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(March 2, 1904-Sept. 24, 1991) By Borgna Brunner Related Links: Children's LiteratureAll-Time Bestselling Children's BooksMost recent Newbery Awards and complete list of earlier winners…Brewer's: Care Sunday
(the fifth Sunday in Lent). Professor Skeat tells us (Notes and Queries, Oct. 28th, 1893), that “care” means trouble, suffering; and that Care-Sunday means Passion-Sunday. In Old High…Brewer's: Catacomb
A subterranean place for the burial of the dead. The Persians have a city they call Comb or Coom, full of mausoleums and the sepulchres of the Persian saints. (Greek, kata-kumbe, a hollow…Brewer's: Chat de Beaugency
(Le). Keeping the word of promise to the ear, but breaking it to the sense. The legend is this: An architect was employed to construct a bridge over the Loire, opposite Beaugency, but not…Brewer's: Deaf
Deaf as an adder. (See below, Deaf adder.) Deaf as a post. Quite deaf; or so inattentive as not to hear what is said. One might as well speak to a gate-post or log of wood. Deaf as a…Brewer's: Tybalt
A Capulet; a “fiery” young noble. (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.) It is the name given to the cat in the story of Reynard the Fox. Hence Mercutio says, “Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you…Brewer's: Rat-killer
Apollo received this aristocratic soubriquet from the following incident: Crinis, one of his priests, having neglected his official duties, Apollo sent against him a swarm of rats: but the…Brewer's: Sick Man
(The). So Nicholas of Russia (in 1844) called the Ottoman Empire, which had been declining ever since 1586. “I repeat to you that the sick man is dying; and we must never allow such an…Deadliest Hurricanes in the United States (U.S. Mainland)
Rank Hurricane Year Category1 Deaths 1. Galveston, Tex. 1900 4 8,000 2. Maria (Puerto Rico) 2017 5 3,000 3. Lake Okeechobee, Fla. 1928 4 2,500…Most Intense<sup class="fnr">1</sup> Hurricanes in the United States<sup class="fnr">2</sup>
(U.S. Mainland) Rank Hurricane Year Category3 1. Florida Keys 1935 5 2…Trending
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