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Here are the best-selling children's books of all time (through the end of 2000), with author and year of initial publication, compiled by Publishers Weekly. OP means the book is no longer in print…Grail, Holy
(Encyclopedia) Grail, Holy, a feature of medieval legend and literature. It appears variously as a chalice, a cup, or a dish and sometimes as a stone or a caldron into which a bleeding lance drips.…Lane, Joseph
(Encyclopedia) Lane, Joseph, 1801–81, American general in the Mexican War and territorial governor of Oregon, b. Buncombe co., N.C. In the Mexican War he commanded a brigade under Gen. Zachary Taylor…Franklin, Ann Smith
(Encyclopedia) Franklin, Ann Smith, 1696–1763, American printer; sister-in-law of Benjamin Franklin. After the death in 1735 of her husband, James Franklin, she carried on his commercial printing…Brewer's: Rood Lane
(London). So called from a rood or “Jesus on the Cross” placed there, and in Roman Catholic times held in great veneration. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Long Lane
(See Lane.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Long Meg of WestminsterLong Home A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Sermon Lane
(Doctors Commons, London). A corruption of Shere-moniers Lane (the lane of the money-shearers or clippers, whose office it was to cut and round the metal to be stamped into money). The…Brewer's: Warwick Lane
(City). The site of a magnificent house belonging to the famed Beauchamps, Earls of Warwick. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Birchin Lane
I must send you to Birchin Lane, i.e. whip you. The play is on birch (a rod). A suit in Birchin Lane. Birchin Lane was once famous for all sorts of apparel; references to second-hand…Brewer's: Mincing Lane
(London). A corruption of Mynchen Lane; so called from the tenements held there by the mynchens or nuns of St. Helen's, in Bishopsgate Street. (Minicen, Anglo-Saxon for a nun; minchery, a…Trending
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