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Brewer's: Minuit

(2 syl.). “Enfants de la messe de minuit, ” pickpockets. Cotgrave gives “night-walking rakehells, such as haunt these nightly rites only to rob and play the knaves.” Source: Dictionary…

The Problem of Concurrent Taxation

The Problem of Concurrent Taxationby The following speech by Patrick Henry was delivered to the Virginia ratifying convention, June 5, 1788.See also Federalist No. 34I never will give up the…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1792

by Robert Burns 179117931792ContentsI do Confess Thou Art Sae FairLines On Fergusson, The PoetThe Weary Pund O' TowWhen She Cam' Ben She BobbedScroggam, My DearieMy Collier LaddieSic A Wife As…

All-CFL Team

The All-CFL team as selected by a Football Writers of Canada panel. Holdovers from the 1995 team are in bold type.PosOffensePosDefenseWRJoe Rogers, Ott.EGrant Carter, Mon.WREddie Brown, Edm.…

Brewer's: Bail

(French, bailler). To deliver up. Common bail or bail below. A bail given to the sheriff, after arresting a person, to guarantee that the defendant will appear in court at any day and…

Brewer's: Barnwell

(George) The chief character in a prose tragedy, so called, by George Lillo. He was a London apprentice, who fell in with a wanton in Shoreditch, named Sarah Millwood, whom he visited,…

AFC East

1999 NFL Preview AFC East • NFC East AFC Central • NFC Central AFC West • NFC West New York Jets - Well that didn't take long, did it? In just two seasons, coach Bill Parcells took a team…

Brewer's: Lamia

A female phantom, whose name was used by the Greeks and Romans as a bugbear to children. She was a Libyan queen beloved by Jupiter, but robbed of her offspring by the jealous Juno; and in…