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Brewer's: Whole Duty of Man

Tenison, Bishop of Lincoln, says the author was Dr. Chaplin, of University College, Oxford. (Evelyn: Diary.) Thomas Hearne ascribes the…

Brewer's: Doctors

False dice, which are doctored, or made to turn up winning numbers. `The whole autechamber is full, my lord—knights and squires, doctors and dicers.' `The dicers with their doctors in…

Coleridge: Prefatory Note

IntroductionPrefatory Note The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have depended also largely…

Cloning Milestones

Scientists hope that the advances in the cloning process can bring back animals that are nearly extinct Cloned bull named Got AP Photo/I.Lopez 1938Cloning…

Ernst Jaffé Biography

hematologistDied: February 16, 2008 (Port Washington, New York) Best Known as: a doctor and groundbreaking hematologist Ernst Jaffé was a doctor and…

Stanley Kamel Biography

actorDied: April 8, 2008Best Known as: actor who played Dr. Charles Kroger on the TV series Monk Deathplace: Hollywood Hills, California Stanley…

Goals

Multiple Winners: Bobby Hull (7); Phil Esposito (6); Charlie Conacher, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard (5); Bill Cooke, Babe Dye, Brett Hull, Mario Lemieux, Pavel Bure and…

The Devil's Dictionary: Electricity

by Ambrose Bierce ELECTORELEGYELECTRICITY -n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous…