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• Look to the night sky for Autumn Dipper
When Pegasus was brought to Mount Helicon, one kick of his hoof caused the spring of Hippocrene to flow – a source of inspiration for poets.  In another tradition he carried the thunder and lightning for Zeus. The old star atlases that used ...
• Hope or hype: Election fervor in Harlem
Those demographics helped usher in the Harlem Renaissance, when poets like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay and novelists like Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright made the community the nexus of African-American culture. The Apollo Theater on 125th ...
• Embraceable ewes: A Saudi sheep pageant
BANBAN, Saudi Arabia - The contestants scampered down the tiny runway, bleating at their admirers. Poets sang their praises in verse as the male-only audience checked out the competitors' physical beauty, including the span of their cheeks, the ...