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Brewer's: Perpetual Motion

Restlessness; fidgety or nervous disquiet; also a chimerical scheme wholly impracticable. Many have tried to invent a machine that shall move of itself, and never stop; but, as all…

prison

(Encyclopedia) prison, place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes.…

perpetual-motion machine

(Encyclopedia) perpetual-motion machine, device that would be able to operate continuously and supply useful work, in violation of the laws of thermodynamics. A machine that would produce more energy…

Prisoner of the Mountains

Director: Sergei BodrovWriters: Arif Aliev, Sergei Bodrov and Boris GillerDirector of Photography:Pavel LebeshevEditors:Olga Grinshpun, Vera Kruglova and Alan BarilMusic:Leonid…

On a Political Prisoner

On a Political PrisonerShe that but little patience knew, From childhood on, had now so much A grey gull lost its fear and flew Down to her cell and there alit, And there endured her fingers…

The Spanish Prisoner

Director/Writer: David Mamet Director of Photography: Gabriel Beristain Editor: Barbara Tulliver Music: Carter Burwell Production Designer: Tim Galvin Producer: Jean…

Dartmoor Prison

(Encyclopedia) Dartmoor Prison, English prison, at Princetown, Devonshire, built (1806–9) to house French captives during the Napoleonic Wars. During the War of 1812 many American prisoners were…

Libby Prison

(Encyclopedia) Libby Prison, in Richmond, Va., a Confederate prison for captured Union officers in the American Civil War. It was previously a tobacco warehouse. Living conditions were extremely bad…

Fleet Prison

(Encyclopedia) Fleet Prison, former jail in London, England. Rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, again after the great fire of 1666, and once more after the Gordon riots…

The Devil's Dictionary: Prison

by Ambrose Bierce PRIMATEPRIVATEPRISON -n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - "Stone walls do not a prison make," but a combination of the stone wall,…