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Percy Bysshe Shelley: To - ("One word is too often profaned")
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Edward Williams To - To - Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely…Super Bowl XXXIII: And Now, a Word from Our Sponsors...
Only one team can bring home a title, but there will be no shortage of winners on Super Bowl Sunday.This year, companies have been doling an average of $160 million for each 30-second spot during the…Robert C. Word RAMSPECK, Congress, GA (1890-1972)
RAMSPECK Robert C. Word , a Representative from Georgia; born in Decatur, De Kalb County, Ga., September 5, 1890; attended the public schools and the Donald Fraser School at Decatur, Ga.; deputy…Saskatoon
(Encyclopedia) SaskatoonSaskatoonsăskət&oomacr;nˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. The largest city in the province, it is the chief…anecdote
(Encyclopedia) anecdoteanecdoteănˈĭkdōtˌ [key], brief narrative of a particular incident. An anecdote differs from a short story in that it is unified in time and space, is uncomplicated, and deals…Munk, Kaj
(Encyclopedia) Munk, KajMunk, Kajkī m&oobreve;ngk [key], 1898–1944, Danish playwright, a clergyman. His ethical plays, traditional in form, led the Danish dramatic revival in the 1930s. Among…Colt, Samuel
(Encyclopedia) Colt, Samuel, 1814–62, American inventor, b. Hartford, Conn. In 1835–36, he patented a revolving-breech pistol and founded at Paterson, N.J., the Patent Arms Company, which failed in…cloaca
(Encyclopedia) cloacacloacaklōāˈkə [key], in biology, enlarged posterior end of the digestive tract of some animals. The cloaca, from the Latin word for sewer, is a single chamber into which pass…Bethlem Royal Hospital
(Encyclopedia) Bethlem Royal HospitalBethlem Royal Hospitalbĕthˈləm [key], the oldest institution for the care and confinement of the mentally ill in England, and one of the oldest in Europe. A…glee
(Encyclopedia) glee, in music, an unaccompanied song for three or more solo voices in harmony. The word glee [Anglo-Saxon, gligge or gliw=music] has been associated with vocal music from the time of…Trending
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