- White Bear Lake (Minnesota) (Wikipedia)
White Bear Lake (Dakota: Bde Maṭo Ská ) is a lake in northeastern Ramsey County and western Washington County in the U.S. state of Minnesota, in the northeast part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The city of White Bear Lake takes its name from the lake.
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Wikipedia)
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is an 1890 short story by American writer and American Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce, described as “one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature”. It was originally published by the San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce’s book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). Bierce’s abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream-of-consciousness narrative mode.