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A Thousand Acres

Director:Jocelyn MoorhouseWriter:Laura JonesDirector of Photography:Tak FujimotoEditor:Maryann BrandonMusic:Richard HartleyProduction Designer:Dan DavisProducers:Marc Abraham, Steve Golin,…

Saint Lawrence Islands National Park

(Encyclopedia) Saint Lawrence Islands National Park, 1,000 acres (405 hectares), S Ont., Canada, in the Thousand Islands; est. 1904. It includes 17 wooded Canadian islands and some adjacent mainland…

Bears Ears National Monument

(Encyclopedia) Bears Ears National Monument, 201,876 acres (81,696 hectares), SE Utah; est. 2016. Named for prominent twin buttes, the national monument as proclaimed by President Obama was more than…

Brewer's: Acre

A′cre The word “acre,” Old English, æcer, is akin to the Latin ager and German acker (a field). God's acreA cemetery or churchyard. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Acres

A′cres A Bob Acres—i.e., a coward. From Sheridan's comedy called The Rivals. His courage always “oozed out at his fingers' ends.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Katmai National Park and Preserve

(Encyclopedia) Katmai National Park and PreserveKatmai National Park and Preservekătˈmī [key], at the northern end of the Alaska Peninsula on Shelikof Strait, S Alaska, comprising Katmai National…

Brewer's: Thousand

Everyone knows that a dozen may be either twelve or thirteen, a score either twenty or twenty-one, a hundred either one hundred or one hundred and twenty, and a thousand either one…

A Thousand Clowns

By: Don Schlitz Director: Scott Ellis Cast: Joshua Park, Kristen Bell, Linda Purl, Jane Connell, John Christopher Jones, Tommy Hollis, Marshall Pailet, Jim Poulos, Tom Aldredge, John…

Brewer's: Acre-fight

A duel in the open field. The combats of the Scotch and English borderers were so called. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Acre-shotAcre A B C D E F G…

Brewer's: Acre-shot

A land tax. “Acre” is Old English, æcer (land), and “shot” is scot or sceat (a tax). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AcresAcre-fight A B C D E F G H…