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Brewer's: Danace

(3 syl.). A coin placed by the Greeks in the mouth of the dead to pay their passage across the ferry of the Lower World. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Women: Other Selected Athletes, Sports

Major Fast Pitch Multiple winners: Raybestos/Stratford Brakettes (24); Orange Lionettes (9); Jax Maids (5); California Commotion Arizona Ramblers and Redding Rebels (3); Hi-Ho Brakettes, J.J…

Brewer's: Golden Shower

or Shower of gold. A bribe, money. The allusion is to the classic tale of Jupiter and Danae. Acrisios, King of Argos, being told that his daughter's son would put him to death, resolved…

crystal

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Types of crystal crystal, a solid body bounded by natural plane faces that are the external expression of a regular internal arrangement of constituent atoms, molecules, or…

2006 Deaths: R - Z

RajkumarLou RawlsSid RaymondDana ReeveJean-François RevelJason RhoadesAnn RichardsLloyd RichardsHam RichardsonPaul RigbyA.M. RosenthalJoe RosenthalMarie RudisillIbrahim RugovaLouis…

2005 Deaths: A - F

Don AdamsEddie AlbertShana AlexanderJack AndersonVictoria de los AngelesBa JinAnne BancroftBarbara Bel GeddesCharles BellSaul BellowPeter BenensonObie BensonStan BerenstainLazar BermanGeorge…

M - R

Ibrahim Bare MainassaraRichard MariusGerald MartinRichard Martin,Victor MatureCurtis MayfieldMike McCreadyPaul MellonYehudi MenuhinDonald MillsMr. ProspectorNaomi MitchisonWilmer MizellJay…

Heroes in Greek Mythology

Achilles Achilles was the strongest and most fearless warrior in the Greek war against the Trojans. As an infant his mother dipped him into the River Styx, which made him invulnerable everywhere…