Telephone directory. A telephone directory, also known as a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book, or the white/yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by name and address to be found. The advent of the Internet and smart phones in the 21st century greatly reduced the need for a paper phone book. Some communities,
Near the very height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, on March 5, 1966, American popular-music fans made a #1 hit out of a song called âThe Ballad Of The Green Beretsâ by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
Elegy Moves Through the Centuries. In the mid- 1700s, British poet Thomas Gray wrote one of the most famous elegiac poems, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.' The following stanzas, written in iambic pentameter, demonstrate Gray's strong introspective mood, beginning on line 13: Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,