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Christmas Traditions

Find information about customs for the Christmas season, including trees, Santa Claus, holly, mistletoe, and more Related Links Advent Boxing Day Christmas Price Index Festivus…

1987 College Football Recap

Final AP Top 20 Bowl Games with Top 20 Teams Div. 1–A Conference Champs Heisman Trophy Voting Other Major Award Winners Consensus All-America Team For the second year…

1993 Radio & Records All-Time Charts

1993 Radio & Records All-Time ChartsAC“Love Is” Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight (Giant/Reprise)“Tell Me What You Dream” Restless Heart featuring Warren Hill (RCA)“Forever in Love”…

sorghum

(Encyclopedia) sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum bicolor) of the family Poaceae (grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and…

Chaplin, Charlie

(Encyclopedia) Chaplin, Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), 1889–1977, English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, b. London. Chaplin began on the music-hall stage and then…

fair trade

(Encyclopedia) fair trade, a trading arrangement intended to provide more equitable international trade by creating better conditions for disadvantaged or marginalized producers of goods. Fair trade…

Brewer's: Grotesque

(2 syl.) means in “Grotto style.” Classical ornaments so called were found in the 13th century in grottoes, that is, excavations made in the baths of Titus and in other Roman buildings.…

Brewer's: Canoe'

(2 syl.). A boat. (Spanish, canóa, a canoe; Dutch, cano; German, kahn, a boat; Old French, cane, a ship, and canot, a boat; Latin, canna, a hollow stem or reed; our cane, can = a jug;…

Brewer's: Cloud

Clouds He is in the clouds In dreamland, entertaining visionary notions; having no distinct idea about the matter in question. He is under a cloud. Under suspicion, in disrepute. To blow…

Brewer's: Cloven foot

To show the cloven foot, i.e. to show a knavish intention, a base motive. The allusion is to Satan, represented with the legs and feet of a goat; and, however he might disguise himself, he…