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That Darn Cat

Director: Bob SpiersWriters: S.M. Alexander and L.A. KaraszewskiDirector of Photography:Jerzy ZielinskiEditor:Roger BartonMusic:Richard Kendall GibbsProduction Designer:Jonathan…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 2, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 1, 1806March 3, 1806March 2, 1806 Sunday March 2cd The diet of the sick is so inferior that they recover their strength but slowly. none of…

Brewer's: Sethites

(2 syl.). A sect of the second century, who maintained that the Messiah was Seth, son of Adam. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Setting a HenSetebos A B C…

Brewer's: Blue Guards

(The). So the Oxford Blues, now called the Royal Horse Guards, were called during the campaign in Flanders (1742 1745). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue…

Brewer's: Blue John

(A). A petrefaction of blue fluor-spar, found in the Blue John mine of Tre Cliff, Derbyshire; and so called to distinguish it from the Black Jack, an ore of zinc. Called John from John…

Brewer's: Hemus

or Hæmus. A chain of mountains in Thrace. According to mythology, Hæmos, son of Boreas, was changed into a mountain for aspiring to divine honours. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…

Brewer's: Kailyal

(2 syl.). The heroine of Southey's Curse of Keháma. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Kain HensKai-anians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…

Brewer's: Stanhope Lens

A cylindrical lens with spherical ends of different radii. The covering of the tube into which the lens is fitted is called the “cap.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…