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Brewer's: Tulcan Bishops

Certain Scotch bishops appointed by James I., with the distinct understanding that they were to hand over a fixed portion of the revenue to the patron. A tulcan is a stuffed calfskin,…

Brewer's: Tumbledown Dick

Anything that will not stand firmly. Dick is Richard, the Protector's son, who was but a tottering wall at best. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TunTulip…

<i>New Moon</i> Trivia

Learn about the symbolism, origin of names, and other interesting tidbits about New Moon Related Links Twilight Page Twilight Quiz Biography of…

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas wrote the classic adventure novel The Three Musketeers and some of the most famous and popular stories in French literature. Beginning in 1844 he had a string of brilliantly…

Sara Teasdale: The Garden

The GardenMy heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-…

E.E. Cummings

Name at birth: Edward Estlin CummingsWhimsical and experimental, E.E. Cummings was a popular American poet of the early 20th century. Cummings' first published work was his 1922 novel The Enormous…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: From Omar Khayyam

From Omar KhayyamEach spot where tulips prank their state Has drunk the life-blood of the great; The violets yon field which stain Are moles of beauties Time hath slain. Unbar the door, since…

lily

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Wood lily, Lilium philadelphicum lily, common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the…