ONCE upon a time I taught school in the hills of Tennessee, where the broad dark vale of the Mississippi begins to roll and crumple to greet the Alleghanies. I was a Fisk student then, and all ...

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The village master taught his little school" - From The Village Schoolmaster By Oliver Goldsmith. My siblings and I attended a small rural village school in Ireland. There, the schoolmaster taught ...

The father of Alice (in Wonderland) was Henry George Liddell (1811-98), a skyrocket of a Victorian public figure who headed ...

In "A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South" (January, 1899, Atlantic) Du Bois recounted some of his own experiences as a rural schoolteacher in Tennessee, and expressed frustration at the barriers ...

How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a Halloween staple? In Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon, ...

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Jackson, who joined the Supreme Court in 2022, writes that she was “fiercely” competitive. She skipped her high-school ...

He was at the time, perhaps, the most despised man in Mashpee or, for that matter, in all of Cape Cod. His statement to the ...

Piet Mondrian fled the Netherlands to make art in Paris, London and New York. He was drawn to the excitement of urban life ...

The old Franklin Park Zoo bear dens are getting an upgrade, according to the Boston Parks and Recreation Department.

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