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Brewer's: Una Serranilla
[a little mountain song], by Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana, godfather of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. This song, of European celebrity, was composed on a little girl found by the marquis…Brewer's: Sky-blue
Milk and water, the colour of the skies. Its name derision and reproach pursue, And strangers tell of three times skimmed sky-blue. Bloomfield: Farmer's Boy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Felix
a monk who listens to the singing of a milk-white bird for a thousand years, which seemed to him “but a single hour,” so enchanted was he by the song. (Longfellow: The Golden Legend.)…Brewer's: Median Stone
(The). Said to cure blindness, and, if soaked in ewe's milk, to cure the gout. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MedicineMedian Apples A B C D E F G H…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: M
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z M M. B. Waistcoat M.D M.P MS. Mab MacAlpin MacFarlane's Geese MacFlecknoe…Top 10 Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007
Once a year the international medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) releases a list of ten stories that received little…Svetasvatara Upanishad: First Adhyâya
1. The Brahma-students say: Is Brahman the cause? Whence are we born? Whereby do we live, and whither do we go? O ye who know Brahman, (tell us) at whose command we abide, whether in pain or in…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Living or Dead?, II
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIIII Every one knows that, even when there is no sign, life is often secretly present, and may begin again in an apparently dead body. Kadambini was not dead;…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 29, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 28, 1806July 30, 1806July 29, 1806 Tuesday July 29th 1806. Shortly after dark last evening a violent storm came on from N. W. attended with…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: August 4, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark August 3, 1806August 5, 1806August 4, 1806 Monday August 4th 1806. Set out at 4 A.M. this morning. permited Willard and Sergt. Ordway to exchange…Trending
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