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Brewer's: Naked Lady

Meadow saffron (Colchicum Autumnale). Called naked because, like the almond, peach, etc., the flowers come out before the leaves. It is poetically called “the leafless orphan of the year…

Brewer's: Twelve

Each English archer carries twelve Scotchmen under his girdle. This was a common saying at one time, because the English were unerring archers, and each archer carried in his belt twelve…

Brewer's: Eating Together

To eat together in the East was at one time a sure pledge of protection. A Persian nobleman was once sitting in his garden, when a man prostrated himself before him, and implored…

Crayola Crayon Colors

A Timeline1903 Binney & Smith Co. introduces the first Crayola Crayons. There are 8 colors in a box:blackbluebrowngreenorangeredvioletyellow 1949 There are 40 colors added:…

Walt Whitman: This Compost

This CompostPart 1Something startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I loved, I will not go now on the pastures to walk, I will not strip the clothes from my…