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Louis V. Ledoux: The Only Way
The Only WayLouis V. LedouxIMemphis and Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, the Nile: Of these your letters told; and I who read Saw loom on dim horizons Egypt's dead In march across the desert, mile on…The Worst United States Man-Made Disasters: Lead Contamination in Picher
Jennie Wood 1. Flint Water Crisis 2. Hurricane Katrina 3. BP Oil Spill 4. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 5. Three Mile Island 6. St. Francis Dam 7. Picher Lead 8.…Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Edward Williams
by Percy Bysshe Shelley RemembranceTo -To Edward Williams Published in Ascham's edition of the "Poems", 1834. There is a copy amongst the Trelawny manuscripts. 1. The serpent is shut out…Brewer's: Luna
An ancient seaport of Genoa, whence the marble quarried in the neighbourhood is called “marmo lunense.” (Orlando Furioso.) Conte di Luna. Garzia, brother of Count Luna, had two sons. One…Brewer's: Fern Seed
We have the receipt of fern seed, we walk invisible (1 Henry IV., act iv. 4). The seed of certain species of fern is so small as to be invisible to the naked eye, and hence the plant was…Brewer's: Leontes
(3 syl.), King of Sicilia, invited his friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, to pay him a visit, and being seized with jealousy, ordered Camillo to poison him. Camillo told Polixenes of the…Brewer's: Assay
or Essay. To take the assay is to taste wine to prove it is not poisoned. Hence, to try, to taste; a savour, trial, or sample. Holinshed says, “Wolsey made dukes and earls serve him of…Brewer's: Pendragon
A title conferred on several British chiefs in times of great danger, when they were invested with dictatorial power: thus Uter and Arthur were each appointed to the office to repel the…Brewer's: Rosamond
(Fair). Higden, monk of Chester, says: “She was the fayre daughter of Walter, Lord Clifford, concubine of Henry II., and poisoned by Queen Elianor, A.D. 1177. Henry made for her a house of…The World's Worst Pollution Problems, 2012
According to the Blacksmith Institute, "this report gives an overview of the range of pollution threats humans face throughout the world." Each…Trending
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