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1997 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Fiction: The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin)General Nonfiction: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Biography or…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Z
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Zabian Zacocia Zadkiel Zadoc Zakarija ibn Muhammed Zakkum Zal Zanes Zanoni…Benét, William Rose (Benét)
Benét, William Rose (Benét)[1886-1950](2)Born at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Harbor, Feb. 2, 1886. Graduated at the Academy of Albany, N.Y., in 1904, and took the degree of Ph.B. from the Sheffield…Plundering the Past: Restoring the Garden of Perfect Brightness
The Chinese government brings a series of broze animal heads home by David Johnson Related Links Plundering the Past: IntroGlossary of Art MovementsAlmanac: ArtLaw Enforcement & Crime In May…planetarium
(Encyclopedia) planetarium, optical device used to project a representation of the heavens onto a domed ceiling; the term also designates the building that houses such a device. A modern planetarium…John Keats: Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
by John Keats Bards of passion and of mirthRobin HoodLines on the Mermaid Tavern Souls of poets dead and gone, What elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epistle To Hugh Parker
by Robert Burns The Chevalier's LamentOf A' The Airts The Wind Can BlawEpistle To Hugh Parker In this strange land, this uncouth clime, A land unknown to prose or rhyme;…The Koran/Sura LXXXV — The Starry
Sura LXXXV — The StarryMecca — 22 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful BY the star-bespangled Heaven![73] By the promised Day! By the witness and the witnessed![74]…lion
(Encyclopedia) lion, large carnivore of the cat family, Panthera leo, found in open country in Africa, with a few surviving in India. Lions have short-haired coats of tawny brown, with the tail…Brewer's: Libra
[the balance ]. One of the twelve signs of the Zodiac (September 22 to October 22), when day and night being weighed would be found equal. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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