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Brewer's: Stockdove
The wild pigeon; so called because it breeds in the stocks of hollow trees, or rabbit burrows. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894StockfishStock, Lock, and…What You Can Do to Help Shelter Animals
April 30th is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. This day was established to bring about awareness to the thousands of abandoned pets who need “forever homes.” In honor of this day, we at Infoplease…2012 Golden Globe Awards
The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards were presented January 13, 2013. Here are the movie award winners. Best Motion Picture—Drama…The Last Night of Ballyhoo
By: Alfred UhryDirector: Ron LagomarsinoSets: John Lee BeattyCostumes: Jane GreenwoodLighting: Kenneth PosnerSound: Tony MeolaIncidental Music: Robert WaldmanOpened: 2/97 at the Helen Hayes…2002 Intel Science Talent Search Winners
First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Ryan R. Patterson, Grand Junction, Colo., for his project entitled “The American Sign Language Translator.” Patterson devised a glove that converts…Antony and Cleopatra
By:William ShakespeareDirector:Barrie RutterSets and costumes:Jessica WorrallLighting:Brian HarrisSound:Conrad NelsonOpened:10/97 at the Majestic TheaterCast:Ishia Bennison, Barrie Rutter,…Brewer's: Dr. Rezio
or Pedro Rezio of Aguero. The doctor of Barataria, who forbade Sancho Panza to taste any of the meats set before him. Roasted partridge was forbidden by Hippocrates; podrida was the most…Brewer's: Scrape
I've got into a sad scrape a great difficulty We use rub, squeeze, pinch, and scrape to express the same idea. Thus Shakespeare says, “Ay, there's the rub” (difficulty); “I have got into…Brewer's: Terrier
is a dog that “takes the earth,” or unearths his prey. Dog Tray is merely an abbreviation of the same word. Terrier is also applied to the hole which foxes, badgers, rabbits, and so on,…Brewer's: Chawbacon
(A). An uncouth rustic, supposed to eat no meat but bacon. I myself knew a most respectable day-labourer, who had saved up enough money to keep himself in old age, who told me he never saw…Trending
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