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Brewer's: Twa Dogs

of Robert Burns, perhaps suggested by the Spanish Colloguio de Dos Perros, by Cervantes. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TwangdilloTutivillus A B C D E…

Hughes, Howard Robard

(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Howard Robard, 1905–76, U.S. business executive, b. Houston. As a young man he inherited (1925) the patent rights to an oil tool drill, which, manufactured by the Hughes Tool…

Saarinen, Eero

(Encyclopedia) Saarinen, EeroSaarinen, Eeroāˈrō säˈrĭnĕn [key], 1910–61, Finnish-American architect, grad. Yale (B.A., 1934), became an American citizen in 1940; son of Eliel Saarinen. Saarinen's…

Ruanda-Urundi

(Encyclopedia) Ruanda-UrundiRuanda-Urundir&oomacr;änˈdä-&oomacr;r&oomacr;nˈdē [key], former colonial territory, central Africa, now divided between the independent states of Rwanda and…

Pygmy

(Encyclopedia) Pygmy or PigmyPigmyboth: pĭgˈmē [key], term used for dark-skinned people who live in equatorial rain forests and average less than 59 in. (150 cm) in height. Some studies make a…