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Weather: Telling What's Next

Telling What's NextWeatherOn Another FrontMass AppealPutting Up a FrontFrontal AttackStorms on the FrontTelling What's Next Much of the art of weather forecasting focuses on understanding the…

Darius Dodge HARE, Congress, OH (1843-1897)

HARE Darius Dodge , a Representative from Ohio; born near Adrian, Seneca County, Ohio, January 9, 1843; attended the common schools; entered the military service as a private in the Signal Corps…

Brewer's: Hard as the Nether Millstone

Unfeeling, obdurate. The lower or “nether” of the two millstones is firmly fixed and very hard; the upper stone revolves round it on a shaft, and the corn, running down a tube inserted in…

Thomas Fielder BOWIE, Congress, MD (1808-1869)

BOWIE Thomas Fielder , a Representative from Maryland; born in Queen Anne, Prince George's County, Md., April 7, 1808; attended Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's County, Md., and Princeton…

Hudson, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Hudson, river, c.315 mi (510 km) long, rising in Lake Tear of the Clouds, on Mt. Marcy in the Adirondack Mts., NE N.Y., and flowing generally S to Upper New York Bay at New York City;…

Franconia

(Encyclopedia) FranconiaFranconiafrăngkōˈnēə [key], Ger. Franken, historic region and one of the five basic or stem duchies of medieval Germany, S Germany. The region was included in the Frankish…