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2004 MacArthur Foundation Awards
The MacArthur Foundation awards monetary prizes each year in order to provide financial assistance for selected innovators.Angela Belcher, 37, nanotechnologist; Cambridge, Mass.Gretchen…October 2010 Current Events: Business News
U.S. News | World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of October 2010. Economy Loses 95,000 Jobs in…Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 47
Part 47I am the teacher of athletes, He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own, He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.The boy I…Brewer's: Strawberry Preachers
So Latimer called the non-resident country clergy, because they strayed from their parishes, to which they returned only once a year. (Anglo-Saxon, streowan, to stray.) Source:…Brewer's: Strawberry
means the straying plant that bears berries (Anglo-Saxon, streow berie). So called from its runners, which stray from the parent plant in all directions. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Wahabites
(3 syl.). A Mahometan sect, whose object is to bring back the doctrines and observances of Islam to the literal precepts of the Koran; so called from…Brewer's: Waistcoat
The M. B. waistcoat. The clerical waistcoat. (See M.B.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Waiters upon ProvidenceWaifs…U.S. Gold Medal-Winning Women's Basketball Teams
1984 (gold medal): Cathy Boswell, Denise Curry, Anne Donovan, Teresa Edwards, Lea Henry, Janice Lawrence, Pamela McGee, Carol Menken-Schaudt, Cheryl Miller, Kim Mulkey, Cindy Noble and…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Address To Edinburgh
by Robert Burns Song-Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To A HaggisAddress To Edinburgh Edina! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a…Longest Celebrity Marriages: Christopher and Georgianne Walken
Catherine McNiff 1. Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens 2. Bob and Ginny Newhart 3. Bill and Camille Cosby 4. Don and Barbara Rickles 5. Dolly Parton and Carl Dean 6.…Trending
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