Here is a reading site for children that gives important biographical information about the composer Mozart. I found it on a storytelling link site on Webgrammar.com.

Do you know on which day of the week you were born? I found a site called 10,000 year calendar that will tell you. You can also learn about all the many occurences that occurred on your birthday on the encyclopedia page.

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Today at the Back to the Bible website, I read a devotion by Elizabeth Elliot in which she discusses a Christian’s attitude toward fear. Here is a few quotes:
Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to do the thing we fear. ~Elizabeth Elliot
Fear is faithlessness…. A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. It is in the cracks, crannies, and gulfy faults of our belief, the gaps that are not faith, that the snow of apprehension settles and the ice of unkindness forms.” ~George McDonald from his book, Sir Gibbie.
Joshua 1:9~
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” (NIV)

O. Henry is one of the most famous short story writers. His real name is William Sidney Porter. (1862-1910). He is considered a master of the surprise ending. After working as a bankteller for a time in his life, he was convicted of embezzlement and sent to prison for three years! There he wrote many short stories.
Last night I read the (short) short story After Twenty Years. Its about two friends meeting together 20 years after the night they parted to “seek their fortunes”.
Here’s a quote from the story:

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