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Gary Brown "The thick'ning shades of night appear; "Hoarse breathes the wintry storm afar; "Hark! From the sea-beat shore I hear "The din of elemental war." The poem printed on the front page of The Ohio Repository on Feb. 1, 1821, was entitled "The Winter Night." Written by Selleck Osborn, an American poet and a printer from the nation's Northeast, it had been published a decade before in a book entitled "The Lady's Miscellany." Osborne would live only five more years after his poem made it to the pages of the Repository, before passing in 1826 at the age of 43. Still, Osborne's words, along...

Cover artist: Larry Elmore Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are officially returning to the Dragonlance franchise. Weis announced today that she and her writing partner will be writing a new trilogy set to follow their classic fantasy novels with Del Rey Books, with the first installment to tentatively hit stores later this year. If you browsed a bookstore in the 1990s and early 2000s, you likely came across rows of books bearing the Dragonlance logo: the long-running franchise of Dungeons & Dragons tie-ins ran for nearly two hundred volumes, led by Weis and Hickman’s original trilogy, whic...

The stories we tell about scientists are often heroic. The figure whose breakthrough idea is rejected, forgotten, and then later vindicated is a classic of such narration. Consider Constantin Merezhkowsky (1855–1921), championed as the “father” of symbiogenesis. In the early decades of the twentieth century, he suggested that cell organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as simpler bacteria-like organisms. He was laughed out of the room. Yet his papers of 1905 and 1909–10, “long forgotten, ridiculed or marginalized have now received worldwide acclaim,” write schola...

>> tucker: that was bizarre. >> when you love to be that kid? parents who take you out on a winter night and they encourage you to set fires? i'm sure it would have appealed to the anarchist in you. it tells you how completely weird the parents and the other people out there are. the same people who show up at the imf meetings at world bank, the occupy wall street. you asked them why are you out there, they are completely incoherent. what are that woman say? there nazis upstairs. at the national press club. these people ought to be medicated. >> tucker: i think some of them are. the idea that ...

Murder and sent to prison for life without parole. his mother, pregnant with him survived the airport ambush the day jonestown died. on a winter night in oakland, california, in 1999, rhodes opened up with an assault rifle from an overpass and killed a policeman on the highway below. >> we heard a gunshot like boom, boom, boom, boom, more like four or five gunshots, yes, and then we heard a car took off from that area. >> trouble has been a fellow traveler for many through the years since jonestown. mike prokes, the pr man who helped walk away with the suitcases of cash, called a news conferen...