The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, June 18, 2013 "To Help the Monkey Cross the River" by Thomas Lux, from The Cradle Place. © Houghton Mifflin 2004. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 It is the birthday of musician and songwriter Paul McCartney (1942), born in Liverpool, England. When he was 14, he learned to play a left-handed guitar and met a local art student named John Lennon.
Napoleon “went to live” on the island of Saint Helena? I thought he was exiled there, to an open-air prison.
Napoleon “went to live” on the island of Saint Helena? I thought he was exiled there, to an open-air prison.