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Brewer's: Happy as a King

This idea of happiness is wealth, position, freedom, and luxurious living; but Richard II. says a king is “Woe's slave” (iii. 2). On the happiness of kings, see Shakespeare: Henry V., iv.…

Brewer's: Clak-ho-haryah

At Fort Vancouver the medium of intercourse is a mixture of Canadian-French, English, Indian, and Chinese. An Englishman goes by the name of Kint-shosh, a corruption of King George; an…

Brewer's: Clan-na-Gael

(The). An Irish Fenian organisation founded in Philadelphia in 1870, and known in secret as the “United Brotherhood”; its avowed object being to secure “the complete and absolute…

Brewer's: Clorinda

(in Jerusalem Delivered) A female knight who came from Persia to oppose the Crusaders, and was appointed by Aladine leader of all the Pagan forces. Tancred fell in love with her, but not…

hydrothermal vent

(Encyclopedia) hydrothermal vent, crack along a rift or ridge in the deep ocean floor that spews out water heated to high temperatures by the magma under the earth's crust. Some vents are in areas of…

paleontology

(Encyclopedia) paleontologypaleontologypāˌlēəntŏlˈəjē [key] [Gr.,= study of early beings], science of the life of past geologic periods based on fossil remains. Knowledge of the existence of fossils…

Connie Hines

Connie Hines played Carol Post, the wife of horse whisperer Wilbur Post in the 1960s TV sitcom Mister Ed. The silly comedy ran on the CBS network from 1961 to 1966. The setup: Ed was a cranky…

Walt Whitman: A Song of Joys

A Song of JoysO to make the most jubilant song! Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.O for the voices of animals—O for the…

The Quiet Room

Director/Writer: Rolf de HeerDirector of Photography:Tony ClarkEditor:Tania NehmeMusic:Graham TardifProduction Designers:Fiona PatersonProducers:Domenico Procacci and Rolf de HeerFine Line;…