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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…Sara Teasedale: Sappho II
Sappho IIOh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep? These long Egyptian noons bend down your head Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee. There, lift your eyes no man has ever kindled, Dark…London Preview
What to expect at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games by Catherine McNiff Olympic StadiumSource: London 2012 Related Links 2012 Summer OlympicsMemorable Olympic MomentsBirth of the…Brewer's: Dog-vane
(A). A cockade. “Dog-vane is a term familiarly applied to a cockade.” —Smyth: Sailors' Word-book. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog-watchDog-star A B C…Brewer's: Black...White
To swear black is white. To persist in an obvious untruth. The French locution, Si vous lui dites blanc, il répondra noir, means, He will contradict what you say point blank. Source:…Brewer's: Ancien Régime
An antiquated system of government. This phrase, in the French Revolution, meant the monarchical form of government, or the system of government, with all its evils, which existed prior to…Brewer's: Argus-eyed
Jealously watchful. According to Grecian fable, Argos had 100 eyes, and Juno set him to watch Io, of whom she was jealous. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Death-meal
(A). A funeral banquet. “Death-meals, as they were termed, were spread in honour of the deceased.” —Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed, chap.7. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Marchaundes Tale
(in Chaucer) is substantially the same as the first Latin metrical tale of Adolfus, and is not unlike a Latin prose tale given in the appendix of T. Wright's edition of Æsop's Fables. (…Brewer's: Marchington
(Staffordshire). Famous for a crumbling short cake. Hence the saying that a man or woman of crusty temper is “as short as Marchington wake-cake.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Trending
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