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Brewer's: Animals in Christian Art
The ant symbolises prudence the ape, malice, lust, and cunning the ass, sobriety, or the Jewish nation the asp, Christ, or Christian faith the bee, industry the camel, submission the cock…Brewer's: Salamander
in Egyptian hieroglyphics, is a human form pinched to death with the cold. (See Undines.) Salamander. A sort of lizard, fabled to live in fire, which, however, it quenched by the chill of…Brewer's: Elements
according to Aristotle. Aristotle maintained that there are four elements—fire, air, water, and earth, and this assertion has been the subject of very unwise ridicule. Modern chemists…Chauncey Judd: Captain John Wooster's
Dayton's Den Tobiah and Rachel Captain John Wooster's John Wooster, or Captain John, as he was most frequently called, was one of the five brothers already named, viz., David, Henry,…Sun Tzu on the Art of War: Attack by Stratagem
Waging War [1] Tactical Dispositions [1] Attack by Stratagem Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact…1995 Grammy Awards
Record of the Year“Kiss From a Rose,” SealAlanis MorissetteArchive PhotosAlbum of the YearJagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (Maverick/Reprise)Song of the Year“Kiss From a Rose,” Seal,…Footnotes
Concluding Note. Footnotes Vultures: Pope is more accurate than the poet he translates, for Homer writes "a prey to dogs and to all kinds of birds. But all kinds of birds are not…The Iliad of Homer: Footnotes
Appendix 1 Footnotes Vultures: Pope is more accurate than the poet he translates, for Homer writes "a prey to dogs and to all kinds of birds. But all kinds of birds are not carnivorous…Film in Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released in 2008 as the fourth movie in the Indiana Jones adventure film series. Find plot summary, character synopses, and world history below…Brewer's: Ages
Varro (Fragments, p. 219, Scaliger's edition, 1623) recognises three ages:— From the beginning of mankind to the Deluge, a time wholly unknown.From the Deluge to the First Olympiad, called…Trending
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