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New Year's Resolutions

  The Big Picture An astonishing 55% of the population is considered overweight or obese — 97 million American adults — according to the new NHLB guidelines. Only 14.4% of the adult population…

New First Pets

Spot, Ernie, and India go to Washington by Holly Hartman This article was posted on February 4, 2000. Socks on the podium in the White House briefing room. The former First Cat belongs to…

Seven New Wonders

World > Structures and Buildings by Amy Fletcher Related Links Great Wall of China Petra Machu Picchu Taj Mahal Colosseum Seven Modern Wonders Seven Modern…

Brewer's: Bran-new

or Brand-new. (Anglo-Saxon, brand, a torch.) Fire new. Shakespeare, in Love's Labour Lost, i. 1, says, “A man of fire-new words.” And again in Twelfth Night, iii. 2, “Fire-new from the…

Brewer's: New Christians

Certain Jews of Portugal, who yielded to compulsion and suffered themselves to be baptised, but in secret observed the Mosaic ceremonies. (Fifteenth century.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: New Jerusalem

The paradise of Christians, in allusion to Rev. xxi. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New ManNew Christians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…

Brewer's: New Man

The regenerated man. In Scripture phrase the unregenerated state is called the old man (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New StyleNew Jerusalem A B C…

Brewer's: New Style

The reformed or Gregorian calendar, adopted in England in September, 1752. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New TestamentNew Man A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: New Testament

The oldest MSS. extant are:- (1) The Codex Sinaiticus , published at the expense of Alexander II. of Russia since the Crimean war. This codex contains nearly the whole of the Old and New…

Brewer's: New World

America; the Eastern Hemisphere is called the Old World. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New Year's DayNew Testament A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…