Anthropomorphism

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    Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. Personification is the related a...

A Professor's Song

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  A Professor's Song By John Berryman (. . .rabid or dog-dull.) Let me tell you how The Eighteenth Century couplet ended. Now Te...

There you go!

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Don't believe the media hype that we Americans are a nasty mean people

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  4 men push elderly woman in broken scooter home in pouring rain Lending a helping hand will always be appreciated. Four young men lear...

Word origins, Mark Pembrooke on Tik Tok

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Interesting

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In 1887, pioneering journalist Nellie Bly, (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) had herself committed to a New York asylum for 10 days to expose the horrific conditions the patients were subjected to.

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  Burdened with theater and arts reporting, Bly talked her way into the offices of Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper the New York World and ...

The other day I saw a young man fix a rubber mat that was twisted in a door way, he said to me "Someone could trip on that and get hurt"

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A few years ago I took to feeding the crow family in my yard (This is not one of them) and its become a complete and interesting delight.

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OV Wright

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Singer Overton Vertis "O. V." Wright is generally regarded as a blues artist by African-American fans in the Deep South; he is als...

The Iceman Cometh

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    Eugene O’Neill delayed taking The Iceman Cometh to Broadway for 7 years (fearing that it would be rejected) before finally relenting and...

Here are five great pieces of advice for your people.

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Let it go…..its difficult to do, at least it is for me….but let it go, yesterday is gone. You can’t go back and change it, so let it go. ...

I dig this, thought you would too.....

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Turn a blind eye

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Your numbers up.

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Agatha Christie's mystery

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Agatha Christie with her first husband, Archie Christie. Following the breakdown of their marriage, Christie mysteriously disappeared for 11...

Billy Holiday

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Billie Holiday from a 1944 performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, where she shared the stage with vibraphonist Lionel...

Music

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Scion

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    Scion comes from Anglo-French cioun, meaning "offspring" or "new growth of a plant." When it first sprouted in Eng...

Cavalier means "having or showing no concern for important or serious matters."

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    The adjective cavalier comes from a noun referring to a gentleman or knight who is trained in arms and horsemanship. The noun traces b...

Minor White

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 Minor White in his Jackson Street studio loft in San Francisco, Unknown Photographer, c. 1951.   Minor Martin White (July 9, 1908 – June 24...

Lower East Side, NYC, Photo by Andreas Feininger, 1940.j

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Here's words and explanantion for ya...

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  Intransigent comes from Spanish intransigente, meaning "uncompromising." Its root is transigir ("to compromise"), whic...

Joe Arridy: Another reason to get rid of the death penalty.

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  Joe Arridy: Another reason to get rid of the death penalty. Joe Arridy was born in 1915 in Pueblo, Colorado, to illiterate Syrian pare...

The Hobo's poet

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  A Sailor's Life Oh, a sailor hasn't much to brag — An oilskin suit and a dunnage bag. But, howsoever humble he be, By the ...

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS

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    OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS *** FLEAS ON THE DOG is open for submissions Oh Drat! The gutter press is back!!! Yes, the unnatural heir ...