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2003 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review. The winners were announced Dec. 4, 2003…

Brewer's: Unicorns

So whale-fishers call narwhals, from the long twisted tusks, often eight feet long. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894UnigenitusU'nicorn A B C D E F G H…

Brewer's: Make the Ice

(To). To near the whale-fishing ground. To make for the ice is to steer in that direction. “About the end of April we neared the fishing ground, or, to be more technical, `made the ice.” C…

2005 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review…

Animal Facts

Homework Center – Frequently Asked Questions Animals Where can I find out all about an animal or insect (e.g. polar bear, dragonfly, kangaroo, blue whale)? What do you call a group of…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 14, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 13, 1806March 15, 1806March 14, 1806 Friday March 14th 1806. This morning we sent a party after the two Elk which Collins killed last…

Long Beach, Calif.

Mayor: Robert Garcia (to June 2018) City Manager: Patrick H. West 2010 census population (rank): 462,257 (36);…

Lewis Carroll: Melancholetta

MelancholettaWith saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed “I fear ’twas wrong Such cheerful words to borrow. Dearest, a sweeter, sadder song I’ll sing to…