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The Devil's Dictionary: Basilisk
by Ambrose Bierce BARRACKBASTINADOBASILISK -n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny…Christina Rossetti: May
MayI cannot tell you how it was; But this I know: it came to pass Upon a bright and breezy day When May was young; ah, pleasant May! As yet the poppies were not born Between the blades of…Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 11
Part 11As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk, I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.I have seen the he-bird also, I have…Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy KerriganBorn: Oct. 13, 1969Figure skating 1993 U.S. women's champion and Olympic medalist in 1992 (bronze) and '94 (silver); victim of Jan. 6, 1994 assault at U.S. nationals in Detroit…Brewer's: Serpent
An attribute of St. Cecilia, St. Euphemia, and many other saints, either because they trampled on Satan, or because they miraculously cleared some country of such reptiles. (See Dagon.)…Brewer's: Egg.
Eggs. (Anglo-Saxon, æg.) A bad egg. A bad speculation; a man who promises, but whose promises are pie-crust. A duck's egg, in cricket. (See Duck.) Golden eggs. Great profits. (See Goose…Jim Barber 1998 Deaths
Jim BarberAge: 85 a former All-Star with the Washington Redskins who played in the most lopsided game in NFL history; played tackle from 1935-1941 and started on the 1940 Washington team…Cosi fan tutte <br/>(“They All Do It”)
Music:Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLibretto:Lorenzo da PontePremiere:Vienna, January 26, 1790 Mozart's final comic opera, Cosi fan tutte, a laughing look at the twists and turns of romantic love,…Tonya Harding Biography
Tonya HardingBorn: Nov. 12, 1970Figure skater 1991 U.S. women's champion; involved in bizarre plot hatched by ex-husband Jeff Gillooly to injure rival Nancy Kerrigan on Jan. 6, 1994 and keep…cricket, in zoology
(Encyclopedia) cricket, common name of the slender, chirping, hopping insects forming the family Gryllidae in the order Orthoptera. Most crickets have long antennae, muscular hind legs for jumping,…Trending
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