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Brewer's: Epimenides
(5 syl.). A philosopher of Crete, who fell asleep in a cave when a boy, and did not wake again for fifty-seven years, when he found himself endowed with miraculous wisdom. (Pliny: Natural…Brewer's: Estrildis
or Estrild. Daughter of a German king, and handmaid to the mythical King Humber. When Humber was drowned in the river that bears his name, King Locrin fell in love with Estrildis, and…Brewer's: Eyre
Justices in Eyre. A corruption of “Justices in itinere.” At first they made the circuit of the kingdom every seven years, but Magna Charta provided that it should be done annually.…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.…Congress of the United States
(Encyclopedia) Congress of the United States, the legislative branch of the federal government, instituted (1789) by Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which prescribes its…Plymouth Colony
(Encyclopedia) Plymouth Colony, settlement made by the Pilgrims on the coast of Massachusetts in 1620. After several years the colonists could no longer be restrained from settling on the more…January 2016 Current Events: U.S. News
World News | Business News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of January 2016.…Baron Munchausen: An interesting account of t...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe Pays a visit during the sie...The Frolic An interesting account of t... An interesting account of the Baron's ancestors-A quarrel relative to the spot…Women's Suffrage and the Constitution: Appendix B
Appendix AAppendix B(In the table below, the 36 male suffrage states are grouped under classifications which represent, as far as can be represented in a table, the various degrees of…James Winthrop: Agrippa XV
Agrippa XVJames Winthrop22 January 1788by James WinthropTo the Massachusetts Convention.Gentlemen, Truly deplorable, in point of argument, must be that cause, in whose defence persons of…Trending
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