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Brewer's: Sound Dues
A toll or tribute which was levied by the king of Denmark on all merchant vessels passing through the Sound. (Abolished 1857.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…October 2016: FCC Fines Comcast $2.3 Million
World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of October 2016. 1. Police Kill Black Man in L.A. 2. FBI Announces Arrest of NSA…U.S. News: Movie Theater Shootings in Colorado Shocks the Nation
Major U.S. news stories, from the Presidential Election to the Chicago Teachers' Strike The Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, location of the shootings Photo…2002 Tour de France Winners
The 89th Tour de France (July 6-28) ran 20 stages plus a prologue, covering 2,050 miles starting in Luxembourg, passing through the Alps and Pyrenees in France and finishing on the Avenue des Champs…Brewer's: Grig
Merry as a grig. A grig is the sand-eel, and a cricket. There was also a class of vagabond dancers and tumblers who visited ale-houses so called. Hence Levi Solomon, alias Cockleput, who…Brewer's: Clergy
The men of God's lot or inheritance. In St. Peter's first epistle (ch. v. 3) the Church is called “God's heritage” or lot. In the Old Testament the tribe of Levi is called the “lot or…Brewer's: Comazants
Called St. Elmo fires by the French, Castor and Pollux by the Romans. A celestial light seen occasionally to play round mast-heads, etc. (Latin, coma, hair.) Virgil makes good use of this…Brewer's: Salic Law
The law so called is one chapter of the Salian code regarding succession to salic lands, which was limited to heirs male to the exclusion of females, chiefly because certain military…1982 National Book Awards
Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverMornings on Horseback, David McCulloughPaperbackWalter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald SteelChildren's Books, FictionHardcoverWestmark, Lloyd…Trending
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