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From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of others
From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of othersEt Properare Meum Clamant, e Turre Propinqua, Obstreperae Campanae Aliorum in Funere,…Everest Trivia
Amaze your climbing friends! Stump the Sherpas! Little known facts about Everest by Borgna Brunner A view of Everest from Dudh Kosi, the highest river in the world. (Source: Nelson Chenkin)…The Pivot of Civilization: Principles and Aims of the ABCL
by Margaret Sanger Woman and the Future Principles and Aims of the American Birth Control League The complex problems now confronting America as the result of the practice of reckless…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Sensitive Plant Part 2
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Part 1 Part 3 Part 2 There was a Power in this sweet place, An Eve in this Eden; a ruling Grace Which to the flowers, did they waken or dream, Was as God is to the…Brewer's: Cabbage
It is said that no sort of food causes so much thirst as cabbage, especially that called colewort. Pausanias tells us it first sprang from the sweat of Jupiter, some drops of which fell on…Brewer's: Cecilia
(St.). A Roman lady who underwent martyrdom in the third century. She is the patron saint of the blind, being herself blind; she is also patroness of musicians, and “inventor of the organ…Brewer's: Chrisom
or Chrism signifies properly “the white cloth set by the minister at baptism on the head of the newly anointed with chrism”— i.e. a composition of oil and balm. In the Form of Private…Brewer's: Soul
The Moslems fancy that it is necessary, when a man is bow-strung, to relax the rope a little before death occurs to let the soul escape. The Greeks and Romans seemed to think that the soul…Brewer's: Popinjay
A butterfly man, a fop; so called from the popinjay or figure of a bird shot at for practice. The jay was decked with parti-coloured feathers so as to resemble a parrot, and, being…Brewer's: Walker
a proper name, is generally supposed to be $$$, a fuller, but the derivation of ancient names from trades is to be received with great caution. It is…Trending
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