Snowdrop It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window. The frame of the window…
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(Encyclopedia) Pepin the Short (Pepin III), c.714–768, first Carolingian king of the Franks (751–68), son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne. Succeeding his father as mayor of the palace (…
(Encyclopedia) Imitation of Christ, The, Christian devotional book, of great popularity. It originated among the Brothers of the Common Life in the Netherlands and was written probably c.1425.…
Bruce CampbellactorBorn: 6/22/1958Birthplace: Royal Oak, Michigan TV and film actor known for his work with director Sam Raimi. Campbell's credits include Congo (1995), Tornado (1996) and an…
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by JohnKeats
To George Felton Mathew
To Charles Cowden Clarke
To My Brother George
Full many a dreary hour have I past,
My brain bewilder'd, and my mind o'ercast
With heaviness; in seasons…
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