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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love
by Robert Burns Nithsdale's Welcome HameSuch A Parcel Of Rogues In A NationFrae The Friends And Land I Love Tune-"Carron Side." Frae the friends and land I love, Driv'n by…A. E. Housman: The winds out of the west land blow,
The winds out of the west land blow, My friends have breathed them there; Warm with the blood of lads I know Comes east the sighing air.It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XII ("In lands I never saw")
by EmilyDickinsonThe LoversXIIIXII In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down, Whose bonnets touch the firmament, Whose sandals touch the town, — Meek at whose everlasting…isthmus
(Encyclopedia) isthmusisthmusĭsˈməs [key], narrow neck of land connecting two larger land areas. Since it commands the only land route between two large areas and is on two seas, an isthmus has great…land-grant colleges and universities
(Encyclopedia) land-grant colleges and universities, U.S. institutions benefiting from the provisions of the Morrill Act (1862), which gave to the states federal lands for the establishment of…Ohio Company of Associates
(Encyclopedia) Ohio Company of Associates, organization for the purchase and settlement of lands on the Ohio River, founded at Boston in 1786. Its organizers were a group of New England men, most of…Emancipation, Edict of
(Encyclopedia) Emancipation, Edict of, 1861, the mechanism by which Czar Alexander II freed all Russian serfs (one third of the total population). All personal serfdom was abolished, and the peasants…Polaroid
(Encyclopedia) Polaroid: see Land, Edwin H.inclosure
(Encyclopedia) inclosure or enclosure, in British history, the process of inclosing (with fences, ditches, hedges, or other barriers) land formerly subject to common rights. Such land included fields…Bhave, Vinoba
(Encyclopedia) Bhave, VinobaBhave, Vinobavĭnōbə bäˈvā [key], 1895–1982, Indian religious figure, founder of the Bhoodan Movement. While studying Sanskrit in Benares (Varanasi), he joined Mohandas K.…Trending
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