Category: Entertainment & Performing Arts
How To Become A Successful Magician
If you have ever wanted to know how to become a magician, you have found the answer! If you seriously want to learn to become a magician and want to learn magic tricks to amaze your friends and family members, you have come to the right place! Many want to become a magician but don’t […]
Standup Comedy
Well, here’s your chance to try it out for size. Just think, you are making jokes and everyone is laughing. As you were growing up, you kept your friends, family and classmates in stitches. They would fall over whenever you told a joke. They couldn’t get enough of them and always wanted you to keep […]
The Youth of Jefferson; or, A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
First published in 1854, this anonymous work may have been written by John Esten Cooke (1830-1886). It begins: ‘On a fine May morning in the year 1764, -that is to say, between the peace at Fontainebleau and the stamp act agitation, which great events have fortunately no connection with the present narrative, -a young man […]
William Penn
William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was an English founder and ‘Absolute Proprietor’ of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his good relations and his treaties with […]
William the Conqueror
Professor Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892) was an English historian. Ecclesiastical architecture was his great interest. He visited many churches and began a practice of making drawings of buildings on the spot and afterwards tracing them over in ink. His first book, save for his share in a volume of English verse, was a History of […]
William the Conqueror
Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American writer of children’s books. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work (1837) and Rollo at Play (1837) are the best known of his writings, […]
White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor of Calabar
Mary Slessor (1848-1915) was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria. In 1876, she applied to the Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. She was briefly trained before being sent to Calabar where she arrived in September. Mary shocked many missionaries by living with and as the locals. She learned to speak Efik […]
Vasco Nunez De Balboa
Frederick Albion Ober (1849-1913) was an American author, travel writer, biographer and historian. He was occupied as a shoemaker (1862-1866) and subsequently attended the Massachusetts Agricultural College but due to the lack of funds was forced to leave after only a short time. In 1876 he began making ornithological surveys to the Lesser Antilles where […]
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
Carrie Amelia Nation (1846-1911) was a member of the temperance movement – the battles against alcohol in pre-Prohibition America. She has been the topic of numerous books, articles and even a 1966 opera at the University of Kansas. Born Carrie Moore in Garrard County, Kentucky, Nation got her myth-making last name from her second husband, […]