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Brewer's: Bird's-eye View
A mode of perspective drawing in which the artist is supposed to be over the objects delineated, in which case he beholds them as a bird in the air would see them. A general view. Source…Brewer's: Birmingham Poet
John Freeth, who died at the age of seventy-eight in 1808. He was wit, poet, and publican, who not only wrote the words and tunes of songs, but sang them also, and sang them well. Source…Brewer's: Clodhopper
A farmer, who hops or walks amongst the clods. The cavalry call the infantry clodhoppers, because they have to walk instead of riding horseback. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Brewer's: Cock of the North
The Duke of Gordon. So called on a monument erected to his honour at Fochabers, in Aberdeenshire. (Died 1836.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cock of the…Movies and Film: The Five Basic Techniques of Camera Movement
The Five Basic Techniques of Camera MovementMovies and FilmFilm: Camera MovementTracking the History of Camera MovementThe Five Basic Techniques of Camera MovementThe Camera Moves in Relation to…The Song of Hiawatha: The Son of the Evening Star
Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast Blessing the Cornfields The Son of the Evening Star Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded…Coleridge: At Nether Stowey
The BeginningsThe Rest of the StoryAt Nether Stowey The Stowey period was the blossoming time of Coleridge's genius. All the poems in this volume except the last four, and besides these "…Kaushitaki-Upanishad: Second Adhyâya
Second Adhyâya 1. Prâna (breath) is Brahman, thus says Kaushitaki. Of this prâna, which is Brahman, the mind (manas) is the messenger, speech the housekeeper, the eye the guard, the…Timeline: Famous Firsts in Space Exploration
Image of Pluto sent back by New Horizons. Source: NASA Here are dates of important firsts in space exploration 1958 1963 1975 1981 1985 1990…Under the Umbrella
Under the UmbrellaWhile Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying…Trending
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