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Mound Builders
(Encyclopedia) Mound Builders, in North American archaeology, name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to…Modern Pentathlon
First Olympic Appearance: 1912 (men); 2000 (women) by Mike Morrison and Mark Zurlo Did You Know? American George Patton (yes, that George Patton) was a strong challenger for the modern…2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…Florence Wilkinson: Students
StudentsFlorence WilkinsonJohn Brown and Jeanne at Fontainebleau — 'T was Toussaint, just a year ago; Crimson and copper was the glow Of all the woods at Fontainebleau. They peered into that…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, September 20, 1805
Day 900 Day 902 Clark, September 20, 1805 Wednesday 20th September 1805 I Set out early and proceeded on through a Countrey as ruged as usial passed over a low mountain into the forks of a…Brewer's: Brown
A copper coin, a penny; so called from its colour. Similarly a sovereign is a “yellow boy.” (See Blunt.) To be done brown. To be roasted, deceived, taken in. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Cyprian Brass
or “æs Cyprium,” copper. Pliny (book xxxiv. c. ii.) says, “in Cypro enim prima æris inventio fuit.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CyprioteCypress A B C…Brewer's: Dam
An Indian copper coin, the fortieth part of a rupee. Hence the expression “Not worth a dam”; similarly “not worth a farthing,” “not worth a rap” (q.v.); “not worth a sou,” “not worth a…Brewer's: Nickel Silver
A mixed metal of copper, zinc, and nickel, containing more nickel than what is called “German silver.” From its hardness it is well adapted for electroplating. (German, nickel, which also…Brewer's: Ostrich Stomachs
Strong stomachs which will digest anything. The ostrich swallows large stones to aid its gizzard, and when confined where it cannot obtain them will swallow pieces of iron or copper,…Trending
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