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Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverMornings on Horseback, David McCulloughPaperbackWalter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald SteelChildren's Books, FictionHardcoverWestmark, Lloyd…Brewer's: Pumpernickel
Brown George or rye-bread used by Westphalian peasants. His Transparency of Pumpernickel. So the Times satirised the minor German princes, “whose ninety men and ten drummers constituted…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: Excise
(2 syl.) means literally, a coupon, or piece cut off (Latin, excido). It is a toll or duty levied on articles of home consumption—a slice cut off from these things for the national purse…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…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…Jupiter
Jovian MoonsThe Magnetosphere of Jupiter Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system—a gaseous world as large as 1,300 Earths. Its equatorial diameter is 88,736 mi (142,800 km), while…May 2009 Current Events: Business/Science News
U.S. News | World News Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of May 2009. FDA Warns of Danger of Diet Drug Hydroxycut, Suggests Stopping Use (May 1): The Food and…J - M
William JaggardThomas JamesJeremiah Whipple JenksGeorg JensenNicolas Jenson William Stanley JevonsSteve JobsJohn of SpeyerEldridge Reeves JohnsonEmory Richard JohnsonHoward JohnsonTom Loftin…Federalist No. 40
No 39 No 41 The Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained From the New York Packet.Friday, January 18, 1788.Madison To the People of…Trending
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