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Tipper Gore - Biography

Tipper Gore Making activism her career by David Johnson Tipper has been active in causes from violence in the media to homeless awareness. Related Links Vice President Al GoreCampaign…

Louder Than a Bomb

A teen poetry slam dunk   Related Links Louder Than A Bomb, the film Young Chicago Authors Recommended Poetry Books for Kids Poetry Terms Hangman Poets on Poetry While…

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…

Brewer's: Hexameter Verse

A line of poetry consisting of six measures, the fifth being a dactyl and the sixth either a spondee or a trochee. The other four may be either dactyls or spondees. Homer's two epic poems…

Brewer's: Ten Commandments

(The). The following rhyme was written under the two tables of the commandments: PRSVR Y PRFCT MN VR KP THS PRCPTS TN. The vowel E Supplies the key. Ten Commandments (The). Scratching…

Brewer's: Yankee

A corruption of “English.” The word got into general use thus: In 1713 one Jonathan Hastings, a farmer at Cambridge, in New York, used the word as a puffing epithet, meaning genuine,…

Brewer's: Gill

(g soft) or Jill. A generic name for a lass, a sweetheart. (A contraction of Gillian = Juliana, Julia.) “Jack and Jill went up the hill ...” Nursery Rhymes. “Every Jack has got his Jill…

The Koran/Sura LXV — Divorce

Sura LXV — Divorce[1102]MECCA — 12 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful O PROPHET! when ye divorce women, divorce them at their special times. And reckon those times…