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Lee–Jackson Day was a state holiday in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, commemorating Confederate commanders, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Its observation was eliminated in 2020, replaced by Election Day as a state holiday.
The poem was recited in a somewhat different form in what sounds like a speech by Jackson sampled on the 1973 funk single "Same Beat" by The J.B.'s. The J.B.'s titled an album and track Damn Right I Am Somebody the following year. The phrase has become so much of a calling card for Jackson that he yells it in a cameo in the movie Undercover ...
Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...
When it comes to the critical matter of planning for your future, here are seven retirement rules to live by.
Her popular poems include He Giveth More Grace and Christmas Carols, which were published in Christian Endeavour World and Sunday School Times. [1] [7] Flint passed away on 8 September 1932. Robert J. Morgan claims that she was called as the 'poet of helpfulness,' in her obituary published in the New York Times. [8]
There's an estimated 24.5 million millionaires in the United States. That's a relatively small percentage of the country's population, but it's also not zero -- meaning it's very possible for more...
Inspired by the best-selling children’s book, “Go the F*** to Sleep,” this hilarious new poem encourages social distancing. Samuel L. Jackson reads sweary poem to encourage people to stay at ...
Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University.He is the author of six collections of poetry: Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems 2002-2022 (W.W. Norton, 2023), The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010), Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award for ...