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Soap Box Derby

All-American Soap Box Derby At the 67th annual Soap Box Derby on a rain-soaked track in Akron, Ohio, Hilary Pearson won the Masters division, RickiLea Murphy…

2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…

From Private to Prophet

The Year in Movies by Peter Keough A year in film can be seen as a record of commercial and artistic achievement, in which case 1998 will be remembered as the year Hollywood made more…

Brewer's: City of the Great King

(The) —i.e. Jerusalem. (Psa. xlviii. 2; Matt. v. 35.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894City of the Seven HillsCity of Saints A B C D E F G H I J K…

Brewer's: Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

No one injures me with impunity. The motto of the Order of the Thistle. It was first used on the coins of James VI. of Scotland (James I. of England). A strange motto for Puritans to adopt…

Brewer's: Spy Wednesday

The Wednesday before Good Friday, when Judas bargained to become the spy of the Jewish Sanhedrim. (Matt. xxvi. 3-5, 14-16.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Talent

meaning cleverness or “gift” of intelligence, is a word borrowed from Matt. xxv. 14-30. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TalesTale of a Tub A B C D E F…