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Brewer's: Stewing in their own Gravy
Especially applied to a besieged city. The besiegers may leave the hostile city to suffer from want of food, loss of commerce, confinement, and so on. The phrase is very old, borrowed…Turkey FAQ
Giblets, gobbling, and gizzards Related Links Thanksgiving Day Features Turkey Trivia Presidential Pardon Quiz: Turkey Day A Not-So-Traditional Thanksgiving How Much…Brewer's: Sad Bread
(Latin, pavis gravis). Heavy bread, ill-made bread. Shakespeare calls it “distressful bread”- not the bread of distress, but the panis gravis or ill-made bread eaten by the poor. Source…Brewer's: Sterry
(in Hudibras). A fanatical preacher, admired by Hugh Peters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stewing in their own GravySternhold A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Stick
A composing stick is a hand instrument into which a compositor places the letters to be set up. Each row or line of letters is pushed home and held in place by a movable “setting rule,”…Thanksgiving Quiz: History and Traditions
Whether Thanksgiving for you is a time to be grateful for your family or a chance to fill up on mashed potatoes and gravy (or both), it's an important US holiday. But what do you know about the…Christoph Waltz
Austrian actor Christoph Waltz stole the show and won an Oscar when he played the villain in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 movie Inglourious Basterds. Playing an evil but charming chatterbox -- Nazi…Steve Allen
Steve Allen was the original host of TV's The Tonight Show, but by the end of his career he was more famous for being multi-talented than for any individual achievement. His official website called…1999 Westinghouse Science Talent Search Top Ten Winners
First Place: $40,000 scholarship, Christopher Colin Mihelich, 17, Carmel, Ind., Park Tudor School, for study of properties of polynomials having applications to geometry and combinatorics.…Asian Food Primer: Bengali Food
by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibetPacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…Trending
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