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Walden |
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1854 book by Henry David Thoreau recording his two year experience of living a life of complete simplicity near Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts. |
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T. S. Eliot's influential 1922 "Lost Generation" poem. |
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“We Receive But What We Give” |
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In Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (1802), we find the following lines:
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Christian college, located in Wheaton, Illinois, host of the Wade Collection. |
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Whitsun |
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The Church of England's name for Pentecost, "a festival observed on the seventh Sunday (50th day) after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles as they celebrated the ancient Jewish feast of Shabuoth (see Acts 2:1-4)" [Microsoft Encarta]. |
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World War I |
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Global conflict, also known as The Great War, lasting from 1914 to 1918, which began as a local conflict with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and ended with the United States, France, Italy, England, Russia and others fighting together to defeat Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria. |
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World War II |
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Global conflict begun by Nazi Germany, lasting from 1939 to 1945, in which the Allies (led by the United States, Great Britain, and Russia) defeated the Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). |