Source: National Education Association (NEA). Web: www.nea.org/readacross/resources/kidsbooks.html . This list was tabulated from an online survey that the National Education Association ran from…
Irish Proverbs Many quips a strong man will make compiled by Ann-Marie Imbornoni A good beginning is half the work. You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. Many hands…
(Encyclopedia) Madách, ImréMadách, Imréĭmˈrĕ mŏˈdäch [key], 1823–64, Hungarian poet and dramatist. Madách is best known for his dramatic epic, The Tragedy of Man (1861, tr. 1908), which relates the…
(Encyclopedia) John, Elton Hercules, 1947–, English popular singer, pianist, and composer, b. Reginald Kenneth Dwight. By the mid-1970s he had become famous presenting his own and other composers'…
(Encyclopedia) Kames, Henry Home, LordKames, Henry Home, Lordhy&oomacr;m [key], 1696–1782, Scottish judge and philosopher. A man of broad interests and a wide-ranging intellect, his works…
(Encyclopedia) Gordon, Charles William, pseud. Ralph Connor, 1860–1937, Canadian clergyman and novelist. His popular stories were based on his experience as a Presbyterian missionary in the lumber…
(Encyclopedia) anagram [Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question…
(Encyclopedia) Savage, Richard, 1697?–1743, English poet. The now discredited story of his illegitimate descent from a noble line and of his persecutions, which are set forth in a biography by Samuel…
