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Teens' Top 10 Young Adult Books, 2003
Teen readers across the country vote for the best from the American Library Association Related Links Teen Read Week from the ALA Teens' Favorite Funny Books…Brewer's: St. Stephen's
The Houses of Parliament are so called, because, at one time, the Commons used to sit in St. Stephen's Chapel. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. Stephen's…Brewer's: Simple
(The). Charles III. of France. (879, 893-929.) Simples cut. (See Battersea.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Simple SimonSimony A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: St. Monday
A holiday observed by journeyman shoemakers and other inferior mechanics, and well-to-do merchants. In the Journal of the Folk-lore Society, vol. i. p. 245, we read that, “While Cromwell's…Brewer's: Vicar of Bray
(The). Let who will be king, I will be vicar of Bray still. Brome says of Simon Alleyn that he “lived in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. In the first two…Brewer's: Read
or Read (Simon), alluded to by Ben Jonson in the Alchemist, i. 2, was Simon Read, of St. George's, Southwark, professor of physic. Rymer, in his Foedera, vol. xvi., says, “he was indicted…Brewer's: Simnel Cakes
Rich cakes eaten in Lancashire in Mid-Lent. Simnel is the German semmel, a manchet or roll; Danish and Norwegian simle; Swedish, simla. In Somersetshire a teacake is called a simlin. A…Brewer's: Simplicity
is sine plica, without a fold; as duplicity is duplex plica, a double fold. Conduct “without a fold” is straightforward, but thought without a fold is mere childishness. It is “tortuity of…Welterweight
1892–94 Mysterious Billy Smith1894–96 Tommy Ryan1896 Kid McCoy11896– 1900 Mysterious Billy Smith1900 Rube Ferns1900–01 Matty Matthews1901 Ruby Ferns1901–04 Joe Walcott1904 Dixie Kid11904–06…25th Lambda Literary Awards
The 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were for books published in 2012. Winners were announced during a ceremony on June 3, 2013…Trending
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