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A Boy's Will: Waiting
by Robert Frost Asking for RosesIn a ValeWaiting Afield at Dusk He arrives at the turn of the year. WHAT things for dream there are when spectre-like, Moving among tall haycocks lightly…Alice Brown: Hora Christi
Hora ChristiAlice BrownSweet is the time for joyous folk Of gifts and minstrelsy; Yet I, O lowly-hearted One, Crave but Thy company. On lonesome road, beset with dread, My questing lies…The Devil's Dictionary: Meerschaum
by Ambrose Bierce MEEKNESSMENDACIOUSMEERSCHAUM -n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is…lock and key
(Encyclopedia) lock and key, fastening fitted to an entryway, such as a gate or door, or a container, such as a cabinet, drawer or safe, to keep it closed and/or prevent unauthorized access or use.…polyp and medusa
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Polyp and medusa stages in the life cycle of Obelia, representative of the phylum Cnidaria polyp and medusa, names for the two body forms, one nonmotile and one typically free…Sac and Fox
(Encyclopedia) Sac and Fox, closely related Native Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Sac and Fox culture was of the…August 2004
WorldChristian Churches Targeted in Iraq (Aug. 1): Four churches attacked in coordinated car bombings in Baghdad and Mosul. About a dozen people killed. Secessionist Tension Rises in Georgia…Brighton and Hove
(Encyclopedia) Brighton and Hove, city and unitary authority and district, SE England. It was formed by the merger of the boroughs of Brighton and Hove…parent and child
(Encyclopedia) parent and child, legal relationship, created by biological (birth) relationship or by adoption, that confers certain rights and duties on parent and child; in some states the courts…extroversion and introversion
(Encyclopedia) extroversion and introversion, terms introduced into psychology by Carl Jung to identify opposite psychological types. Jung saw the activity of the extrovert directed toward the…Trending
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