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The World's Most Notorious Despots, Part 2
The World's Most Notorious Despots by Borgna Brunner Top Ten Despots TamerlaneIvan the TerribleRobespierreJoseph StalinAdolph HitlerMao ZedongFrancois DuvalierNicolae CeausescuIdi…Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 5
Part 5Will the whole come back then? Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more? Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: January 3, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark January 2, 1806January 4, 1806January 3, 1806 Friday January 3d 1806. At 11 A.M. we were visited by our near neighbours, Chief or Tia, Como-wool…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Living or Dead?, V
by Rabindranath Tagore IVV It is hard to say how Kadambini reached Ranihat. At first she showed herself to no one, but spent the whole day in a ruined temple, starving. When the untimely…Brewer's: Prick the Garter
(See Fast And Loose.) Why, who cries out on pride [dress] That can therein tax any private party? What woman in the city do I name When that I say `the city woman bears The cost of princes…Brewer's: Red-lattice Phrases
Pot-house talk. Red-lattice at the doors and windows was formerly the sign that an alehouse was duly licensed; hence our chequers. In some cases “lattice” has been converted into lettuce,…Brewer's: Brute
in Cambridge University slang, is a man who has not yet matriculated. The play is evident. A “man,” in college phrase, is a collegian; and, as matriculation is the sign and seal of…Brewer's: Cicero
So called from the Latin, cicer (a wart or vetch). Plutarch says “a flat excrescence on the tip of his nose gave him this name.” His real name was (Tullius) Tully. La Bouche de Ciceron.…Aitareya-Aranyaka: Third Aranyaka, Second Adhyâya, Fourth Khanda
Fourth Khanda1. To him the Vedas yield no more milk, he has no luck in what he has learnt (from his Guru); he does not know the path of virtue.2. This has also been declared by a Rishi (Rv. X…Yeats, W. B.
(Encyclopedia) Yeats, W. B. (William Butler Yeats), 1865–1939, Irish poet and playwright, b. Dublin. The greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century…Trending
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