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The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 19, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 18, 1806June 20, 1806June 19, 1806 Thursday June 19th 1806. Our hunters were out very early this morning, they returned before noon with one…

Indonesia's New President

Surprising Upset in Archipelago's First Free Elections By Ricco Villanueva Siasoco This article was posted on October 20, 1999 Newly-elected President Abdurrahman Wahid clasps the hand of rival…

Food-Borne Diseases: Listeria

ListeriaFood-Borne DiseasesIntroductionE. coli 0157:H7CamphylobacterSalmonellaShigellaListeriaTrichinosis Doctors and epidemiologists often overlook Listeria, another food-borne bacterium, as a…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Sunset

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual BeautyThe Sunset There late was One within whose subtle being, As light and wind within some delicate cloud That fades amid the blue noon's…

Brewer's: Coup de Main

(French). A sudden stroke; a stratagem whereby something is effected suddenly. Sometimes called a coup only, as “The coup [the scheme] did not answer.” “London is not to be taken by a coup…

Brewer's: Coup d'Etat

(French) means a state stroke, and the term is applied to one of those bold measures taken by Government to prevent a supposed or actual danger, as when a large body of men are arrested…

Brewer's: Oghams

The alphabet in use among the ancient Irish and some other Celtic nations prior to the ninth century. “The oghams seem to have been merely tree-runes. The Irish regarded the oghams as a…

Brewer's: Twangdillo

the fiddler, lost one leg and one eye by a stroke of lightning on the banks of the Ister. Yet still the merry bard without regret Bears his own ills, and with his sounding shell And comic…