As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

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Once again accompanied by the Roman poet Virgil and protected by the sanctified Beatrice, players will not only have to make it through the dark abyss, but also find and rescue the Poets of Limbo ...

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In Greco-Roman myth, the harpies were typically tasked with meting out justice on behalf of Zeus and other gods by using their great speed from their wings and sharp talons.

IN 1697, John Dryden, translating the Roman poet Virgil, wrote that “From one root the rising stem bestows a wood of leaves, and vi’let-purple boughs.” More than 150 years later, the German naturalist ...

So wrote the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, “The Aeneid.” At the moment, congressional Democrats can’t move heaven, and they are not raising hell either.