Paul Robeson - vocalist, actor, athlete, lawyer, & civil rights activist. When the world-renowned singer performed in Duluth in 1931 he was allowed a hotel room provided he used the freight elevator to enter the building.
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All 37 of Shakespeare's plays produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Time-Life Films.
"The Death of Demosthenes." Illustration from The Outline of History by H.G. Wells, Volume I, 1920.
Demosthenes was Greek rhetorician and orator who legend has practiced his craft with a pebble under his tongue as he taught himself to talk over the waves of the seashore. His dabbling in politics upon the death of Philip of Macedon led him to be executed by Philip’s son, who we know as Alexander the Great
