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Fall Film Preview, 1998, Part 4
Pixar hopes for another special-effects coup with A Bug's Life. Adam Sandler portrays another hapless hero in Touchstone's The Water Boy. Colonies of another kind — those inhabited by ants —…Weather: What About the Five-Day Forecast?
What About the Five-Day Forecast?WeatherLet's See How It's DoneNow for the Real WorkGoing Into the Upper AirBring on the MachinesWhat About the Five-Day Forecast? Check out the following figure,…Anatomy and
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Skeleton is an interesting word; big fat…Brewer's: Bride of Abydos
Zuleika, daughter of Giaffir, Pacha of Abydos. As she was never wed, she should be called the affianced or betrothed. (Byron.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Bride of the Sea
Venice; so called from the ancient ceremony of the Doge, who threw a ring into the Adriatic, saying, “We wed thee, O sea, in token of perpetual domination.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Bucentaur
A monster, half-man and half-ox. The Venetian state-galley employed by the Doge when he went on Ascension Day to wed the Adriatic was so called. (Greek, bous, ox; centauros, centaur.)…Brewer's: Naphtha
The drug used by Mede'a for anointing the wedding robe of Glauce, daughter of King Creon, whereby she was burnt to death on the morning of her marriage with Jason. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Bambocciades
(4 syl.). Pictures of grotesque scenes in low life, such as country wakes, penny weddings, and so on. They are so called from the Italian word bamboccio (a cripple), a nickname given to…Brewer's: Best Man
(at a wedding). The bridegroom's chosen friend who waits on him, as the bride's maids wait on the bride. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Best ThingsBest A…Brewer's: Margherit'a di Valois
married Henri the Béarnais, afterwards Henri IV. of France. During the wedding soleminites, Catherine de Medicis devised the massacre of the French Protestants, and Margherita was at a…Trending
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