Vanessa Williams
actress, singerBorn: 3/18/1963Birthplace: Milwood, New York
After making headlines as the first African-American to be crowned Miss America (1983) and for the photos…
Vanessa RedgraveactressBorn: 1/30/1937Birthplace: London, England Academy and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actress known for her on-screen dignity and radical politics. Her films…
(Encyclopedia) Anne of Brittany, 1477–1514, queen of France as consort of Charles VIII from 1491 to 1498 and consort of Louis XII from 1499 until her death. The daughter of Duke Francis II of…
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(Encyclopedia) Lytham Saint Anne'sLytham Saint Anne'slĭᵺˈəm [key], town (1991 pop. 39,707), Lancashire, NW England, on the north shore of the Ribble estuary. It is a seaside resort. Lytham Saint Anne…
Prologue To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings,
Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun,
For my mean Pen are too superior things;
Or how they all, or each their dates have run,
Let Poets…
Another Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone,
The silent night's the fittest time for moan;
But stay this once, unto my suit give ear,
And tell my griefs in either hemisphere…
Contemplations Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide,
When Phœbus wanted but one hour to bed,
The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride,
Were gilded o're by his rich golden head.
Their…
Childhood Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,
A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow,
Whose mean beginning, blushing can't reveal,
But night and darkness must with shame conceal…
Youth My goodly clothing and beauteous skin
Declare some greater riches are within,
But what is best I'll first present to view,
And then the worst, in a more ugly hue,
For thus to do we on…
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