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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Biography

http://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm

Video

http://www.boston.com/partners/worldnow/necn.html?catID=80771&clipid=1266461&autoStart=true&mute=false&continuous=true

Nathaniel Hawthorne


Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s

Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter, House of Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Introduction.html

Lighthouse on the Mull of Galloway

Lighthouse on the Mull of Galloway

Scotland's Mull of Galloway lighthouse webcam:

http://www.nlb.org.uk/mullofgallwebcam.htm

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

 Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Michelangelo:

http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/michelangelo1.html

 
 

James Fenimore Cooper

 The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper:

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/introduction.html

 

Herman Melville

Photograph of Herman Melville

 Moby Dick

Herman Melville:

http://people.hofstra.edu/John_L_Bryant/Melville/

Castaway Island webcam:

Preview Webcam Castaway Island

Visit Webcam

 

Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott:

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/

Music Video:

Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGmd-3Gg-s

 

Jules Verne

Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar.
 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873
 
 
Jules Verne:
 
http://www.unmuseum.org/verne.htm

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub.

Jonathan Swift:

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/swift.htm

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Browning:

http://www.florin.ms/ebbwebsite.html

 
 
 
Mad website:
http://www.dccomics.com/mad/
 
Mad Kids website:
http://kids.aol.com/mad-kids
 
FBI visits Mad offices:
http://www.atomicmag.com/articles/2002/fbi_mad.shtml
 

 

Alexander Pope

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
 
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
 
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
 
 Alexander Pope:

http://www.island-of-freedom.com/POPE.HTM

The Rock, as viewed from San Francisco
The Rock, as viewed from San Francisco

Alcatraz Island webcam:

http://www.abovephotos.com/

Indians of All Tribes invade Alcatraz Island in 1969:

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/alcatrazisnotanisland/nativeland.html

Portrait of John Philip Sousa taken in 1900
Portrait of John Philip Sousa taken in 1900

Stars & Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa:

Biography

http://www.dws.org/sousa/

Sound clips

http://www.dws.org/sousa/articles/works.htm

http://www.filmsite.org/wavfiles/frankenstein.wav


Vincent van Gogh:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/vgwel.shtm

Sound Bite:

Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)

Listen

 

SE-QUO-YAH – a lithograph from Indian Tribes, McKinney and Hall, 1856. This lithograph is from the portrait painted by Charles Bird King from life in 1828.
SE-QUO-YAH – a lithograph from Indian Tribes, McKinney and Hall, 1856.

Sequoyah:

http://ngeorgia.com/people/sequoyah.html

"Bologna Mozart" - Mozart age 21 in 1777, see also: face only
"Bologna Mozart" - Mozart age 21 in 1777.

Wolfgang Mozart:

http://www.mozartproject.org/

 

 

Image:Niagara falls panorama.jpg

Niagara Falls video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae1RqLvO4a8


Leo Tolstoy, late in life.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy:

http://www.professorandy.com/LeoTolstoy.shtml

John Muir

John Muir worked to preserve wilderness in America.

Founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir:

http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

Lithograph of Little Turtle, reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C. in 1814.
Lithograph of Little Turtle, reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C. in 1814.[1]

Called the greatest Indian of all time by President George Washington, Miami Chief Little Turtle:

http://littleturtle.net/index.shtml

Easter Island:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/

Liberty Bell
Independence Bell, Old State House bell
Tower Bell
The Liberty Bell.
The Liberty Bell.

 

The Liberty Bell:

http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/

 

Voltaire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I do not agree with what you have to say,

 but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire:

http://www.visitvoltaire.com/

Walter Reed

Walter Reed

Confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than by direct contact.

Walter Reed:

http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/reed.html

Image:Bugs-ending.jpg

 

History of Bugs Bunny:

http://www.toonopedia.com/bugs.htm

Watch 1942-43 Bugs Bunny Cartoons:

http://www.nonstick.com/wmovies/

Sound Bite:

Alone Again Naturally (Gilbert O'Sullivan)

Listen

A young Charles Dickens

"I can do nothing that I want to do,

 go nowhere where I want to go,

and see nothing that I want to see.

If I turn into the street, I am followed by a multitude".

"[T]his is not the republic I came to see;

 this is not the republic of my imagination".

Charles Dickens comes to America:

http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/america.html

Lost Gold of the Confederacy:

http://www.kudcom.com/www/gold.html

 

http://bullwinkle.toonzone.net/heyrock2.wav

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55NuWQCh78