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Mothers by the Numbers

Info about mothers from the Census Bureau   Related Links Popular Baby Names Mother's Day Mothers in the Labor Force Live Births by Age and Race of Mother   How Many…

Brewer's: Mutual Friends

Can two persons be called mutual friends? Does not the word of necessity imply three or more than three? (See the controversy in Notes and Queries June 9, 1894, p. 451.) A mutual flame was…

Brewer's: Normandy

The Poles are the vintagers in Normandy. The Norman vintage consists of apples beaten down by poles. The French say, “En Normandie l'on vendange avee la gaule,” where gaule is a play on…

Brewer's: Tancred

(in Jerusalem Delivered) shows a generous contempt of danger. Son of Eudes and Emma (sister of Robert Guiscard), Boemond or Bohemond was his cousin. Tancred was the greatest of all the…

Brewer's: Cottage Countess

(The). Sarah Higgins, of Shropshire, daughter of a small farmer, in 1790 married Henry Cecil, Marquis of Exeter and Lord of Burleigh. The bridegroom was at the time living under the name…

Liszt, Franz

(Encyclopedia) Liszt, FranzLiszt, Franzfränts lĭst [key], 1811–86, Hungarian composer and pianist. Liszt was a revolutionary figure of romantic music and was acknowledged as the greatest pianist of…

diesel engine

(Encyclopedia) diesel engine, type of internal-combustion engine invented by the German engineer Rudolf Diesel and patented by him in 1892. Although his engine was designed to use coal dust as fuel,…

Franklin, Sir John

(Encyclopedia) Franklin, Sir John, 1786–1847, British explorer in N Canada whose disappearance caused a widespread search of the Arctic. Entering the navy in 1801, he fought in the battle of…

1997 Medal of Science Recipients

William K. Estes, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., for fundamental theories of cognition and learning that transformed the field of experimental…