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Top of Page Christmas is a magical time — perhaps you’ll go ice skating, decorate the Christmas tree, bake cookies, and especially, watch holiday films. Christmas memories are made every year, and…The Odyssey
Contents Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition The Gods in Council--Miverva's Visit to Ithaca--The Challenge from Telemachus to the Suitors. Assembly of the People of…The Seven Wonders of the World
Since ancient times, numerous “seven wonders” lists have been created. The content of these lists tends to vary, and none is definitive. The seven wonders that are most widely agreed upon as…May 2015 Current Events: World News
U.S. News | Business News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of May…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Homer's Hymn to Venus
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to MinervaThe CyclopsHomer's Hymn to Venus Published by Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; dated 1818. Verses 1-55, with some omissions. Muse, sing…Brewer's: Bodies
Compound bodies, in chemical phraseology, mean those which have two or more simple bodies or elements in their composition, as water. Simple bodies, in chemical phraseology, mean the…Brewer's: Bun
A small cake. (Irish, boinneog, Scotch, bannock.) In regard to “hot cross buns” on Good Friday, it may be stated that the Greeks offered to Apollo, Diana, Hecate, and the Moon, cakes with…Brewer's: Chariot of the Gods
So the Greeks called Sierra Leone, in Africa, a ridge of mountains of great height. A sierra means a saw, and is applied to a ridge of peaked mountains. Her palmy forests, mingling with…Brewer's: Crescent
Tradition says that “Philip, the father of Alexander, meeting with great difficulties in the siege of Byzantium, set the workmen to undermine the walls, but a crescent moon discovered the…Brewer's: Copper
(A). A policeman. Said to be so called from the copper badge which Fernando Wood, of New York, appointed them to wear; but more likely a variant of “cop” (q.v.). “There were cries of `…Trending
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