Search
Search results
Displaying 341 - 350
1998-99 MLS Leading Scorers
Points Gm G A Pts Jason Kreis, Dal 32 18 15 51 Roy Lassiter, DC 30 18 11 47 Ronald Cerritos, SJ 31 15 9 39 Stern John, Clb 28 18…Brewer's: Antrustions
The chief followers of the Frankish kings, who were specially trusty to them. (Old German, tröst, trust, fidelity.) “None but the king could have antrustions.” —Stubbs: Constitutional…Brewer's: Anubis
In Egyptian mythology, similar to the Hermës of Greece, whose office it was to take the souls of the dead before the judge of the infernal regions. Anubis is represented with a human body…Brewer's: Go it Blind
Don't stop to deliberate. In the game called “Poker,” if a player chooses to “go it blind,” he doubles the ante before looking at his cards. If the other players refuse to see his blind,…Brewer's: Emmet
contracted into Ant thus, Em't, ent, ant (Anglo-Saxon, æmete). “A bracelet made of emmets' eyes.” Drayton:Court of Fairies. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…2001 Intel Science Talent Search Winners
First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Viviana Risca, 17, Paul D.Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington, N.Y., for her computer science project, “DNA-based Steganography,” which studied…Brewer's: Earth
To gather strength from the earth. The reference is to Antæos, son of Poseidon and Ge, a giant and wrestler of Libya (Africa). So long as he touched the earth his strength was irresistible…Brewer's: Faineant
Les Rois Fainéants (the cipher or puppet kings). Clovis II. and his ten successors were the puppet kings of the Palace Mayors. Louis V. (last of the Carlovingian dynasty) received the same…Chippendale, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Chippendale, ThomasChippendale, Thomaschĭpˈəndālˌ [key], 1718–79, celebrated English cabinetmaker. His designs were so widely followed that a whole general category of 18th-century…Darwish, Mahmoud
(Encyclopedia) Darwish, Mahmoud, 1941–2008, widely considered the Palestinian national poet, b. Barwa, Palestine (now in Israel). He was born to middle-class Sunni Muslim farmers, who were displaced…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
