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Brewer's: Stain

A contraction of distam. (Latin, dis-tingere, to discolour.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Stalking-horseStagirite A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…

Theodosia Garrison: Stains

StainsTheodosia GarrisonThe three ghosts on the lonesome road Spake each to one another, "Whence came that stain about your mouth No lifted hand may cover?" "From eating of forbidden fruit…

Kidman, Nicole

(Encyclopedia) Kidman, Nicole (Nicole Mary Kidman), 1967–, Australian actress, b. Honolulu, Hawaii. She began acting on television as a teenager in Australia, then starred in the film Dead Calm (1989…

perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances

(Encyclopedia) perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of several thousand synthetic organic chemical compounds made up of a chain of carbon atoms bonded to fluorine atoms. PFAS…

Roth, Philip

(Encyclopedia) Roth, Philip (Philip Milton Roth), 1933–2018, American author, one of the most important novelists of the 20th cent., b. Newark, N.J., B.A. Bucknell Univ., 1954, M.A. Univ. of Chicago…

Gram's stain

(Encyclopedia) Gram's stain, laboratory staining technique that distinguishes between two groups of bacteria by the identification of differences in the structure of their cell walls. The Gram stain…

human

(Encyclopedia) human: see anthropology; human evolution; race.

Human Error

A Bug's Life's Flick was only one in a plague of penned and pixelated protagonists to hit the box office. DreamWorks' Prince of Egypt is the latest. Related Links The Movies of 1998There's…

Brewer's: Humanities

or Humanity Studies. Grammar, rhetoric, and poetry, with Greek and Latin (literæ humaniores); in contradistinction to divinity (literæ divinæ). “The humanities ... is used to designate…

Human Traffic

Director/Writer:Justin KerriganMiramax; R; 84 minutesRelease:5/00Cast:John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes Human Traffic, the debut movie written and directed by Welsh filmmaker…