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Brewer's: Christian Traditions

connected with natural objects. 1. Birds, Beasts, and Fishes. The Ass: Cross on the back. (See Ass.) Bunting. (See Yellowhammer.) The Crossbill has nothing to do with the Christian…

Walt Whitman: I Sit and Look Out

I Sit and Look OutI sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame, I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves,…

Brewer's: Notarica

A principle by which the first letter of each word in the expression is used alone A. E. I. O. U.Austria's Empire Is Overall Universal. (See A. E. I. O. U.) ÆraA ER. A—i.e. Anno ERat…

Flatland: Of the Nature of Flatland

by Edwin A. Abbott Of the Climate and Houses in FlatlandOf the Nature of Flatland I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy…

Native American Nations & Tribes

Information about select nations and groups There are over 500 different Native American nations recognized by the United States.  Related Links Biographies of Notable American Indians…

Brewer's: Nine

Nine, five, and three are mystical numbers- the diapason, diapente, and diatrion of the Greeks. Nine consists of a trinity of trinities. According to the Pythagorean numbers, man is a full…

Walt Whitman: Proud Music of the Storm, Part 4

Part 4I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people, I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert, Gounod's Faust, or…