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Brewer's: Mother

Mother and Head of all Churches. So is St. John Lateran of Rome called. It occupies the site of the splendid palace of Plantius Lateranus, which escheated to the Crown from treason, and…

Sara Teasdale: "My Heart Is Heavy"

"My Heart Is Heavy"My heart is heavy with many a song Like ripe fruit bearing down the tree, But I can never give you one — My songs do not belong to me.Yet in the evening, in the dusk…

Sara Teasedale: Come

ComeCome, when the pale moon like a petal Floats in the pearly dusk of spring, Come with arms outstretched to take me, Come with lips pursed up to cling.Come, for life is a frail moth…

Animal Hall of Fame

Land mammal: African elephants weigh up to 14,000 pounds and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day! Their trunks contain as many as 100,000 different muscles. Marine mammal: The blue whale…

pollination

(Encyclopedia) pollination, transfer of pollen from the male reproductive organ (stamen or staminate cone) to the female reproductive organ (pistil or pistillate cone) of the same or of another…

Louise Imogen Guiney: Of Joan's Youth

Of Joan's YouthLouise Imogen GuineyI would unto my fair restore A simple thing: The flushing cheek she had before! Out-velveting No more, no more, On our sad shore, The carmine grape, the…

The Koran/Sura CI — The Blow

Sura CI — The BlowMecca — 8 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful THE BLOW! what is the Blow? Who shall teach thee what the Blow is? The Day when men shall be like…