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Frances Milton Trollope was born on March 10th, 1779 at Stapleton in Bristol. The mother of the world famed Anthony Trollope, and his brother Thomas Adolphus Trollope, she was a late entrant to the ranks of authors being fifty when she embarked upon this new career, and even then more by necessity for income than by design. Her first book, in 1832, Domestic Manners of the Americans, gained her immediate notice. Although it was a one sided view...

There never will be enough words to express the great love for literature, passion for the dramatic arts, and fondness of pen to paper felt by Richard Behrens, the author of this collection of scholarly works. Even though recently embarking on a new path to somewhere hopefully far more adventurous than that of our mundane existence, Richard continues to share with us his astute understanding of the mysterious, intriguing, comical, and veiled n...

Hero my boy, you keep working so hard, soon you'll be the best cockle-doodle-dooer in the yard." The little rooster, HERO, wants a mighty cockle-doodle-doo like his Great Grandpa, Grandpa and Father before him. What will he do with his weak doddle-doo? Hero teaches young readers the joy and benefit of setting goals, working hard and following dreams Other books coming in the HERO series: HERO Didn't Know He Could Scat Like That! HERO Doodle-Do...

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Anne lived in the White Mountains of New Hampshire when she was in her twenties. She was surrounded by artists and musicians and a lot of questions. This book is a result of that time in her life-a carefree time of creativity and magic. The book celebrates her insights into man's quest for understanding and the meaning of the cosmos.

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Two dimensional Christianity can't depart from the black and white of the written word of the Bible and into the functional reality of its truths. It lays dormant in the story, being infatuated by its tale or enamored by its beauty but never grasping its direction to be that which its life's conveyance depicts. It stays flat, without color, no power, and refuses to believe there is more to it than believing a truth only for the inner person. T...

The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives, experiences, and words without stepping back to look at how taking the word away does nothing to take away their attitudes behind it. While leftist culture has abandoned the word "retarded, " we are still treated with the same hatefulness and discrimination implicit in that word. It's time to own this word for ourselves. Queer punks...

When a valuable Nazi SS Skull Head ring - one of the most sought-after World War II collectables - is mistakenly left behind at his new Savannah business, Freemason military historian Jake Tununda sets out to Sapelo Island, Georgia to find its owner. He meets Doctor Blackbeard - the Hoodoo root doctor, Buffalo Soldier, Prince Hall Mason, and legendary Saltwater Geechee moonshine king.Jake's good intentions soon backfire as he's thrust into a d...

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is better known to us by his stage name of Molière. He was born in Paris, to a prosperous well-to-do family on 15th January 1622.In 1631, his father purchased from the court of Louis XIII the posts of "valet of the King's chamber and keeper of carpets and upholstery" which Molière assumed in 1641. The benefits included only three months' work per annum for which he was paid 300 livres and also provided a number of lucrat...

James Gibbons Huneker was born in 1857 in Philadelphia. He began his life with a career in law, in order to please his parents. At 21, he abandoned the path, and fled to Paris to learn piano, with his pregnant girlfriend. He only spent a year there, and unhappily returned to Philadelphia with wife and child in tow. He continued to try and learn music, but he gave up his dreams of playing, and instead focused on writing about music and the arts...

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These are the stories of educators doing the heroic work of teaching. They are the teachers, administrators, and instructional coaches like all of us who are teaching and learning with their students every day. These are stories that all of us could tell. Our favorite stories to inspire, enlighten, and entertain. Take a look inside these classrooms and buildings to get a first-hand look at the amazing work that is going on in every educational...

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The California Gold Rush really was a bonanza for more than miners. Between 1849 and 1855 more than $400 million dollars was gathered by the miners, once adjusted, it is a sum today reaching into the trillions. But those who provided for the miners shared and in some cases did better than the gold seekers. It was a social phenomenon marked by the carnivalesque. In Mark Twain's Roughing It (1872), the protagonist remarks as his brother heads We...

Frances Milton Trollope was born on March 10th, 1779 at Stapleton in Bristol. The mother of the world famed Anthony Trollope, and his brother Thomas Adolphus Trollope, she was a late entrant to the ranks of authors being fifty when she embarked upon this new career, and even then more by necessity for income than by design. Her first book, in 1832, Domestic Manners of the Americans, gained her immediate notice. Although it was a one sided view...

Frances Eleanor Trollope, nee Ternan, was born in August 1835 on board a paddle steamer in Delaware Bay in the United States. After an introduction by Charles Dickens she became the governess to the child of Thomas Adolphus Trollope, the brother to the more famed Anthony. Within months they had married and settled on a new life together in Rome. It was from here that Frances elevated her talents to become a full member of the Trollope writing ...

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