O Little Town of Bethlehem was written by a parish priest considered to be the greatest preacher of his day. His name...
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A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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Williamina Fleming worked as a maid for an astronomer who got frustrated with his staff at Harvard. One day he supposedly exclaimed,...