Margaret Widdemer (born 1884, died 1978) - an American poet. She was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She studied at the Drexel Institute Library School. She lived in New York for most of her life. In her works she touched on social issues. She released The Factories With Other Lyrics (1915) and The Dark Cavalier (1958). In 1918, for the book The Old Road to Paradise, she received the Columbia University Prize officially treated as the Pulitzer Prize in the field of poetry (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was broadcasted only from 1922). She shared the distinction with Carl Sandburg, who was recognized for the Cornhuskers collection. Her poems went to Harriet Monroe's book The New Poetry: An Anthology (1917). Margaret Widdemer also published 30 novels (including The Red Castle Women, 1968) and a volume of memories Golden Friends I Had (1964). Bibliography
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Myrmex Indikos
Myrmex Indikos, pol. Indian ant - an alleged species of gigantic ants (according to Herodot's description, larger than foxes, but smaller than dogs). The earliest mention of these creatures is dated to the fifth century BC, and its author is Herodotus. According to her, these ants inhabited the deserts of Persia and India and extracted gold from their sands. Several such creatures were kept in the residence of the King of Persia. Gold was to be obtained by caravans made up of several camels in the heat of the day, when the ants were protected underground. You had to do it quickly, because the ants sensed the smell of people and went on the pursuit, and they were deadly dangerous. This story is confirmed by the next accounts: Nearchos, one of the army officers of Alexander Macedoński, and Megastenes - a historian and traveler. The fragment of the Megasthenes (IV-III century BC) preserved in fragments can be seen in the underground mines at the foot of the mountains on the easte...
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