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Ambrose Bierce’s Devilish Definitions

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“Wit stabs, begs pardon—and turns the weapon in the wound."

Goggles & Side Curtains

Author: Gerald Carson

The roads were terrible, and posted badly or not at all; you had to equip yourself against a hundred mishaps, ninety-three of which actually happened--but you were often up to your hubcaps in pleasure.

A Family Divided

Author: Janet Stevenson

The Grimké sisters forsook their heritage to fight for abolition. Then, many years later, their brother’s terrible sin came back to haunt them.

Rehearsal For World War II

Author: Darby Perry

Life aboard the gunboat Panay was an idyl, and its crewmen were the envy of the fleet. Then, without warning, Japanese bombs started to fall.

The Main Stream Of New England

Author: Ellsworth S. Grant

Flowing from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound, nourishing both industry and agriculture, and carrying on its back sailing sloops, steamships, and pleasure craft, the Connecticut River has been for three hundred years.

Firebrand Of The Revolution

Author: Alexander Winston

For ten tumultuous years Sam Adams burned with a single desire: American independence from Great Britain.

A Husband’s Revenge

Author: Thomas Fleming

Verdicts of History: II -- Is it all right to shoot your wife’s lover? Do you have to catch him flagrante delicto? What if your victim is district attorney? And if you are a member of Congress? Now come with us to Washington, D.C., in 1859.
Is it all right to shoot your wife’s lover? Do you have to catch him flagrante delicto? What if your victim is district attorney? And if you are a member of Congress? Now come with us to Washington, D.C., in 1859.

The Passion of Hernando De Soto

Author: Timothy Severin

In Florida the great conquistador hoped to find a Golconda. Instead, he found a Golgotha.