Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
The MeditationsBy Marcus Aurelius Written 167 A.C.E.Translated by George Long Book One From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence, and...
HARRISON BERGERONby Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody...
Alex Da Silva, a celebrity choreographer, was arrested on 4/4/09 after teaching a dance class, and he is held on $3.8 million dollar bail. He is accused of raping four dance students between 2003 and 2009. The victims said that he would would invite them into his house and lure them into his bedroom....
Jeanine Mason is the winner of the show, “So You Think You Can Dance 2009.” On August 6, in the final episode of this season’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, Jeanine Mason, 19, was crowned as “America’s Favorite Dancer.” Kayla Radomski, Evan Kasprzak and Braddon Bryant were the other three finalists....
With a Miley Cyrus lap dance video surfacing online today, it looks like Miley is distancing herself far from that goody two-shoes Hannah Montana character. Cyrus is seen in the video giving a lap dance/grinding with 44-year-old producer (and "So You Think You Can Dance" judge) Adam Shankman. Cyrus...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
TimaeusBy Plato Written 360 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett Persons of the Dialogue-SOCRATES- CRITIAS- TIMAEUS- HERMOCRATES Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day? Timaeus. He...
The internet is the great playing field leveler. On the internet, no one knows you're a dog, right? But it turns out that we have a pretty good idea if you're a paranoid schizophrenic with persecution complex — because that's what your website tells us about you. These 13 people are all crackpots...
New Zealand toddler Cory Elliott has become an internet sensation after being caught on tape dancing to Beyonce’s hit “Single Ladies.” Cory’s dad, Chester Elliott, uploaded the home video to YouTube, luring some 570,000 viewers so far to watch the 20-month-old baby dance. Do you think this baby’s...
