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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Cotter's Saturday Night
by Robert Burns Song-Merry Hae I Been Teethin A HeckleAddress To The DeilThe Cotter's Saturday Night Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq., of Ayr. Let not Ambition mock their useful…Frankfort
(Encyclopedia) Frankfort, city (2020 pop. 28,602), state capital and seat of Franklin co., N central Ky., on both sides of the Kentucky River, in the…Little Bighorn
(Encyclopedia) Little Bighorn, river, c.90 mi (145 km) long, rising in the Bighorn Mts., N Wyo., and flowing north to join the Bighorn River in S Mont. On June 25–26, 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne…vampire
(Encyclopedia) vampire, in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and…Ah Cheng
(Encyclopedia) Ah ChengAh Chengäˈjûng [key], pseud. of Zhong Acheng, 1949–, Chinese writer and painter. His father, the film critic Zhong Dianfei, was forced by the Communist government to sell his…Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(Encyclopedia) Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fraudulent document that reported the alleged proceedings of a conference of Jews in the late 19th cent., at which they discussed plans to overthrow…megalithic monument
(Encyclopedia) megalithic monumentmegalithic monumentmĕgəlĭthˈĭk [key] [Gr.,=large stone], in archaeology, a construction involving one or several roughly hewn stone slabs of great size; it is…Bruce
(Encyclopedia) Bruce, Scottish royal family descended from an 11th-century Norman duke, Robert de Brus. He aided William I in his conquest of England (1066) and was given lands in England. His son…Adam, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Adam, RobertAdam, Robertădˈəm [key], 1728–92, and James Adam, 1730–94, Scottish architects, brothers. They designed important public and private buildings in England and Scotland and…Henry I, king of France
(Encyclopedia) Henry I, c.1008–1060, king of France (1031–60), son and successor of King Robert II. To defend his throne against his mother, his brothers Robert and Eudes, and subsequently against…Trending
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