Search

Search results

Displaying 81 - 90

Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner

ChristabelThe Ancient Mariner The Latin motto is condensed, by omission, from about a page of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus,…

Million-Dollar Math Problem

—By Borgna Brunner After a seven-year, three-billion-mile expedition through the solar system, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft capsule landed in the Arizona desert on Jan. 15, 2006, with an…

Infoplease BBQ Primer

Some BBQ tips Marinades and Sauces For a superbly juicy piece of meat, nothing beats a quality marinade. There are dozens of different ways to marinate pork, beef, and chicken. Try out a few…

The Willow-Wren and the Bear

The Willow-Wren and the Bear Once in summer-time the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said: 'Brother wolf, what bird is…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 19, 1804

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 18, 1804July 20, 1804July 19, 1804 July 19th after breakfast which was on a rosted Ribs of a Deer a little and a little Coffee I walked on…

Coleridge: Part IV

Part IIIPart VPart IV The Wedding-Guest feareth that a Spirit is talking to him; "I Fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As…

Brewer's: Ear

(Anglo-Saxon, eáre.) A deaf ear. One that refuses to listen; as if it heard not. Bow down Thine ear. Condescend to hear or listen. (Ps. xxxi. 2.) By ear. To sing or play by ear means to…

Brewer's: Elohistic

and Jehovistic Scriptures. The Pentateuch is supposed by Bishop Colenso and many others to have been written at two widely different periods, because God is invariably called Elohim in…

Brewer's: Relics

A writer in the Twentieth Century (1892, article ROME) says: “Some of the most astounding relics are officially shown in Rome, and publicly adored by the highest dignitaries of the…