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A Parody

Appendix A Parody "Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell How pious priests whip Jack and Nell, And women buy and children sell, And preach all sinners down to hell, And sing of heavenly…

Owl and the Nightingale, The

(Encyclopedia) Owl and the Nightingale, The, Middle English poem written probably by Nicholas de Guildford of Dorsetshire about the beginning of the 13th cent. Written in 2,000 lines of octosyllabic…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: May 23, 1804

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark May 22, 1804May 24, 1804May 23, 1804 Wednesday May 23rd 8 Indians Kick. Came to Camp with meat we recved their pesents of 3 Deer & gave them…

1996-97 AHL Goaltending Leaders

  GP GAA Sv% Record J.F. Labbe, Her 66 2.52 .914 34-22-9 Scott Langkow, Spring 33 2.64 .911 15-9-7 Dominic Roussel, Phi 36 2.66 .916 18-9-3…

Brewer's: Hamstring

To disable by severing the tendons of the ham. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HanHamshackle A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…

NHL Hockey Assist Leaders By Year

Multiple Winners: Wayne Gretzky (16); Bobby Orr (5); Adam Oates, Frank Boucher, Bill Cowley, Phil Esposito, Gordie Howe, Jaromir Jagr, Elmer Lach, Mario Lemieux, Stan Mikita and Joe Primeau…

Brewer's: Hammel

(Scotch). A cattle-shed, a hovel. (Hame = home, with a diminutive affix. Anglo-Saxon, ham, home. Compare hamlet.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Jarnac

Coup de Jarnac. A peculiar stroke of the sword by which the opponent is ham-strung. `The allusion is to the duel between Jarnac and La Châteigneraie,on July 10th, 1547, in the presence of…

Brewer's: Buckingham

(Saxon, boccen-ham, beech-tree village.) Fuller, in his Worthies, speaks of the beech-trees as the most characteristic feature of this county. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

1997-98 AHL Goaltending Leaders

  GP GAA Sv% Record Richard Shulmistra, Alb 35 2.32 .918 20-8-4 Robb Stauber, Har 39 2.41 .920 20-10-6 J-Sebastien Giguere, SJ 31 2.46 .926 16-…