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Words of Five Letters

Try the Find a Word: Crossword Search Abode of dead: Babylonian, ARALUAborigine: Borneo, DAYAKAftersong, EPODEAloe, AGAVEAnimal: Footless, APODEAnt, EMMETAntelope: African, ADDAX, BEISA,…

Old Sultan

Old Sultan A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was grown very old, and had lost all his teeth. And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house…

Brewer's: Hunger seasons Food

English: “Hunger is the best sauce.” “Hunger is good kitchen meat.” French: “Il n'y a sauce que d'appétit.” “L'appétit assaisonne tout.” Latin: “Optimum condimentum fames.” (Socrates.) “…

Brewer's: Amaranth

Clement of Alexandria says —Amarantus flos, symbolum est immortalitatis. The word is from the Greek amarantos (everlasting). So called because its flowers never fade like other flowers,…

Chandra: Exploring the Invisible Universe

Sources: NASA and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, called the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), was launched from the space shuttle Columbia…

Hall of Fame Fielders

The following table lists the National Baseball Hall of Fame fielders, including their name and number of years they were active in the sport. Member…

King Conspiracy Theory #1

Ray was the unwitting patsy for someone shadier by Borgna Brunner Was James Earl Ray, a career criminal and known racist, nothing more than a patsy for someone even shadier? King Conspiracy…

muckrakers

(Encyclopedia) muckrakers, name applied to American journalists, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th cent. attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in…

International Geophysical Year

(Encyclopedia) International Geophysical Year (IGY), 18-month period from July, 1957, through Dec., 1958, during a period of maximum sunspot activity, designated for cooperative study of the solar-…