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Winter Olympics: Skeleton
Face first down an icy track by Gerry Brown and Christine Frantz Related Links 2006 Winter Olympics 2006 Skeleton Medal Standings Skeleton Through the Years Olympic Preview:…Brewer's: Carry Weight
(To), in races, etc., means to equalise the weight of two or more riders by adding weights to the lighter ones, till both (or all) the riders are made of one uniform weight. “He carries…Brewer's: Ride for a Fall
(To). To ride a race and lose it intentionally. “There were not wanting people who said that government had `ridden for a fall,' in their despair of carrying out their policy.” —Newspaper…Brewer's: Knight
means simply a boy. (Saxon, cniht.) As boys (like the Latin puer and French garcon) were used as servants, so cniht came to mean a servant. Those who served the feudal kings bore arms, and…Brewer's: Horse-shoes and Nails
(for rent). In 1251 Walterle Brun, farrier, in the Strand, London, was to have a piece of land in the parish of St. Clements, to place there a forge, for which he was to pay the parish six…Lachaise, Gaston
(Encyclopedia) Lachaise, GastonLachaise, GastongästôNˈ läshĕzˈ [key], 1882–1935, American sculptor, b. Paris. After studying in Paris, he emigrated to the United States in 1906. For 12 years he…Scads of Scooters
Not just for kids anymore by Holly Hartman A San Francisco "scooter-commuter"[ Take our Transportation Quiz!! ] New York businessmen depend on them, Japanese teenagers can't live without them, and…Brewer's: Skimmington
To ride the skimmington, or Riding the stang. To be hen-pecked. Grose tells us that the man rode behind the woman, with his face to the horse's tail. The man held a distaff, and the woman…Tour de France
The 84th Tour de France (July 5-27) ran 21 stages plus a prologue, covering 2,455 miles starting in Normandy, passing through the Swiss Alps and finishing on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in…Brewer's: Cambuscan'
King of Sarra, in the land of Tartary; the model of all royal virtues. His wife was Elfeta; his two sons, Algarsife and Cambalo; and his daughter, Canacë. On her birthday (October 15th)…Trending
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