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(In Hogarth's Gin Lane, written on a gibbet), is intended for Sir Joseph Jekyll, obnoxious for his bill for increasing the duty on gin. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Michigan
Michigan State Information Capital: Lansing Official Name: Michigan Entered Union (rank): January 26th, 1837 (26th state) Present constitution adopted: April 1st, 1963 (effective January 1,…tadpole
(Encyclopedia) tadpole, larval, aquatic stage of any of the amphibian animals. After hatching from the egg, the tadpole, sometimes called a polliwog, is gill-breathing and legless and propels itself…The Devil's Dictionary: Frog
by Ambrose Bierce FRIENDSHIPFRYING-PANFROG -n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice.…Michigan City
(Encyclopedia) Michigan City, city (1990 pop. 33,822), La Porte co., NW Ind., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1836. Michigan City produces machinery, consumer articles, kitchen and transportation equipment,…Calvin, Melvin
(Encyclopedia) Calvin, Melvin, 1911–97, American organic chemist and educator, b. St. Paul, Minn., grad. Michigan College of Mining and Technology, 1931, Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota, 1935. In 1937 he…Michigan State University
(Encyclopedia) Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state…J. Edward HUTCHINSON, Congress, MI (1914-1985)
HUTCHINSON J. Edward , a Representative from Michigan; born in Fennville, Allegan County, Mich., October 13, 1914; graduated from Fennville High School in 1932, from the University of Michigan in…Roethke, Theodore
(Encyclopedia) Roethke, TheodoreRoethke, Theodorerĕtˈkə [key], 1908–63, American poet, b. Saginaw, Mich., educated at the Univ. of Michigan and Harvard. A poet of the Midwest, Roethke combined a love…Michigan, University of
(Encyclopedia) Michigan, University of, main campus at Ann Arbor; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1817 at Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or Univ., of Michigania, rechartered 1821 (as Univ…Trending
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