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Red, White, and Blue Highways
The story of the U.S. Interstate by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Related Links Interstate System TriviaQuiz: Great American Highways Road Mileage Between U.S. CitiesDwight D.…Sara Teasdale: Blue Squills
Blue SquillsHow many million Aprils came Before I ever knew How white a cherry bough could be, A bed of squills, how blue!And many a dancing April When life is done with me, Will lift the…Blues Foundation Hall of Fame
The Blues Foundation, established in 1980 in Memphis, Tennessee, promotes and preserves blues music. The Blues Hall of Fame, also founded in 1980,…Brewer's: Blue-apron Statesman
(A). A lay politician, a tradesman who interferes with the affairs of the nation. The reference is to the blue apron once worn by almost all tradesmen, but now restricted to butchers,…Brewer's: Blue-coat School
Christ's Hospital is so called because the boys there wear a long blue coat girded at the loins with a leather belt. Some who attend the mathematical school are termed King's boys, and…Brewer's: Blue eyed Maid
(The). Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, is so called by Home. Now Prudence gently pulled the poet's ear, And thus the daughter of the Blue-eyed Maid, In Mattery's coating sounds, divinely…Brewer's: Blue-light Federalists
A name given to those Americans who were believed to have made friendly (“blue-light”) signals to British ships in the war. (1812.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Blue-pigeon Flyer
A man who steals the lead off of a house or church. “Bluey” is slang for lead, so called from its colour. To “pigeon” is to gull, cheat, or fub. Hence, blue-pigeon, one who cheats another…Brewer's: Priest of the Blue-bag
A barrister. A blue-bag is a cant name for a barrister. (See Barrister's Bag.) “He [O'Flynn] had twice pleaded his own cause, without help of attorney, and showed himself as practised in…Deep Sea Drilling Project
(Encyclopedia) Deep Sea Drilling Project, U.S. program designed to investigate the evolution of ocean basins by core drilling of ocean sediments and underlying oceanic crust. Funded by the National…Trending
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