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A brief history of Oktoberfest by Elissa Haney Fanciful horses at the annual Oktoberfest festival in Munich, Germany Dates for Oktoberfest 2012: Sept. 15 - Sept. 30 2013: Sept. 21…Sailing
First Olympic Appearance: 1900 by Gerry Brown and Mark Zurlo Did You Know? Boats that come in contact with a buoy out on the race course must do a 360, sailing around the buoy in a…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse
by Robert Burns A New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockThe Wounded HareSketch In Verse Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,…Entrepreneur--Vice President of Technology
John Hutchinson Tell us about your work---what do you do? The company I work for develops, installs, and manages private television networks for health clubs. Our…Same-Sex Marriage Legislation in the U.S.
Same-sex marriage legislation in the U.S. by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Vermont Rep. Bill Lippert, the only openly gay lawmaker in the House, speaks about the same sex union bill on…Brewer's: Ithacensian Suitors
(The). The suitors of Penelope (4 syl.), wife of Ulysses, King of Ithaca. While Ulysses was absent, many suitors presented themselves to Penelope, affirming that Ulysses was certainly dead…Frequently Misspelled Words
The Most Common Misspellings English spelling can get rather tricky. It used to be much harder--the English language changed a lot after the Middle Ages in an event called the Great Vowel Shift.…Brewer's: Dog-Latin
Pretended or mongrel Latin. An excellent example is Stevens' definition of a kitchen: As the law classically expresses it, a kitchen is “camera necessaria pro usus cookare; cum saucepannis…Brewer's: Ell
(Anglo-Saxon eln, an ell). It is said that the English ell was the length of Henry I.'s arm, but the ordinary length of a man's arm is about a yard. Give him an inch, and he'll take an…Brewer's: Marriages are Made in Heaven
This does not mean that persons in heaven “marry and are given in marriage,” but that the partners joined in marriage on earth were foreordained to be so united. As the French proverb more…Trending
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