The complete online text of Marie by Laura E. Richards.

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards was a prolific writer of fiction and poetry for children and for adults. She wrote over ninety books, and one of her works for children, Tirra Lirra: Rhymes Old and New, remained in print for forty-eight years, a good record...

At first glance, she seems as out of place as Dorothy in those first moments in Oz. Among the charcoal and navy suits sprinkled throughout the midtown Manhattan restaurant, her white Baby Phat sweat suit, matching baseball cap, and oversize silver hoops create a startling...

Crowned the “Princess of the Roc” by Jay-Z, Teairra Marí is on the verge of making Detroit’s 8 Mile stretch famous for something other than Eminem. Lounging in Atlanta’s swank Silent Sound Studios, the petite starlet knows the weight of the responsibility she carries: to...

Early Saturday morning the Queen Mary 2 berthed at the new $52 million, 182,000-square-foot cruise-ship terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The 23-story-tall ship. which is nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall, dwarfed the low-rise residential and industrial neighborhood, and residents...

Visitors to Versailles now have access to attractions related to Marie-Antoinette that are newly restored or have not previously been open to the public. Versailles is selling separate tickets to the Marie-Antoinette estate for $11.30 in addition to the general...