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legacy

(Encyclopedia) legacy, bequest by will of personal property, similar in many respects to a gift causa mortis. A legacy ordinarily is distinguished from a devise, which transfers real property by will…

Elvis's Legacy

Is he in the building? by John Gettings Related Links The Best of Elvis Elvis.com (official site) Graceland (virtual tour) Music Timeline 500 Songs That Shaped Rock…

bequest

(Encyclopedia) bequest: see legacy.

Brewer's: Hieroclean Legacy

The legacy of jokes. Hierocles, in the fifth Christian century, was the first person who hunted up and compiled jokes. After a life-long labour he mustered together as many as twenty-eight…

John Donne: The Legacy

The LegacyWhen last I died, and, dear, I die As often as from thee I go, Though it be but an hour ago —And lovers' hours be full eternity— I can remember yet, that I Something did say, and…

Columbus's Unknown Legacy

How food from the Americas revolutionized Europe by David Johnson Related Links Columbus and Other ExplorersJust Where Was Columbus? What would Italian cooking be without the…

Legacy (TV Show)

UPNFriday 8:00–9:00 p.m.Cast:Brett Cullen, Grayson McCouch, Jeremy Grant, Lea Moreno, Sarah Rayne and Ron Melendez Set on a Kentucky ranch in the 1890s, the horse-breeding, tobacco-growing…

Walt Whitman: My Legacy

My LegacyThe business man the acquirer vast, After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure, Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for…

Brewer's: Thumb-nail Legacies

Legacies so small that they could be written on one's thumb-nail. `Tis said, some men may make their wills On their thumb-nails, for aught they can bestow. PeterPindar: Lord B. and his…