(Encyclopedia) Wood, Robert Williams, 1868–1955, American physicist, b. Concord, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1891). After studying abroad he became associated with Johns Hopkins as professor of…
(Encyclopedia) United Service Organizations (USO), organization that supplies social, recreational, welfare, and spiritual facilities to members of the armed services. The USO was organized in 1941,…
by Robert Burns Fragment-Her Flowing LocksTo A Mouse, On Turning Her Up ...Halloween[1] The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who…
by Robert Burns 17931794Versicles, A.D. 1793ContentsThe True Loyal NativesOn Commissary Goldie's BrainsLines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket AlmanacThanksgiving For A National VictoryLines On The…
(Encyclopedia) American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), organization est. 1917 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) that provides social services and information to the public in an…
by Robert Burns The LamentTo Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,Despondency: An Ode Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care,
A burden more than I can bear,
I set me down and…
(Encyclopedia) Lowell, Robert (Robert Traill Spence Lowell 4th), 1917–77, American poet and translator, widely considered the preeminent American poet of the mid-20th cent., b. Boston, grad. Kenyon…
The Bough of NonsenseAn IdyllBack from the Somme two Fusiliers
Limped painfully home; the elder said,
S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand years
This Summer, and I'm nine parts dead."
R. "…
by Robert Burns A New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockThe Wounded HareSketch In Verse Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,…
by Robert Burns Highland Harry Back AgainThe Braes O' KilliecrankieThe Battle Of Sherramuir Tune-"The Cameronian Rant." "O cam ye here the fight to shun,
Or herd the sheep…
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