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The Porcellian Club is an all-male final club at Harvard University, sometimes called the Porc or the P.C. The year of founding is usually given as 1791, when a group began meeting under the name "the Argonauts", [1] or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as "the Pig Club" [2] was formally founded.
Fear of growing old may refer to: Gerascophobia; Gerontophobia This page was last edited on 28 ...
"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe "Alone" is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime.The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1]
A rota (Latin for 'wheel') is a type of round, which in turn is a kind of part song.To perform the round, one singer begins the song, and a second starts singing the beginning again just as the first gets to the point marked with the red cross in the first figure below.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda.It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end and subsequent rebirth, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin.
Written poetry was a very strange thing that white people did. [9] His first performance was in church when he was 11 years old, resulting in him adopting the name Zephaniah (after the biblical prophet), [2] and by the age of 15, his poetry was already known among Handsworth's Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities. [10]
Bobby Cole (September 8, 1932 – December 19, 1996) was an American musician, known for his jazz singing and piano playing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger.He worked as a musical arranger for The Judy Garland Show hosted by Judy Garland, succeeding Mel Tormé.