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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
(Encyclopedia) Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896–1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928, when she moved to the Florida backwoods,…William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act III, Scene V
Scene VA HeathThunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HecateFirst WitchWhy, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.HecateHave I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? How did you…William Shakespeare: Henry V, Act IV
Act IVPrologueEnter ChorusChorusNow entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp through the foul womb of…William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act III
Act IIIPrologueEnter GowerGowerNow sleep y-slaked hath the rout; No din but snores the house about, Made louder by the o'er-fed breast Of this most pompous marriage-feast. The cat, with eyne…William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III
Act IIIScene IThe wood. Titania lying asleepEnter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, and StarvelingBottomAre we all met?QuincePat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our…Menzel, Donald Howard
(Encyclopedia) Menzel, Donald Howard, 1901–76, American astrophysicist, b. Florence, Colo. From 1926 to 1932 he was with the Lick Observatory in Calif. In 1932 he joined the faculty at Harvard, where…Neopaganism
(Encyclopedia) Neopaganism, polytheistic religious movement, practiced in small groups by partisans of pre-Christian religious traditions such as Egyptian, Greek, Norse, and Celtic. Neopagans fall…Lagoon Nebula
(Encyclopedia) Lagoon Nebula, bright, diffuse nebula in the southern constellation Sagittarius; cataloged as M8 or NGC 6526. It is visible to the naked eye and has an angular area larger than that of…Dove, Arthur Garfield
(Encyclopedia) Dove, Arthur GarfieldDove, Arthur Garfielddŭv [key], 1880–1946, American painter, b. Canandaigua, N.Y. Early in his career he did commercial illustration in New York City. Following a…quadrature
(Encyclopedia) quadrature, in astronomy, arrangement of two celestial bodies at right angles to each other as viewed from a reference point. If the reference point is the earth and the sun is one of…Trending
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