Like a ghost from the past, Tennyson reads his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” Like the Whitman recording, it too was taken from...

Albert Sagan for Art-Sheep Terry Pratchett's probably being gloriously welcomed in Discworld since he left planet Earth last month, on a one-way ride with DEATH’s...

  There may be no more a macabrely misogynistic sentence in English literature than Edgar Allan Poe’s contention that “the death… of a beautiful woman”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8K_S2ZAzw And here’s Jack Kerouac on the The Steve Allen Plymouth Show in 1959. After awkwardly answering questions while Steve Allen tinkles on the piano,...

While American currency features former U.S. Presidents, Founding Fathers, and iconic landmarks, many other countries put famous writers, poets, artists, and novelists on their...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AyQ_G-to8 Here’s Walt Whitman reading his poem “America.” It was taken from a wax cylinder recording Thomas Edison made in 1889 or 1890—although the recording’s...

Anne Frank June 12, 1929 - March 12, 1945 ''We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it...

Helen Keller 27 June 1880- 1 June 1968 Place of birth: Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA Best thing about her: She was the first both deaf and blind person...

Jonathan Stone for Art-Sheep https://youtu.be/6c2Dnh7z7pQ   UK-based Aniko Kolesnikova aka Mandarin Duck creates fascinating book covers out of polymer clay, which she molds and forms any way she...

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) is considered one of the 20th century's major poets. Also a playwright, essayist and literary critic, the Missouri-born poet became...

Anna Randal for Art-Sheep Our first reaction when we saw this was, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? Our second reaction was of course, this is gold,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVz_5G-0P4 In 1958, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, interviewed crime writer Raymond Chandler for the BBC. This is the only recording of...