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Peter Pan: The Happy Home

The Never Bird Wendy's Story The Happy Home One important result of the brush [with the pirates] on the lagoon was that it made the redskins their friends. Peter had saved Tiger…

Coleridge: Part I

Part IIPart I An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard…

Young, La Monte

(Encyclopedia) Young, La Monte, 1935-, American minimalist composer, b. Bern, Id., U.C.L.A. (B.A., 1958). Young’s family relocated several times…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 31, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 30, 1806August 1, 1806July 31, 1806 Thursday July 31st 1806. The rain still continuing I set out early and proceeded on as fast as possible…

mercuric chloride

(Encyclopedia) mercuric chloride or mercury (II) chloride, chemical compound, HgCl2, a white powder of colorless rhombohedral crystals, somewhat soluble in water. It is also called bichloride of…

vireo

(Encyclopedia) vireo, small, migratory songbird of the New World. Some species nest in the United States, but the majority are tropical. Vireos (also called greenlets) range from 4 to 6 1/2 in. (10.2…

Courrèges, André

(Encyclopedia) Courrèges, AndréCourrèges, AndréäNdrāˈ k&oomacr;r-rĕzhˈ [key], 1923–2016, French fashion designer whose designs were especially popular and influential during the 1960s. He worked…

Thibodaux

(Encyclopedia) ThibodauxThibodauxtĭbˈədō [key], city (1990 pop. 14,035), seat of Lafourche parish, SE La., on Bayou Lafourche; inc. 1838. It is the commercial center of an oil, gas, sugarcane, and…

blueprint

(Encyclopedia) blueprint, white-on-blue photographic print, commonly of a working drawing used during building or manufacturing. The plan is first drawn to scale on a special paper or tracing cloth…