Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

Single Manhattanite Renny Shuler is searching for true love while burning in corporate hell.

It's a beautiful day in Hawaii. Kay Yoshinobu and Sid Chu have been invited for a day trip.

June 1I doubt that I would be starting this diary if it weren't for laptops.

When the local mission's Father Duffy shows up at the office of Smith, Chu, Yoshinobu and Correa.

Fifty-Minutes Flahterty presents forty-one short stories in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes?