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Brewer's: Balfour of Burley

Leader of the Covenanters in Scott's Old Mortality, a novel (1816). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BaliosBalearica Tormenta A B C D E F G H I J K…

Brewer's: Esprit Follet

A bogle which delights in misleading and tormenting mortals. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894EsquireEsprit de Corps A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…

The Hungry Stones: The Victory

by Rabindranath Tagore The Hungry StonesOnce There Was a KingThe Victory She was the Princess Ajita. And the court poet of King Narayan had never seen her. On the day he recited a new…

Exploding Exercise Myths

Getting Americans off the couch and onto their feet could save an estimated 200,000 lives a year, says the surgeon general. Yet most of us are either sedentary or only minimally active.…

1 Corinthians: 15

1 Corinthians Chapter 15 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are…

smoking

(Encyclopedia) smoking, inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco in cigars and cigarettes and pipes; in the 21st cent., vaping, the similar use of e-cigarettes, also has become…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: To Rhea

To RheaThee, dear friend, a brother soothes, Not with flatteries, but truths, Which tarnish not, but purify To light which dims the morning's eye. I have come from the spring-woods, From the…

Earthquake in Taiwan

TaiwanTuesday, September 21, 1999, 1:47 a.m. local time by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Learn earthquake basics in Earthquakes 101. Earthquake epicenter: Nantou and Taichang counties,…