"Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, / On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five, / Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year."
Crane & Co. is best known for its high-end writing papers, but the stationary company's cash cow is, literally, cash.
Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul Revere was a Civil War casualty.
As a sometime member of the human race, Couch Slouch would like to extend an apology on behalf of other humans to fellow human Calvin Borel.
Heading for the Massachusetts Turnpike, a Mercedes sedan closes in on the back tire of my bicycle with an aggressive honk. Less than a mile of Boston's streets have designated bike lanes, and Commonwealth Avenue - where I'm trying to avoid construction sites and deep trolley tracks - is not one of them. "Stay close to me - this traffic circle might get hairy!" shouts Andrew Prescott, one of my guides. Dodging rush-hour traffic isn't easy, and with a few hours still to go on his Paul Revere Ride to Freedom tour, I'm wondering if I'd be happier straddling a horse.
FSB: New garden gearupdated: Mon Sep 25 2006 10:15:00
A Proper Garden Fountain
There probably won't be any surprises on the podium at the Republican National Convention in New York City two weeks from now.
To my fellow delegates and my fellow Democrats, I've waited a very, very long time to say this: Welcome to my hometown. Welcome to my hometown.
Not to ruin your nice summer day, but have you ever thought about how your best-laid plans could be upset if you were crippled in ski accident or a car crash? You should. Although relatively few wh...
Are the top pension cops at the U.S. Department of Labor the modern-day equivalents of Paul Revere or of Chicken Little? The answer, which is still unclear, could determine whether all the 51 milli...
Quick! What's your most valuable asset? No, it's not your house or your pension fund. It's your earning power. And the main threat to it is not that you might get fired, it is that you might get si...
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