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Monster bergs on the loose by Holly Hartman Antarctic icebergs RELATED LINKS See Pictures of B15!AntarcticaNorth Atlantic IcebergsSpotlight on the TitanicIn early 2000, an iceberg covering…2014 World News: Egypt
Court Drops Charges Against Mubarak Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Related Links Egypt Country Profile 2014 Year in Review 2014 News of…Brewer's: Stepney Papers
A voluminous collection of political letters between Mr. Stepney, the British minister, and our ambassadors at various European courts, the Duke of Marlborough, and other public characters…Brewer's: Stylites
or Pillar Saints. By far the most celebrated are Simeon the Stylite of Syria, and Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople. Simeon spent thirty-seven years on different pillars, each loftier…Brewer's: London Bridge built on Woolpacks
In the reign of Henry II. the new stone bridge over the Thames was paid for by a tax on wool. There was a bridge over the Thames in the tenth century. There was a new one of wood in 1014.…Brewer's: Sleeper
(The). Epimenides, the Greek poet, is said to have fallen asleep in a cave when a boy, and not to have waked for fifty-seven years, when he found himself possessed of all wisdom. Rip Van…Brewer's: Sleeping Beauty
From the French La Belle au Bois Dormante, by Charles Perrault (Contes du Temps). She is shut up by enchantment in a castle, where she sleeps a hundred years, during which time an…Brewer's: Alma
(the human soul), queen of “Body Castle,” beset by enemies for seven years (the Seven Ages of Man). The besiegers are a rabble rout of evil desires, foul imaginations, and silly conceits.…Brewer's: Johnson
(Dr. Samuel) lived in Fleet Street—first in Fetter Lane, then in Boswell Court, then in Gough Square, then in the Inner Temple Lane for seven years, then in Johnson's Court (No. 7) for ten…Brewer's: Durandarte
A knight who fell at Roncesvalles, cousin to Montesinos. The tale says he loved Belerma, whom he served seven years, at the expiration of which time he was slain. In his last breath he…Trending
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