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Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Little Boy and a Little Girl
Which Treats of a Mirror and o...Of the Flower-Garden At the Ol...A Little Boy and a Little Girl In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there is no roof…A. E. Housman: Look not in my eyes, for fear
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me. One the long nights through must lie Spent in star-…bobbin
(Encyclopedia) bobbin, implement on which thread is wound, used in sewing, spinning, weaving, and lace making. Sometimes the wooden spools of sewing thread are called bobbins. The bobbin of a sewing…printed circuit
(Encyclopedia) printed circuit, electric circuit in which the conducting paths connecting circuit components are affixed to a flat, insulating base board. The base is typically of plastic, glass,…Of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit-Hole
by Lewis Carroll The Pool of TearsDown the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped…Baron Munchausen: The Baron slips through the...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron crosses the Thame...Supplement The Baron slips through the... The Baron slips through the world: after paying a visit to Mount Etna he finds…binocular
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Binocular binocular, small optical instrument consisting of two similar telescopes mounted on a single frame so that separate images enter each of the viewer's eyes. As with a…Smythson, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Smythson, Robert, 1536?–1614, English architect of the Elizabethan era. From 1568, Smythson was freemason to John Thynne in finishing (1567–75) the country house Longleat, Wiltshire.…Hermits Through History
by Elissa Haney Walden; Or, Life in the Woods Related Topics Hermits Saint Anthony. Many scholars agree that Saint Anthony, an Egyptian monk who lived from about A.D. 251 to 350, was the first…Brewer's: Through-stone
(A). A flat gravestone, a stone coffin or sarcophagus, also a bond stone which extends over the entire thickness of a wall. In architecture, called “Perpent” or “Perpend Stones” or “…