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Steve Fossett, 2005 News

millionaire business executive and adventurer, completed a nonstop 23,000-mile journey around the world in March, making him the first person in the world to do so. He circumnavigated the…

William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Act V, Scene III

Scene IIIAnother part of the fieldEnter Posthumus Leonatus and a British LordLordCamest thou from where they made the stand?Posthumus LeonatusI did. Though you, it seems, come from the fliers…

Brewer's: Flyman's Plot

(The). In theatrical language, means a list of all the articles required by the flyman in the play produced. The flyman is the scene-shifter, or the “man in the flies.” Source:…

Brewer's: Kite

(A), in legal phraseology, is a junior counsel who is allotted at an assize court to advocate the cause of a prisoner who is without other defence. For this service he receives a guinea as…

Amy Lowell: Garden Games

Garden GamesThe tall clock is striking twelve; And the little girls stop in the hall to watch it, And the big ships rocking in a half-circle Above the dial. Twelve o'clock! Down the side…