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Women's Suffrage

Saudi women vote for the first time Source: AP When and where did women earn the right to vote? Learn the year in which women's suffrage was granted, organized by year. New Zealand was the…

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio

InfernoParadisoPurgatorioContentsPurgatorio: Canto IPurgatorio: Canto IIPurgatorio: Canto IIIPurgatorio: Canto IVPurgatorio: Canto VPurgatorio: Canto VIPurgatorio: Canto VIIPurgatorio: Canto…

The Divine Comedy: Inferno

PurgatorioInfernoContentsInferno: Canto IInferno: Canto II Inferno: Canto III Inferno: Canto IVInferno: Canto VInferno: Canto VIInferno: Canto VIIInferno: Canto VIIIInferno: Canto IXInferno:…

Tripp on Trial

A key figure in the Clinton Impeachment Scandal may be tried herself. by Elissa Haney Tripp claims she began taping her conversations with Lewinsky for her own protection, as a potential witness…

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso

Purgatorio Six Sonnets on Dante's Divine...ParadisoContentsParadiso: Canto IParadiso: Canto IIParadiso: Canto IIIParadiso: Canto IVParadiso: Canto VParadiso: Canto VIParadiso: Canto…

Brewer's: Touch At

(To). To go to a place without stopping at it. “The next day we touched at Sidon.” - Acts xxvii. 3. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Touch BottomTouch A B…

Brewer's: Venison

Anything taken in hunting or by the chase. Hence Jacob bids Esau to go and get venison such as he loved (Gen. xxvii. 3), meaning the wild kid. The word is simply the Latin venatio (hunting…

Brewer's: Leviathan

The crocodile, or some extinct sea monster, described in the Book of Job (chap. xii.). It sometimes in Scripture designates Pharaoh, King of Egypt, as in Psa. lxxiv. 14, Isa. xxvii. l, and…