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History of Climbing Everest
/**/ Our guide to the world's highest peak: those who have climbed it, measured it, written about it, and died because of it. A History of Climbing Everest A mountaineering history…Panda Babies Offer Hope
New arrivals for an endangered species by Holly Hartman Announcing: Panda Babies! Born: twins, August 3; cub, August 6; twins and cub, August 8; twins, August 10 Homes: Beijing Zoo and Wolong…Walt Whitman: Song at Sunset
Song at SunsetSplendor of ended day floating and filling me, Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past, Inflating my throat, you divine average, You earth and life till the last ray gleams I…Baron Munchausen: The Baron relates his adven...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron is made a prisone... Bathes in the Mediterranean... The Baron relates his adven... The Baron relates his adventures on a voyage to North America…Charles Pinckney: A Steady and Open Republican
A Steady and Open RepublicanCharles PinckneyMonday, May 5, 1788Mrs. Timothy The enclosed,[23] copied from a paper sent me by a friend, seems so peculiarly adapted to our present situation,…Brewer's: Blue Wonder
(A). The German Blaues Wunder, which means “a queer story,” as Du sollst dein blaues wunder schen, You will be filled with amazement (at the queer story I have to relate). A “blue wonder”…Brewer's: Musits
or Musets. Gaps in a hedge; places through which a hare makes his way to escape the hounds. The many musits through the which he goes Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shakespeare:…Brewer's: Hibernia
A variety of Ierne (Ireland). Pliny says the Irish mothers feed their babes with swords instead of spoons. While in Hibernia's fields the labouring swain, Shall pass the plough o'er skulls…Brewer's: Margin
In all our ancient English books, the commentary is printed in the margin. Hence Shakespeare: “His face's own margent did quote such amazes.” Love's Labour's Lost, ii. 1. “I knew you…Brewer's: Marphisa
(in Orlando Furioso). Sister of Rogero, and a female knight of amazing prowess. She was brought up by a magician, but, being stolen at the age of seven, was sold to the king of Persia. The…Trending
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