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Brewer's: Geneva Bible
The English version in use prior to the present one; so called because it was originally printed at Geneva (in 1560). Geneva Bible (The). The wine cup or beer pot. The pun is on Geneva…Brewer's: Geneva Courage
Pot valour; the braggadocio which is the effect of having drunk too much gin. Gin is a corrupt contraction of Geneva, or, rather, of genièvre. The juniper-berry at one time used to flavour…Brewer's: Sice
(1 syl.). A sizing, an allowance of bread and butter. “He'll print for a sice.” In the University of Cambridge the men call the pound loaf, two inches of butter, and pot of milk allowed…Brewer's: Rumolt
Gunther's chief cook. Sore toiled the chief cook, Rumolt; ah! how his orders ran Among his understrappers! how many a pot and pan, How many a mighty cauldron rattled and rang again! They…Intermediate-Level Science Projects: What Materials Make the Best Crystals?
What Materials Make the Best Crystals?Intermediate-Level Science ProjectsChemistryCan You Be a Human Battery?What Materials Make the Best Crystals? Growing crystals isn't difficult, and it makes a…Carnivorous Plants
Flipping the food chain Venus's flytrap Most carnivorous plants eat flying, foraging, or crawling insects. Those that live in or around water capture very small aquatic prey like mosquito…Walt Whitman: A Song of Joys
A Song of JoysO to make the most jubilant song! Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.O for the voices of animals—O for the…Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Fifth Edition
First Edition Fifth Edition WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, January 9, 1806
Day 1130 Day 1132 Lewis, January 9, 1806 Friday January 9th 1806. Our men are now very much engaged in dressing Elk and Deer skins for mockersons and cloathing. the deer are extreemly…The World's Most Notorious Despots, Part 1
The World's Most Notorious Despots by Borgna Brunner Top Ten Despots TamerlaneIvan the TerribleRobespierreJoseph StalinAdolph HitlerMao ZedongFrancois DuvalierNicolae CeausescuIdi…Trending
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