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Brewer's: Columbus
His signature was- S. i.e., Servidor S. A. S. Sus Altezas Sacras X. M. Y. Jesus Maria Isabel Xto. FERENS Christo-pher El Almirante El Almirante. In English, “Servant- of their Sacred…Brewer's: Diddle
(To). To cheat in a small way, as “I diddled him out of ...” Edgar Allan Poe has an article on the art of “Diddling.” Rhyming slang is very common. (See Chivy.) Fiddle and diddle rhyme. “…Brewer's: White Rose
The House of York, whose emblem it was. The White Rose. Cardinal de la Pole. (1500-1558.) White Rose of England. So Perkin Warbeck or Osbeck…Chemistry: Boyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is Small
Boyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe…Chemistry: Titrations
TitrationsChemistryAcids and BasesWhat Are Acids and Bases?Properties of Acids and BasesThe pH ScaleTitrationsBuffers I found a bottle in the stockroom of my lab about a year ago. When I opened it…Brewer's: Feathers
(The). A public-house sign in compliment to Henry VI., whose cognizance it was. Fine feathers make fine birds. (Latin, “Vestis virum facit, ” dress makes the man). The French proverb is “…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
by Robert Burns Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ.,...The Song Of DeathSecond Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry 5th October 1791. Late crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg…Brewer's: Toads
The device of Clovis was three toads (or botes, as they were called in Old French), but after his baptism the Arians greatly hated him, and assembled a large army under King Candat to put…An American Heroine
Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra Over sixty years after Amelia Earhart vanished mysteriously in the Pacific during her attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate the…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Poet's Progress
by Robert Burns Written In Friar's-Carse HermitageElegy On The Year 1788The Poet's Progress A Poem In Embryo Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice…