Search

Search results

Displaying 131 - 140

Jerome County, ID Census Data

Idaho Jerome County, Idaho People QuickFactsJerome CountyIdahoPopulation, 2005 estimate 19,6381,429,096Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 7.1%10.4%Population, 2000 18,…

St. Patrick's Day by the Numbers

Find fun facts about a holiday that now celebrates all things Irish. Related Links St. Patrick's Day: More Dallas than Dublin Ancestry of U.S. Population by Rank Countries of Birth…

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Millay, Edna St. Vincent[1892-1950](3)Born at Camden, Maine, and educated at Vassar College. Before entering college, however, when she was but nineteen years of age, she wrote the poem, "…

Brewer's: Chair of St. Peter

(The). The office of the Pope of Rome, said to be founded by St. Peter, the apostle; but St. Peter's Chair means the Catholic festival held in commemoration of the two episcopates founded…

Brewer's: City of St. Michael

(The). Dumfries, of which city St. Michael is the patron saint. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894City of SaintsCity of Refuge A B C D E F G H I J K…

Brewer's: St. Bees' College

(Cumberland), situated on the bay formed by St. Bees' Head, founded by Dr. Law, Bishop of Chester, in 1816. St. Bees' was so called from a nunnery founded here in 650, and dedicated to the…

Brewer's: St. Cuthbert's Duck

The eider duck. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. DistaffSt. Cecilia A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Brewer's: St. George's Cross

in heraldry, is a Greek cross gules upon a field argent. The field is represented in the Union Jack by a narrow fimbriation. It is the distinguishing badge of the British navy. St. George…

Brewer's: St. John Long

An illiterate quack, who professed to have discovered a liniment which had the power of distinguishing between disease and health. The body was rubbed with it, and if irritation appeared…