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Flags

Homework Center – Frequently Asked Questions Flags What do the state flags look like? Where can I find the flag for a country? How can I find out what a flag's colors mean? What is the…

2005 George Foster Peabody Awards

Hurricane Katrina, WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Miss.Preparation and Coverage of Hurricane Katrina, WWL-TV, New Orleans, La.NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: “After the Storm: The Long Road Back,”…

Brewer's: Lent

(Anglo-Saxon, lencten). Lenctentid (spring-tide) was the Saxon name for March, because in this month there is a manifest lengthening of the days. As the chief part of the great fast falls…

Brewer's: Lenten

Frugal, stinted, as food in Lent. Shakespeare has “lenten entertainment” (Hamlet, ii. 2); “a lenten answer” (Twelfth Night, i. 5); “a lenten pye” (Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4). “And with a…

Brewer's: Violet-Crowned City

Aristophne calls Athens $$$ (Equites, 1323 and 1329), and again in the Acharnians, 637. Macaulay uses the phrase, “city of the violet crown.” Ion (a violet) was a representative king of…

Brewer's: Oracles

were extremely numerous, and very expensive to those who consulted them. The most famous were Dodona, Ammon (in Libya), Delphos, Delos, that of Trophonius (in Boeotia), and that of Venus…

Brewer's: Orange Lodges

or Clubs are referred to in Hibernia Cariosa, published in 1769. Thirty years later the Orangemen were a very powerful society, having a “grand lodge” extending over the entire province of…

Brewer's: Livered

As, white-livered, lily-livered. Cowardly. In the auspices taken by the Greeks and Romans before battle, if the liver of the animals sacrificed was healthy and blood-red, the omen was…

The Common Cold

Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. The problem. In the course of a year, individuals in the United States suffer one billion colds,…