellen JohnsonSirleaf, Ellen Johnsonsĭrlēfˈ [key], 1938–, Liberian economist and political leader. Educated in the United States (M.P.A. Harvard, 1971), she worked in the…
Illinois Jo Daviess County, Illinois People QuickFactsJo Daviess CountyIllinoisPopulation, 2005 estimate 22,58012,763,371Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 1.3%2.8%…
Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH
A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL,
DIED SUDDENLY OF "STRANGER'S FEVER"
NOV'R 5th 1843…
Thompson's Lunch Room — Grand Central StationStudy in WhitesWax-white —
Floor, ceiling, walls.
Ivory shadows
Over the pavement
Polished to cream surfaces
By constant sweeping.
The big room is…
Croissy, Ile-de-France, June, 1815"Whoa! Victorine.
Devil take the mare! I've never seen so vicious a beast.
She kicked Jules the last time she was here,
He's been lame ever since, poor…
Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String QuartetFirst MovementThin-voiced, nasal pipes
Drawing sound out and out
Until it is a screeching thread,
Sharp and cutting, sharp and…
"To-morrow to Fresh Woods and Pastures New"As for a moment he stands, in hardy masculine beauty,
Poised on the fircrested rock, over the pool which below him
Gleams in the wavering sunlight,…
Judy JohnsonBorn: Oct. 26, 1899Baseball IF one of the great stars of the Negro Leagues; a terrific fielding third baseman who regularly batted over .300; when baseball integrated Johnson's…
