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Brewer's: Heads I Win, Tails you Lose
In tossing up a coin, with such an arrangement, the person who makes the bargain must of necessity win, and the person who accepts it must inevitably lose. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Heads of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
The Central Intelligence Agency publishes and updates this online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly. The spelling of the personal names in this directory…Head, Sir Edmund Walker
(Encyclopedia) Head, Sir Edmund Walker, 1805–68, British governor-general of Canada (1854–61), cousin of Sir Francis Bond Head. An Oxford scholar and tutor, he published several books. His success as…Head, Sir Francis Bond
(Encyclopedia) Head, Sir Francis Bond, 1793–1875, British administrator in Canada. A soldier (1811–25) and unsuccessful mining adventurer in South America, he had had little experience to prepare him…rivet
(Encyclopedia) rivet, headed metal pin or bolt whose shaft is passed through holes in two or more pieces of metal, wood, plastic, or other material in order to unite them by forming the plain end…Hilton Head Island (town), SC Census Data
People QuickFactsHilton Head IslandSouth CarolinaPopulation, 2003 estimate 34,4074,147,152Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 1.6%3.4%Population, 2000 33,8624,012,…Brewer's: Off with his Head! So much for Buckingham!
(ColleyCibber: The Tragical History of Richard III., altered from Shakespeare.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Offa's DykeOff the Hooks A B C D E F G…Walt Whitman: As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap CameradoAs I lay with my head in your lap camerado, The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume, I know I am restless…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: 'My Head Is Wild with Weeping'
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: The Lake's MarginFragment: The Vine-ShroudFragment: 'My Head Is Wild with Weeping' Published by W.M. Rossetti, 1870. My head is wild with weeping for a…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLII ("To hang our head")
by EmilyDickinsonRemembranceThe BrainXLII To hang our head ostensibly, And subsequent to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind, Affords the sly presumption That,…