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Brewer's: Debateable Land

A tract of land between the Esk and Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland, and for a long time the subject of dispute. This tract of land was the hotbed of thieves and vagabonds.…

Brewer's: Promised Land

or Land of Promise. Canaan; so called because God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that their offspring should possess it. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Return to Never Land

Director:Robin BuddWriter:Temple MathewsWalt Disney Pictures; 72 minutes; GRelease:2/02Voices of:Harriet Owen, Blayne Weaver, Corey Burton Return to Never Land is a crisp, classically…

Edwin Land Biography

Edwin LandBorn: 1909Birthplace: Connecticut Photographic product comprising a rupturable containing carrying a photographic processing liquid—Land developed the first modern light polarizers…

Walt Whitman: To Foreign Lands

To Foreign LandsI heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them…

Walt Whitman: Unnamed Land

Unnamed LandNations ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States, Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and…

Christina Rossetti: Dream Land

Dream LandWhere sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmèd sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her…

Orrick Johns: The Sea-Lands

The Sea-LandsOrrick JohnsWould I were on the sea-lands, Where winds know how to sting; And in the rocks at midnight The lost long murmurs sing.Would I were with my first love To hear the…

Brewer's: Land of Stars and Stripes

(The). The United States of America. The reference is to their national flag. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Land o'the LealLand of Shadows A B C D E…

Brewer's: Woe to Thee, O Land

when thy king is a child. This famous sentence is from Ecclesiastes x. 6. Often quoted in Latin, Voe terris ubi rex est puer. Source:…