Search

Search results

Displaying 21 - 30

Home Run Records

The Question: Which baseball players have hit four home runs in one game, and when did they do it? The Answer: Fifteen Major League Baseball…

home economics

(Encyclopedia) home economics, study of homemaking and the relation of the home to the community. Formerly limited to problems of food (nutrition and cookery), clothing, sewing, textiles, household…

Home Rule

(Encyclopedia) Home Rule, in Irish and English history, political slogan adopted by Irish nationalists in the 19th cent. to describe their objective of self-government for Ireland. Escalating…

home schooling

(Encyclopedia) home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: At Home

by EmilyDickinsonVIIPossessionAt Home At Home The night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear. The wind pursued the…

Witter Bynner: Hills of Home

Hills of HomeWitter BynnerName me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For…

Peter Pan: The Happy Home

The Never Bird Wendy's Story The Happy Home One important result of the brush [with the pirates] on the lagoon was that it made the redskins their friends. Peter had saved Tiger…

Peter Pan: The Return Home

"Hook or Me this Time" When Wendy Grew Up The Return Home By three bells that morning they were all stirring their stumps [legs]; for there was a big sea running; and Tootles, the bo'…

The Hungry Stones: The Home-Coming

by Rabindranath Tagore Once There Was a KingMy Lord, the BabyThe Home-Coming Phatik Chakravorti was ringleader among the boys of the village. A new mischief got into his head. There…