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(Encyclopedia) CE5 Hand telephone telephone, device for communicating sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires in an electric circuit. The telephones now in general use evolved from…change ringing
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Nicole Anderson Tell us about your work---what do you do? I work as part of a creative team of art directors and copywriters to…The Congress of Women: Art
by Mrs. Emily Crawford Woman, the New Factor in EconomicsThe Pacific NorthwestArt Mrs. Emily Crawford was born in New London, in the County of Middlesex, England. Her parents were…The Devil's Dictionary: Art
by Ambrose Bierce ARSENICARTLESSNESSART -n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag — what would the…Brewer's: Hermetic Art
The art or science of alchemy; so called from the Chaldean philosopher, Hermes Trismegistus, its hypothetical founder. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Fine Arts
Those arts which chiefly depend on a delicate or fine imagination, as music, painting, poetry, and sculpture. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fine as…Brewer's: Liberal Arts
Book-learning (Latin, liber); viz., Grammar, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Liberal…Brewer's: Ligurian Arts
Deception, trickery. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Ligurian RepublicLiguorians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Spagiric Art
Alchemy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Spagiric FoodSpafields A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…