(Encyclopedia) Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, English chemist and physicist. He made an incandescent lamp using a carbon filament (1860), 20 years before Edison's lamp. Noted for important…
Secretary of State William J. Bryan, 1913Robert Lansing, 1915Bainbridge Colby, 1920Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, 1913Carter Glass, 1918David F. Houston, 1920Secretary of War…
by Robert Burns Poem On SensibilityDivine Service In The Kirk Of LamingtonThe Toadeater Of Lordly acquaintance you boast,
And the Dukes that you dined wi' yestreen,
Yet an…
by Robert Burns On Hearing It Asserted FalsehoodOn A Swearing CoxcombOn A Suicide Earth'd up, here lies an imp o' hell,
Planted by Satan's dibble;
Poor silly wretch, he's…
by Robert Burns Poortith Cauld And Restless LoveBraw Lads O' Galla WaterOn Politics In Politics if thou would'st mix,
And mean thy fortunes be;
Bear this in mind,—be deaf…
by Robert Burns To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-NOn Seeing Mrs. Kemble In YaricoOn Chloris Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn. From the white-blossom'd sloe my…
