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Piedmont, region, Italy

(Encyclopedia) PiedmontPiedmontpēdˈmŏnt [key], Ital. Piemonte, region (1991 pop. 4,302,565), 9,807 sq mi (25,400 sq km), NW Italy, bordering on France in the west and on Switzerland in the north.…

The Weather and Your Mood

How much does the weather really affect your mood? by Jennie Wood Related Links America's Worst Cities for Spring Allergies, 2012 The Top 25 U.S. Cities with the Cleanest Air…

Brewer's: Salacacabia

or Salacacaby of Apicius. An uneatable soup of great pretensions. King, in his Art of Cookery, gives the recipe of this soup: “Bruise in a mortar parsley-seed, dried peneryal, dried mint,…

Revelation: 10

Revelation Chapter 10 1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars…

Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market

Goblin MarketMorning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and…

Brewer's: Misnomers

Absalom means a Father's Peace, a fatal name for David's rebellious son. Acid (sour) applied in chemistry to a class of bodies to which sourness is only accidental and by no means a…

1 Samuel: 14

1 Samuel Chapter 14 1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines'…

John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci

For There's Bishop's TeignLines Rhymed in a Letter from OxfordLa Belle Dame sans Merci A Ballad Original version Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?…

Brewer's: Beard

Cutting the beard. The Turks think it a dire disgrace to have the beard cut. Slaves who serve in the seraglio have clean chins, as a sign of their servitude. Kissing the beard. In Turkey…